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• Kuder, Wexler’s genre-defying books

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 10, 2021

  

  Yellow Springs authors Rebecca Kuder and Robert Wexler, who are partners, released new books this fall: Kuder’s debut novel, “The Eight Mile Suspended Carnival,” from What Books Press; and Wexler’s short story collection, “Undiscovered Territories,” from PS Publishing.

• YSHS, McKinney students to perform ‘The Stinky Cheese Man’

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 9, 2021

  

  “The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales” will be performed by students from McKinney Middle School and YS High School on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 10–12, at Clifton Opera House.

• Ten years of Winter Solstice Poetry Readings

  By Reilly DixonDecember 8, 2021

  

  Now in its 10th year, the Winter Solstice Poetry Reading’s theme is “Sacred Ground,” which, according to organizer and local poet Ed Davis, is an homage to the event’s longtime and rightful home: Glen Helen.

• Artist Profile | ‘Mapping the void’ with steel and wood

  By Reilly DixonNovember 19, 2021

  

  Somewhere among the heaps of rusty scrap metal and mounds of sawdust in his small garage, local artist and fourth-generation welder Seth Ratliff has honed a craft that’s allowed him to find order in all the chaos.

• Chamber Music in Yellow Springs to host Telegraph Quartet

  By YS News StaffNovember 15, 2021

  

  On Sunday, Nov. 21, Chamber Music in Yellow Springs will host the Telegraph Quartet in a hybrid in-person/livestreaming performance at the First Presbyterian Church of Yellow Springs.

• Review | The tweedy pastiche of ‘The French Dispatch’

  By Reilly DixonNovember 11, 2021

  

  “It is, after all, both in form and reference, a love letter to The New Yorker and some of its past luminaries.”

• Chiddister debut novel looks at aging and forgiveness

  By Lauren ShowsNovember 5, 2021

  

  Writer and former Yellow Springs News editor Diane Chiddister’s novel on aging and death, “One More Day,” was released earlier this month through Boyle & Dalton Publishing. The novel is available at Epic Books and Dark Star Books and Comics in Yellow Springs.

• Local arts collective Toadstool Shadow releases album

  By YS News StaffNovember 4, 2021

  

  When was the last time you listened to an album about rabbits, fairies, robotic elves and invisible mountains? If you are so inclined, the answer to that question can be “today.”

• The 2021-22 Guide to Yellow Springs: A Kaleidoscopic View of the Village

  By YS News StaffOctober 29, 2021

  

  This year’s Guide to Yellow Springs examines the village’s downtown, a reflection of our authentic, offbeat, casual and creative counterculture values.

• New bookmobile revs into action

  By YS News StaffOctober 9, 2021

  

  Back in August, booklovers from around the county gathered at the Fairborn Community Library to help dedicate the Greene County Public Library system’s latest asset: its brand new bookmobile.