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• Musical event lifts a town and college

  By Lauren HeatonJune 16, 2011

  

  To have loved and lost is better than the usual alternative, but not quite as good as to have loved, lost and then regained love again — at least according to both 18th century composer Willibald Gluck and the leaders of Antioch College.

• Sticky, off-the-wall art on a wall

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  You can call it art to chew on, or art that’s already been chewed. Whatever you call it, the Traveling Gum Wall is the most recent offbeat community art project by the village’s own Jafagirls, in collaboration with the Yellow Springs Arts Council.

• WYSO wins big at Ohio AP awards

  By YS News StaffJune 15, 2011

  

  Earlier this month, it was announced that WYSO Public Radio news reporters had won seven awards from the Ohio Associated Press for reporting in 2010.

• Local pottery features new work

  By Lauren HeatonJune 13, 2011

  

  Miami Valley Pottery completed the most recent firing of functional ceramic pots in the pottery’s large wood kiln last week.

• New gallery shows eclectic art

  By Sehvilla MannJune 9, 2011

  

  Art aficionados can be expected to embrace a new gallery in the downtown. But the owners of the new Springs Gallery say they also welcome those who know they like art but feel lost when it comes to buying it.

• Kids’ music pioneer performs at MLS

  By Lauren HeatonJune 2, 2011

  Behind all of today’s fun and inspiring music for youth, is one African-American woman who set out with a conga drum in the cafés of Chicago in the 1950s and humbly started a wave of change that, six decades later, she and others are still riding.

• Wheels debuts homegrown sound

  By Megan Bachman

  

  One may not believe that this group of teenagers, Wheels, have played their instruments for just a few years. Now the quintessential homegrown four-piece band has a full-length album to its name.

• Documentary, new series at WYSO this week

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 24, 2011

  

  A new radio documentary on President Obama’s Irish forebears, some of whom moved to the Miami Valley, will be aired on WYSO on Sunday, May 29 at 6 p.m. A new series on changes at Wright Patterson Air Force Base will be aired the week of May 30 on Morning Edition.

• Graffiti in the school yard, with praise

  By Lauren HeatonMay 23, 2011

  

  In an creatively anti-vandalizing way, a group of Mills Lawn students took their spray cans and paint brushes to the school yard this month to repurpose the soccer wall into a work of graffiti art.

• VIDEO: Wheels performs “Sit Down” from their debut album

  By Megan BachmanMay 21, 2011

  

  Local band Wheels performs the song “Sit Down” from their debut album Fields on Fire.