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 2008-06-26T18:07:52-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2008/06/26/new_disc_by_duf.html Today’s disc, kids: Duffy ROCKFERRY There have been numerous British Invasions since that first one back in 1964 — some large, some small, some successful, some far less so. The latest comes in female form, as a wave of young... 4892403@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2008-06-26T18:07:52-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2008/06/25/evil_video_game.html If you read this space, you know I’m no fan of video games … but I was drawn to this article that argues they really aren’t that bad for you, since it’s being shown that violent games don’t make users/players... 4866503@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2008-06-25T21:37:39-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2008/06/24/new_coldplay_fa.html Today’s disc, and a good one: Coldplay VIVA LA VIDA Have you noticed what happens to rock bands that hit a certain point of fame and popularity? After an album or two, there seems to emerge this weird groundswell of... 4817303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2008-06-24T09:05:58-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2008/06/22/give_me_my_semi.html Aw, nuts. Sometimes you are aware of a creeping trend that bothers you if you think about it, but you can kind of ignore it until you see it written about. Dang it! Slate is confirming my suspicions about my... 4778203@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2008-06-22T08:30:49-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2008/06/20/art_ball_art_da.html A few stray thoughts today: — One of my favorite paintings at the Dayton Art Institute was the featured artwork at the 51st Art Ball, which was held at the museum last weekend. About 700 elegantly dressed folks got to... 4757503@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2008-06-20T15:58:49-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2008/06/19/contenders_for.html Well, here are the books that the Big Read committee are mulling over for the next communitywide reading event in the Dayton area, in the winter and early spring of 2009. They’re asking for feedback! Have you read any of... 4710403@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2008-06-19T07:59:02-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2008/06/18/enough_tim_russ.html All right, this is getting a bit outta hand, I think. Today, the ideologically opposite poles of the Wall Street Journal AND National Public Radio had even more … yes, you guessed it … appreciations for Tim Russert, meaning that... 4700803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2008-06-18T14:12:24-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2008/06/17/joking_your_way.html So, did humor bring about the end of the cold war, more than missiles, guns or diplomacy? Ummmmm, probably not … but accorrding to an interesting-sounding new book, it certainly reflected how the whole big mess was going to turn... 4681703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2008-06-17T22:45:34-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2008/06/17/weird_winning_w.html Today’s Disc du Jour! Weezer WEEZER (The Red Album) Anybody will tell you that this gettin’-old stuff stinks, but Rivers Cuomo seems to be taking the right attitude about it: “They say I need some Rogaine to put in my... 4661603@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2008-06-17T11:23:07-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2008/06/16/byebye_george.html Well, maybe it’s no surprise after all that George Jones canceled this week’s show that was supposed to happen at the Nutter Center. The Possum never really did have a reputation for showing up on time, between all the drinkin,... 4646903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2008-06-16T18:14:02-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2008/06/16/fun_fun_fun_at.html Ah, it was a perfect night. The 51st Art Ball at the Dayton Art Institute proved itself yet again to be the best event of its kind in this area, as some 700 well-dressed and wonderfully coiffed patrons found out.... 4641103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2008-06-16T13:55:38-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2008/06/15/the_idiocy_at_f.html Hey, now, this is really nice stuff… And people actually rely on that network, too… Go figure.... 4623003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2008-06-15T22:25:25-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2008/06/14/ddn_short_story.html After many hours of reading, discussing and thinking it over, our staff judges have arrived at the winners for the 12th Annual Dayton Daily News Short Story and Poetry Contest. Winning poems and stories will be published in the Life... 4603303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2008-06-14T08:33:48-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2008/06/13/drunk_on_art_he.html What if you could create an art book that didn’t have any rules? Or that slammed together any and all artworks from all through history that you liked, but which may or may not relate to each other in the... 4606703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2008-06-13T22:55:37-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/entries/2008/06/13/pop_culture_dri.html Remember the Beach Boys singing about that T-Bird that got taken away? Or Steve Miller crooning about his “Mercury Blues.” How he was gonna buy him a Mer’cree and “cruuuhoohuuuuse up ‘n’ down this road….” I remember Queen rocking out... 4600003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/rollins/ 2008-06-13T16:18:38-05:00 rrollins@daytondailynews.com