http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ Writer and editor Ron Rollins has covered entertainment and the Dayton arts scene for more than a decade. Find things to do In a hurry? ActiveDayton.com's twice-a-week e-mail newsletter lets you know the top five things to do in the area twice a week. Sign up en-us rrollins@daytondailynews.com 2010-03-16T21:44:45-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/03/16/elmore_leonard.html I just finished reading his latest, “Road Dogs,” and laughed myself silly the whole time. Damn, the guy is good. Here’s a fun NPR interview with the master. What’s your favorite book of his? Mine? Probably “Get Shorty,” but they’re... 16988803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-03-16T21:44:45-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/03/15/how_cool_a_new.html Hey, fans … this just in from the BBC.... 16974303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-03-15T23:10:32-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/03/15/time_to_enter_o.html All right, friends, you can stop calling now. You can start typing, instead. We’ve been getting calls and emails over the last few weeks from readers wondering when we were going to announce the start of this year’s Short Story... 16964803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-03-15T10:56:31-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/03/09/the_changing_fa.html It’s well-known at this point that lots of US newspapers have been doing away with in-house film criticism in an effort to cut costs (the DDN, in the interest of full disclosure, did so long ago), but this is a... 16895703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-03-09T17:12:23-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/03/08/a_cool_new_down.html Everybody’s dreams are different. For some, they’re vague, wispy and intangible. For Hamilton and Carli Dixon, they’re made of more solid stuff. Their dreams are about steel and soil, anvils and presses, bricks and mortar, construction debris and the moving... 16881603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-03-08T17:32:28-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/02/24/wow_this_guy_re.html … and he doesn’t just hate him a little bit. He hates him a whole bunch. Check out this posting from the Daily Beast, in which a critic has weighed in on the relative merits of Clint’s career after having... 16760103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-02-24T11:18:37-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/02/23/avatar_finally.html Got the chance last weekend to finally catch up with the movie half the planet has already seen twice, apparently, and I’m happy to say that I’m happy I did. You know what I mean by that, too: Any film... 16753903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-02-23T16:58:33-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/02/22/shakespeare_onl.html I stumbled across this site the other day and had to share… Be forewarned, gentle readerpersons, that one might waste a lot of time here. Forsooth!... 16739803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-02-22T17:03:44-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/02/21/our_greatest_ac.html Is there any doubt? Nope. What’s your favorite Meryl Streep movie? Tell, tell…. For me, it’s a “Silkwood”/”Sophie’s Choice”/”Out of Africa” tossup…... 16730003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-02-21T19:31:37-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/02/20/a_new_view_on_s.html Those of you interested in urban affairs, environmental matters, city culture, global issues and the way people live and adapt might find this essay worth reading. Thoughts?... 16722303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-02-20T08:04:56-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/02/19/eyeopening_afri.html As usual, Bing Davis is on a mission. “I felt a commitment to share and bring along as many African-American artists as I can,” he says, with the enthusiasm he brings to all of his many projects. “I’ve got a... 16716703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-02-19T13:47:35-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/02/18/did_you_see_wic.html Soooooooooooooo … how was it? Tell, tell, tell.... 16711303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-02-18T22:57:32-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/02/17/whos_still_work.html Sometimes, you have to step outside your culture to really see inside it. This insightful, engaging piece from the Guardian in London takes a look at who’s left from the generation of great American writers who came of age during... 16698703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-02-17T17:45:58-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/02/16/dog_show_dog_sh.html OK, here’s how much my wife and I love the Westminster Dog Show: We will watch it instead of the Olympics, which we really like a lot, and we will act like goofballs beforehand by imitating the old SNL skit... 16687103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-02-16T19:56:58-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/02/16/king_tut_still.html This may be of interest to any of you who attended the big Egyptian art show at the Dayton Art Institute a few years back… This study into what may have killed King Tut was led by Zahi Hawass, the... 16685403@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-02-16T17:48:44-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com