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 2009-07-01T14:54:04-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2009/07/01/will_we_be_payi.html This weekend, lots of you will head downtown forthis year’s Cityfolk Festival, expanding your musical horizons with bands such as Son del Caribe, Afromotive and Feufollet — a diverse, eclectic lineup perfectly in keeping with the festival’s open-minded tradition. But... 13647003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2009-07-01T14:54:04-04:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2009/06/26/will_michael_ja.html When I heard the news about Michael Jackson, I was sitting in a bar in Gettysburg, Pa., having a quiet beer after a long fun day of tromping around the battlefield with my dad. I know that doesn’t mean that... 13570203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2009-06-26T09:04:28-04:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2009/06/19/dai_still_tryin.html The finely attired folks who pulled up to the valet parking for this year’s Art Ball last weekend got to see the Dayton Art Institute at its seeming best: all polished and prettied up, white-tableclothed and candled, full of lovely... 13463503@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2009-06-19T15:53:37-04:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2009/06/18/does_dayton_lov.html You’ve probably seen the stories online today and in the DDN about this being the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ historic homecoming celebration, when they came back after a victorious business trip to France. Pretty interesting, if you’re into... 13438903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2009-06-18T11:25:39-04:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2009/06/13/keeping_the_dre.html Anna Baumeister took her new job, one might think, at the worst possible time. It says something about her that she doesn’t see it that way. “Sure, it’s a very tough time,” she says, in a soft accect that betrays... 13353303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2009-06-13T08:44:36-04:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2009/06/12/take_a_photo_of.html This just in from the city and the Downtown Dayton Partnership. Those sculptures aren’t my personal cup of artistic tea (scary!), but I know lots of folks like ‘em. So: The City Life Sculpture Photo Contest: Click It to Win... 13345003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2009-06-12T10:41:43-04:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2009/06/11/the_end_of_face.html Ahoy, Facebook friends (and all the rest of you)… Where will YOU be at 12:01 AM Saturday? Lots of you will be pecking away at your keyboards trying to lay claim to your own names when the huge social-networking site... 13322803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2009-06-11T11:08:37-04:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2009/06/09/so_exactly_what.html Hmmmm… was it by killing each other methodically, rather than indiscriminately? Or, was it by holding our meat over the fire? Couldn’t it have been a little of both? I think it could have…. Two very interesting pieces that examine... 13293703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2009-06-09T21:55:40-04:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2009/06/08/the_best_book_i.html I just finished reading a fabulous novel that I’d strongly recommend as beach/vacay reading for anybody and everybody. It came out in 2006 and you can pick it up in trade paperback: “Water for Elephants,” by Sara Gruen. It’s a... 13266403@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2009-06-08T16:46:17-04:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2009/06/05/dayton_philharm.html Note to the community: Your orchestra needs you. Specifically, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra needs to raise $1.2 million from you in the next three years — just to stay afloat. It needs the first $600,000 of that amount next year.... 13222603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2009-06-05T15:14:06-04:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2009/06/04/jumping_the_sha.html Amusing piece from the National Post up in Canada about the natural life cycle TV shows follow as they grow, evolve and die… Sometimes when they should, sometimes not. This sets the infamous notion of “jumping the shark” in context... 13202503@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2009-06-04T17:16:34-04:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2009/06/03/wait_a_sec_the.html Who knew that you could get France, Jerry Lewis, Germany and Donald Duck into the same story? Egad… But I must say, Donald has always been my favorite Disney character. For that matter, I prefer Daffy over Bugs, too. Probably... 13184103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2009-06-03T22:00:23-04:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2009/06/02/conans_first_ni.html So, caught Conan O’Brien’s inaugural foray onto “The Tonight Show” stage last night, and found myself laughing it up quite a bit… The opening film sketch was pretty good, really, in which he was in NYC checking off his to-do... 13146203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2009-06-02T10:53:35-04:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2009/06/01/calling_all_mur.html This just in, from Xenia, where they’re looking to fill up some downtown walls: The Xenia Mural Society, a component of Greene Giving, is issuing a Call to Artists for original and creative designs for a mural with the general... 13125703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2009-06-01T12:14:47-04:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2009/06/01/disneys_new_car.html This is interesting, and really not too surprising… Times story from Sunday about how people are already starting to scrutinize and worry about Disney’s first depiction of a major black heroine in one of its features… I’m in the let’s-wait-and-see... 13119503@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2009-06-01T07:31:04-04:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com