Media Section :: Page 9

• WYSO to host Ira Glass

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 15, 2010

  

  WYSO will host a personal appearance by Ira Glass on Sunday, May 22 at the Victoria Theatre in Dayton, Ohio.

• YS filmmakers travel to New York

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 5, 2010

  

  Two Yellow Springs filmmakers, Aileen LeBlanc and Jim Klein, will be filming part of a documentary entitled “Take Us Home” in New York City on Monday, Nov. 8.

• Film chronicles small town’s first integrated prom

  By Lauren ShowsOctober 27, 2010

  

  The Little Art Theatre will offer a second free screening of Prom Night in Mississippi on Saturday, Oct. 30, at 4 p.m. The documentary, shot in 2008, follows a group of high school seniors preparing for their first racially-integrated prom.

• Film tracks exotic pet industry

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 30, 2010

  

  Throughout the 1980s on the east side of Hilltop Road at Fairground Road there stood a modest, old house with a conspicuously large metal cage in the back yard. On nice days, passersby who happened to focus beyond the fencing would likely have seen what appeared to be a lion. Was it a pet? Did it live there permanently? Could it escape?

• Film tonight on civil rights murders

  By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 23, 2010

  A documentary on the effects of the 40-year-old murders of three civil rights workers on a Mississippi town will be shown Thursday, Sept. 23, at the Little Art Theater in Yellow Springs.

• Mickunas returns to WYSO

  By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 14, 2010

  

  Vick Mickunas and his popular show “Book Nook” will return to WYSO Public Radio this Friday, Sept. 17, at 1:30 p.m.

• Looking at Yellow Springs through our elders’ eyes

  By Sehvilla MannJuly 22, 2010

  

  In 1999 local filmmaker Patti Dallas produced “A Portrait of Yellow Springs Through the Eyes of Our Elders,” a documentary for which she interviewed 17 individuals aged 75 and older. The elders spoke to themes such as the village’s early history, local resources such as Glen Helen and Antioch College, and the landmarks of Yellow Springs.

• WYSO cleans up at AP awards

  By YS News StaffJune 9, 2010

  

  Local public radio station WYSO racked up ten awards, more than any other public radio station in the state, at the Ohio Associated Press Broadcasters 2010 luncheon in Columbus on Sunday, June 6.

• Local filmmakers to screen works at FilmDayton Festival

  By Megan BachmanMay 13, 2010

  

  More than 20 years ago Jennifer Sharp worked as a janitor at the Little Art Theatre, cleaning the bathrooms and sweeping up popcorn. The 36-year-old is now back as a successful film director to show her first full-length feature.

• WYSO brings StoryCorps

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 22, 2010

  

  When Neenah Ellis was growing up in northern Indiana, she regularly listened to Studs Terkel interview guests on Chicago radio. The legendary oral historian became an inspiration and role model, according to Ellis, who is now general manager of WYSO Public Radio.