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 2010-02-09T10:39:19-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/02/09/would_you_like.html It won’t be from me… It’d be from the Writer’s Almanac! If you are a public radio listener, you probably know this feature, by Garrison Keillor and his crew, which offers up daily encouragement and information for anybody who lives... 16609403@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-02-09T10:39:19-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/02/08/why_hollywood_d.html Well, OK, it still does. I’m overstating to make the point, which would be obvious from the last story you read about “Avatar.” But this piece from NPR.com shows how new media are endlessly creating new opportunities for young, up-and-coming,... 16607203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-02-08T21:56:42-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/02/08/nytimes_dave_sn.html All in all, I thought the Super Bowl commercials were better than most of the pundits and DJs seem to be saying this morning, though I’m also getting the sense each year that dissing the ads as unfunny is some... 16595603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-02-08T07:37:02-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/02/07/losing_a_local.html Since you’re reading an arts blog, you probably know Cityfolk, the Dayton arts organization that has been bringing folk music, dance, jazz, world and Celtic music to local stages since 1981. You might not know, however, that its executive director,... 16593103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-02-07T09:38:10-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/02/06/the_white_death.html Well, those wacky forecasters got this one right … the snow arrived, in the amount foretold, and more or less at appointed time. Bravo for modern weather modeling! As I emerged from hibernation this morning to the scratching sounds of... 16589203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-02-06T09:23:02-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/02/05/whats_the_best_2.html NPR.com raises that very fun question with this entry on a spin off of the new decision by the Academy to raise the number of top films to 10, from five… Their vote: 1962. A good year indeed, but how... 16587703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-02-05T20:17:20-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/02/04/blog_fatigue.html Ran across an interesting story this morning from the Associated Press about some polling that suggests young people are starting to grow tired of a medium that they once actively, enthusiastically embraced: The blog. Seems that other social networking media... 16565803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-02-04T08:07:11-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/02/03/a_record_price.html … and what, for a Giacometti scuplture????? Are you kidding? What the hell? I even LIKE Giacometti, and I don’t get it… The world is a funny place…... 16564803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-02-03T22:10:52-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/02/02/your_cells_may.html This may be one of the most amazing stories I’ve read in a while… Go all the way to the end. Thoughts?... 16547303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-02-02T16:53:34-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/02/01/how_salinger_go.html How did JD Salinger become the world’s most famous recluse? Turns out, by not actually being all that reclusive… That, and he had help. What’s that saying, again? “It takes a village to make a recluse…” Interesting piece on how... 16532103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-02-01T15:21:32-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/01/29/so_much_stuff_s.html Winter arts odds and ends, as the chill winds and snowflakes swirl about us… Ummm, iSlate, iTab, iFlat, iQuick, iWork, iPlay, iWrite, iRead, iType, iNews, iSomething-Anything…. Guess next time, they’ll invite a few women to the brand-name focus group —... 16511203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-01-29T14:42:37-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/01/29/beautiful_snowf.html Sure, winter can be a pain, but these old photographs are a reminder that it can be lovely, too… This photo gallery is borrowed from today’s Daily Beast… I had never heard of this artist/photographer. Live and learn. And enjoy... 16505603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-01-29T08:15:29-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/01/26/fixing_up_a_mut.html I don’t know about you, but I’ve been fascinated by the stories about how they’re going to go about repairing the Picasso painting that was damaged the other day… This piece from the Times talks about some the challenges. Yeesh!... 16472203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-01-26T13:31:51-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/01/23/free_books.html No, this isn’t an entry about Dayton’s famous Free Books Truck, that old pickup covered with old plastic toys and various geegaws that Dave Hurwitz parks around town, inviting folks to pick through and take whatever titles they want. Actually,... 16443603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-01-23T09:21:56-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2010/01/22/gladgirl_good_d.html In any local music scene, there are all kinds of folks in the audience — occasional clubbers, bemused sideliners, irritated skeptics, casual fans, obsessive groupies, and on and on. And then, thank goodness, there are people like Shelly Hulce. Hulce,... 16436803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2010-01-22T14:39:51-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com