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• Buddha home for the holidays

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 22, 2010

  

  Snow Buddha appeared last Thursday, Dec. 16, in front of Brother Bear’s Coffee House.

• 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.

• A little brass in your stocking

  By Aaron ZaremskyDecember 12, 2010

  

  The Yellow Springs Brass! performed their tenth annual Christmas Carol benefit last Saturday afternoon outside the Underdog Cafe. The street concert was to raise money for the Yellow Springs Emergency Welfare Fund. Click here to listen to “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”

• 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.