YSU hosts lecture on school voucher, culture wars Josh Cowen, a professor of education policy at Michigan State University, will speak on “School Vouchers, Culture Wars, and Defending the Public Good” at 12:30 p.m., Tuesday at Youngstown State University. His talk will cover a brief ...

Grammy winner Walter Ostanek will be the headliner for the Penn-Ohio Polka Pals Dyngus Day Dance. Monday’s performance will be the day after Ostanek’s 90th birthday. He started playing button diatonic accordion at age 9 and got his first piano accordion three years later. By the time ...

Lit Youngstown has three upcoming opportunities for area writers. Lit Youngstown and the YWCA are holding an open call for poems inspired by artwork made by women for this year’s YWCA Women Artists Show. Poets will receive and respond to three images to inspire one to three poems. The ...

The Spring 2025 Graduating BFA Exhibition opens Friday at the McDonough Museum of Art. The exhibition is an opportunity for students graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Youngstown State University to share the original and innovative discoveries they have made in their ...

NEW YORK — One of the more puzzling live albums of all time came out in 2000. It featured songs from a two-night stand with The Black Crowes and Led Zeppelin icon Jimmy Page. But fans hoping to hear “Hard to Handle” or “She Talks to Angels” were out of luck. Bizarrely, not a single ...

The Pat Travers Band will play the Robins Theatre on July 24. Travers is best known for the classic rock staple “Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights),” which Youngstown boxer Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini used at his fights. He opened for Foghat at the Warren theater in 2022. Tickets range from ...