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Marietta artist Bobby Rosentock creates posters for world-renowned musicians using a printing press. They seek out his art for its antiquated approach.
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The heartfelt enthusiasm from a toddler in a dress with yellow flowers landed Steve Burns the iconic hosting gig, bringing joy to generations of tots. Earlier this spring, they met for the first time.
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Health, Science & Environment
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The Columbus Symphony and CAPA believe new, specific performance spaces are needed because demand for the arts will rise along with projected population growth.
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When the COVID pandemic hit, two friends in southeast Ohio stayed in touch through poetry. Now, they've published a book of their correspondences.
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Classical 101The Abeo Quartet is a rising star with a mission to perform the standard string quartet repertoire and works by underrepresented composers, including composers of color and women. Watch as the quartet performs the sublime first movement of Fanny Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in E-flat in WOSU Public Media’s Performance Studio.
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Cincinnati muralist William Rankins Jr. is losing his work to redevelopment.
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World champion ice carver Aaron Costic found his passion creating with ice. More than 100 sculptures by him and his team are on view this weekend at the annual Medina Ice Festival in Northeast Ohio.
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Events surrounding the solar eclipse, International Women's Day and several anniversaries will fill the museum this year.
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Classical 101A new recording, American Counterpoints, sets two undercelebrated African American composers in counterpoint and brings to light a long-obscured musical masterpiece in its first commercial recording.
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Two decades after the completion of the flood wall, Franklinton is seeing explosive development. Now gentrification threatens to displace the neighborhood's families.
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Of the 15 acts for consideration this year, 10 are on the ballot for the first time. The final list of inductees will be released in April.
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Getting a tattoo is one of the most permanent decisions you can make; it stays with you until you die. But one Ohio company is changing that: preserving tattoos as tributes to last beyond death.
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Don MacRostie has been hand crafting mandolins in southeast Ohio for nearly 50 years.
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The contract is scheduled to take effect on Feb. 5 and will go through June 30, 2026.
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Cleveland Scene music writer Jeff Niesel shares his advice on how to discover more local music in the new year.
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Actors Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan give warm, deeply sympathetic performances as wide-ranging musician Leonard Bernstein and his wife, Felicia Montealegre Cohn, in a biopic directed by Cooper.
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Business & EconomySome in the Columbus film industry say there's less work to go around, while others note steady business that leaves Columbus poised to tackle a new part of the market.
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More concerts and events are scheduled to be announced over the next two weeks.
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Crowded concert halls are still a long way off due to the ongoing pandemic, but the venues that host those crowds are soon to receive financial help from the federal government. Starting April 8, music venues, movie theaters and theater companies can apply for the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant on the U.S. Small Business Administration website.
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Stacks of red tires are due to start popping-up around the city of Akron Thursday in celebration of the new wave band DEVO, as part of an effort to boost the hometown heroes into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Arts leaders from around the state have signed a letter to Ohio lawmakers arguing for expanded public funding of arts and culture. Fred Bidwell, chairman of the Cleveland-based Arts & Culture Action Committee, took that case to the House Finance Committee in Columbus on Thursday. Bidwell is acting as spokesperson for a coalition of over 80 arts and cultural organizations looking to increase the scope of arts funding through an existing cigarette tax in Cuyahoga County, according to a news release from Ohio Citizens for the Arts.
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The Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse is the new home for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies, starting this fall. After more than a year of virtual events across the country, the Rock Hall is looking to break out of a COVID-19-induced prison and return to a live induction event in Cleveland on October 30. Rock Hall president Greg Harris said it will be the sixth time for a hometown induction. “It was here back in ‘97 in a hotel,” he said. “Then, in 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2018, it was held at Cleveland's Public Auditorium.”