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• Mark Twain Prize gala performance to honor Dave Chappelle

  By Carol SimmonsOctober 27, 2019

  

  Comedian and actor Dave Chappelle, who lives with his family just outside Yellow Springs, is set to receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at a star-filled performance Sunday evening, Oct 27, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

• First Lines — October, catching fire

  By Audrey HackettOctober 25, 2019

  

  Not all poems marvel or praise. Some embrace the bleakness — as this month’s poem by MJ White does, beautifully.

• Open Studios— Tour to showcase how artists create

  By Carol SimmonsOctober 24, 2019

  

  The Yellow Springs Open Studios Tour returns Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 19 and 20.

• The 2019-20 Guide to Yellow Springs: Activism in the Village

  By Megan BachmanOctober 17, 2019

  

  This year’s Guide presents recent articles and material from our archives to highlight the brave local activists working for a more just, fair and sustainable world.

• First Lines — A wisdom poem

  By Audrey HackettOctober 10, 2019

  

  “There is an impassable gap ….” A poem from villager Jim Malarkey contemplates our strangeness to each other. Intimacy as well as violence grows in that “gap.”

• WYSO now independent nonprofit

  By Audrey HackettOctober 3, 2019

  

  Local public radio station 91.3 FM-WYSO, started by three Antioch College students in 1958, is now independent and community-owned. On Aug. 30, the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, gave final approval for the transfer of the station’s broadcast license from longtime owner Antioch College to Miami Valley Public Media, Inc., a newly created nonprofit governed by a seven-member community board.

• YSHS and MMS present “The Bigfoot Letters”

  By Lauren ShowsSeptember 24, 2019

  

  A rural Southern Ohio woman takes a little Bigfoot home to raise it as her own. Now what? YSHS and MMS present “The Bigfoot Letters” Sept. 26–29 at the Foundry Theater.

• Outside voices: Porchfest 2019

  By YS News StaffSeptember 19, 2019

  

  Yellow Springs’ second annual Porchfest transformed the town’s patios and porches into a de facto ­villagewide venue Saturday, Sept. 14.

• World House Choir performs— ‘Earth Mass’ reprised, with new works

  By Lauren Shows

  

  Performances are slated for Sept. 18 and 21 in the Foundry Theater at Antioch College; the choir will also perform on Sept. 19 and 22 in Dayton and Springfield (see sidebar on page 10 for full details).

• World House Choir to debut “Our Planet — Our Lives”

  By YS News StaffSeptember 17, 2019

  

  The World House Choir will debut “Our Planet — Our Lives” on Wednesday, Sept. 18, in the Foundry Theater at Antioch College.