Arts Section :: Page 116

• 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?

• New band Kuan defies labels

  By Megan Bachman

  

  Kuan’s brand of experimental instrumental rock music breaks all the rules. More art than entertainment, the local band’s addition to the already-diverse Yellow Springs music scene is rock that’s both highly composed and free jazz-inspired. Recently returned from a 32-day, 30-city nationwide tour and with a new EP album,“Colors”…

• Nonstop presents local stories

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 23, 2010

  Everybody has a story, whose content is subject to interpretation by its teller. In the case of Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute’s newest project, the storytellers are four area artists who have created three installations for “Local Stories — An Oral Histories Project.” The stories they tell are of the residents who live here and form the essence of the local landscape.

• Film tonight on civil rights murders

  By Diane Chiddister

  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.

• Bahnsen’s photos to be honored

  By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 16, 2010

  

  For more than 50 years until his death, a photographer of international stature lived and worked in Yellow Springs. The work of that photographer, Axel Bahnsen, will be honored this weekend with the publication of a new book of his photographs.

• Pottery shop builds wood-fired kiln

  By Megan Bachman

  For more than 40 years, John Bryan Community Pottery has been an educational resource and incubator space for developing potters. Now, the local artists’ cooperative is expanding its well-equipped studio by adding a wood-fired kiln, one of a handful of such kilns in the region.

• Post office mural gets a shine

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  If residents who frequent the U.S. Post Office in Yellow Springs haven’t noticed the mural at the eastern end of the lobby, perhaps it’s because of the grease, grit and grime that has been dulling the paint for the past 70 years.

• 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.

• I’ve got the Blues

  By Aaron ZaremskySeptember 12, 2010

  

  The AACW Blues Fest went off without a hitch last weekend at the Antioch Amphitheater.

• YSKP is no longer just for kids

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 9, 2010

  

  At the height of a YS Kids Playhouse production, when every member of the cast has gathered together at fever pitch to dance and belt out an ardent musical message, there can be a yearning, or even a fleeting sense of jealousy, that kids get to do all the fun stuff. But this fall, adults can have fun too, when YSKP opens up four new dance classes to people of all ages.