Arts Section :: Page 124

• Popular pick for WYSO

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 4, 2008

  The prayers of many WYSO supporters were answered this week when Antioch University hired long-time radio producer Neenah Ellis as general manager of its public radio station. Ellis replaces Paul Maassen, who left the station in March to be the general manager of a bigger public radio station in New Orleans.

• Soldier’s Afghan tour prompts NPR ‘This I Believe’ essay

  By Susan GartnerNovember 20, 2008

  

  National Public Radio’s popular media project, “This I Believe,” has inspired thousands of writers across the country (including 10 from Yellow Springs) to express and condense their thoughts into a personal essay, 500 words or less, then submit it for consideration to NPR’s selection committee.

• YSHS ‘Midsummer’ mischief, mayhem with a ’50s flare

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 13, 2008

  

  If Shakespeare had lived in the 1950s, how he would have dressed, where he would have lived and the way he would have set his stage is surely just what the Yellow Springs High School thespians have dreamed up for the fall production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

• Variations on a family theme— Carmina debuts youngest member

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 6, 2008

  

  The chiming of church bells outside Wendy Champney’s home in Zürich, Switzerland rang clear and strong to sound the 6 o’clock hour on Sunday. It was a reminder that the time left to prepare before she and her husband and daughter returned to her hometown of Yellow Springs was growing short.

• Old seedhouse, new vision for artists, gallery space

  By Susan GartnerOctober 9, 2008

  According to sculptor, performer, and video artist Michael Casselli, his New York apartment would fit several times over in the new space he has leased in the Millworks Business Center on North Walnut Street.

• Little town, big chamber music series

  By Susan GartnerSeptember 25, 2008

  

  In the world of chamber music, Chamber Music Yellow Springs can play with the big boys. “When I go to the Chamber Music America Conference [the national association of chamber music presenters and performers]….”

• New book profiles Walter Anderson

  By Susan GartnerSeptember 4, 2008

  

  Writers employ a wide variety of techniques to help them stay on task, such as scheduling a set time each day for writing or writing about writer’s block. For first-time author Joan Horn, the pressure to work on her book came from a technique not typically found in a writer’s guide.

• Fall colors bring in the blues

  By Virgil HerveyAugust 28, 2008

  Around town folks still call it the “blues fest,” even though the popular annual event is now officially known as the Blues, Jazz and Cultural Fest. And, although there has been concern that without facilities traditionally provided by Antioch College the show might not go on…

• Three authors write of love, youth and spirits

  By Susan GartnerAugust 14, 2008

  

  Three authors, three books, three very different journeys on the road to getting published. Chuck Colbert, Jaime Adoff, and Joanne Caputo talked about their recently published works and what they hope to bring to their readers.

• Sculptor’s legacy set in stone, bronze, iron, etc.

  By YS News StaffAugust 7, 2008

  

  An artist’s inspiration can come from anywhere — the angelic face of a sleeping child, a vibrant color from a neighbor’s garden, or perhaps the unique perspective of a somersaulting motorcyclist after connecting head-on with an oncoming car.