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• ‘The Last Truck’ is Oscar-bound

  By Diane ChiddisterFebruary 4, 2010

  Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert, the village’s most famous filmmakers, will become even more famous next month when they attend the Oscar awards ceremony in Los Angeles as directors of one of the five films nominated in the Best Documentary Short category.

• Short films debut at Little Art

  By Stephanie BeasleyJanuary 14, 2010

  

  Filmmaker and villager Vanessa Query, left, has organized a festival of original short films that will be shown at the Little Art Theatre at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 21. She is shown with Little Art -Executive Director Jenny Cowperthwaite, who is enthusiastic about providing a venue for independent filmmakers.

• YS band rocks through ages

  By Stephanie BeasleyNovember 19, 2009

  The abundance of musicians and music lovers is part of what makes the village unique, and among those bands, one stands out, not only for its music, but also because of its history.

• Red carpet for film biz partners

  By Stephanie BeasleyNovember 12, 2009

  There are many differences in the lives of good friends Diana Scott and Donna Lynn Johnson. A practicing nurse as well as the owner of Scott Street Tavern in Springfield, Scott is also a film student at Wright State University and the mother of two children. Johnson has a teenage son and is the owner of the Main Squeeze on Xenia Avenue. In her spare time, she runs a food consulting company and previously held positions with companies like Dole and Safeway Manufacturing in her native California.

  There is, however, something that is bringing these two seemingly divergent lives together: a joint venture that they have named Mad River Films.

• A nonprofit, Little Art lives on

  By Web AdminOctober 22, 2009

  Zack McGhee loves the Little Art Theatre. He first started coming here for the indie circuit as a teenager from Fairborn and then in 2006 became a projectionist to get paid for one of his favorite pastimes. He is proud to have brought his Republican parents here to see films such as Michael Moore’s Bowling […]

• Skeins away! Yarn-bombers strike

  By Brooke BryanOctober 1, 2009

  

  Forgive this reporter for stating the obvious: Yellow Springs has been yarn bombed.

  Yarn Bombing, a new glossy craft book, has a definite Yellow Springs flavor: the book features full-page spreads of the fiber art of locals Nancy Mellon and Corrine Bayraktaroglu — aka the JafaGirls — presented as a radical art practice called knit graffiti.

• Filmmakers strike a nerve with D.C. ‘Tea Party’ march video

  By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 24, 2009

  “We knew when we were putting it up that if it had a certain quality and speed, it might get attention,” Whiteside said.

• ‘Last Truck’ focuses on GM family

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 3, 2009

  The job of an automobile assembly line worker is to assemble one particular part over and over and over again on each vehicle that comes down the line, GM employee Kim Clay explains in the film. On the day the Moraine plant closed in December 2008, when the last truck came down the line, workers no longer had a job to do, he says — they no longer had a purpose. He felt it, others felt it. And Louis Carter, who applied the sticker with the last serial number on it, especially felt it.

• ‘Red Pants’ dance

  By YS News StaffAugust 20, 2009

  

  Copies of this and other photographs may be purchased from the News; please contact us via e-mail at ysnews@ysnews.com, or by phone, between 9:30 a.m. and 5: 30 p.m., Mon.–Fri.

• Skaters, music at park fundraiser

  By Stephanie Beasley

  

  Festival line-up The 3rd annual Skate and Music Fest will take place on Friday, Aug. 21, from 5 to 10 p.m., at the Yellow Springs Skate Park in conjunction with the Third Friday Fling. There will be music and skating to benefit the YS Skate Park. A $5 to $10 donation is requested to help […]