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• Antioch College | Exhibition honors grunge legend Mia Zapata

  By Guest ContributorNovember 2, 2023

  

  The exhibition is the first-ever retrospective centering Zapata’s visual art and the first time many of these pieces have been shown publicly since their creation in the late 1980s. Zapata is best known for being the lead singer and frontwoman of The Gits.

• Kay Reimers writes Yellow Springs history in ‘How It Happened’

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 12, 2023

  

  In order to understand the identity and character of Yellow Springs, it helps to know something about its history. That’s the guiding principle of local author Kay Reimers’ recently released historical book, “How It Happened: The Creation of Yellow Springs, Ohio.

• Basim Blunt named Eichelberger Center executive director

  By YS News StaffSeptember 30, 2023

  

  Basim Blunt — the host of WYSO’s weekly funk program “Behind the Groove” and a longtime radio producer at the station — was recently named the new executive director of the Eichelberger Center for Community Voices at WYSO.

• Action, laughs and heart in ‘She Kills Monsters’

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 28, 2023

  

  In the upcoming Yellow Springs High School production of “She Kills Monsters,” comedy and drama come together to examine loss through a unique — and for its main character, unexpected — lens: the tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons.

• World House Choir to celebrate a decade of song, social justice

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 19, 2023

  

  The World House Choir — a multicultural and intergenerational musical group whose decade-long repertoire has embraced songs that put forward messages of unity, solidarity and social justice — will perform its 10-year anniversary concerts Thursday–Saturday, Sept. 21–23, at the Foundry Theater.

• New Little Art Theatre manager is old hand

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 18, 2023

  

  Next time you go to the movies, you can join the longtime Yellow Springs resident Caleab Wyant in celebrating his new position at the Little Art if you greet him by his new title: Theater Manager.

• 40 years of Chamber Music in Yellow Springs

  By YS News StaffSeptember 15, 2023

  

  Chamber Music in Yellow Springs, or CMYS, will mark its 40th anniversary this season, which opens Sunday, Sept. 24. Established in 1983, CMYS was founded by a handful of devoted classical music lovers.

• Film director Michael Schultz’s Yellow Springs connection

  By Cheryl Durgans

  

  Renowned film director Michael Schultz, known for iconic 1970s movies “Cooley High” and “Car Wash” and 1980s classics “Krush Groove” and “The Last Dragon,” once directed at the Antioch Area Theater’s summer festival in the ’60s. Arthur Lithgow offered Schultz the job.

• Lights up at the Antioch College Foundry Theater

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 13, 2023

  

  This fall, the Foundry will again be the home to not just one group of artists-in-residence, but three. At the same time, the Foundry is gearing up to launch a full season of programming.

• Channel 5 goes live online

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 7, 2023

  

  During his first several months at the station’s helm, Station Manager Ben Guenther’s guiding mission has been to make Channel 5 accessible to as many of those creative people as possible.