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• An ‘Uncle Vanya’ that kids can get

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 2, 2010

  In 1979 a writer and teacher named Phillip Lopate decided to have his fifth- and sixth-grade students at PS 75 in New York City stage a production of Uncle Vanya on Broadway. Thirty years later, one of those students, Sasha Waters Freyer, has made a film, Chekhov for Children.

• Art salon revived in Yellow Springs

  By Megan BachmanNovember 25, 2010

  

  Modeled after the mid-century salon, Erik and Deirdre Owen threw an “art happening” at their home on Grinnell Circle last Saturday night.

• Glen Nature Arts and Crafts Show

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 18, 2010

  

  The 29th annual Glen Helen Association Nature Arts and Crafts Show will take place this Saturday and Sunday at the Glen Helen Building.

• A Wilde night in Victorian England

  By Diane ChiddisterNovember 13, 2010

  

  The YSHS Drama Club presents The Importance of Being Earnest tonight, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m. and tomorrow, Nov. 14, at 2 p.m. at the Mills Lawn gym. The play continues next weekend.

• Dave Greer band and guest pay tribute to Beiderbecke

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 12, 2010

  

  Dave Greer’s Classic Jazz Stompers will perform with Chicago cornetist Andy Schumm at Gilly’s in downtown Dayton on Friday night, Nov. 12, beginning at 8:30 p.m.

• 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.

• Mandolins to play Garcia piece

  By Megan BachmanNovember 4, 2010

  

  In the early 20th century, mandolin orchestras sprung up in Dayton and elsewhere, playing rags, marches, light classical and waltzes with the energetic ting of the uniquely American flatback mandolin. Today the mandolin craze is back, including in Yellow Springs, now home for the six-year-old Dayton Mandolin Orchestra.

• Red Priest pays visit to Mills Lawn School

  By Matt MindeNovember 2, 2010

  

  Mills Lawn School students got an ear- and eyeful of baroque music madness when the world-class ensemble Red Priest performed.

• 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.

• VIDEO – Thrill Yellow Springs and the world

  By Vanessa QueryOctober 24, 2010

  

  On Saturday, Oct. 23, area zombies descended on the Bryan Center gym to dance to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” at the same time that thousands danced it all over the world. “Thrill The World” is an annual worldwide simultaneous dance of “Thriller.”