http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/ Compiled by "Smart Mouth" columnist Amelia Robinson, Seen and Overheard is fueled by juicy tidbits, oddball tales and strange sightings. Twitter with Amelia at DDNSmartmouth. Have an item for Seen and Overheard? Click here to let us know all about it. Want more? Seen & Overheard runs daily in the Dayton Daily News. en-us arobinson@coxohio.com 2009-11-20T12:09:39-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/entries/2009/11/20/daytons_runway_runner_preparin.html What do you do after “Project Runway”? If you are Oakwood High School graduate Althea Harper you continue to work hard. Harper is preparing to sell her spring/summer collection. “Everything is going to start being for sale in February on... 15788003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/ People you know 2009-11-20T12:09:39-04:00 arobinson@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/entries/2009/11/11/ball_game_boy_and_big_wheel_ma.html The ball has finally got its due. The bouncy, round wonder has been inducted into The National Toy Hall of Fame at Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, according to a press release. Which of 2009 contenders... 15663903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/ Good to Know 2009-11-11T12:55:48-04:00 arobinson@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/entries/2009/11/10/50_year_thanksgiving_time_trad.html The elegant flair that is the Ebony Fashion Fair will not transform the Dayton Convention Center into a fashion lover’s paradise this Thanksgiving weekend as was planned. Johnson Publishing canceled the traveling fashion show’s 2009 national stops for the first... 15647803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/ Good to Know 2009-11-10T12:31:00-04:00 arobinson@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/entries/2009/11/09/oakwood_native_in_cameron_diaz.html Oakwood native Danielle Heaton is not the star of “The Box,” but sometimes the smallest roles are the biggest. Heaton’s small speaking role and close ups in the Cameron Diaz lead horror-thriller were more than enough to make her family... 15625903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/ People you know 2009-11-09T10:40:44-04:00 arobinson@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/entries/2009/11/06/you_may_be_a_redneck_if_you_ba.html Yup, you may be a redneck if you deposit your money at Redneck Bank. Nope, we aren’t joking. Redneck Bank is the Internet banking division of Oklahoma-based Wichitas. That institution was established in 1913 and is insured by the FDIC.... 15585303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/ Just Funny 2009-11-06T11:32:51-04:00 arobinson@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/entries/2009/11/05/controversial_activist_to_spea.html A woman with one of the most recognizable faces from the 1970s will speak 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, at the University of Dayton’s Kennedy Union Ballroom. Angela Y. Davis in the 1970s Controversial political activist and history of consciousness... 15566003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/ 2009-11-05T14:25:19-04:00 arobinson@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/entries/2009/11/04/local_students_to_dance_12_str.html More than 400 University of Dayton will make Athena proud Saturday, Nov. 7, as part of the 11th annual Dance Marathon at the university’s RecPlex Center. The 12-hour event will raise funds to purchase equipment for The Children’s Medical Center... 15543103@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/ People you know 2009-11-04T10:53:18-04:00 arobinson@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/entries/2009/11/03/dayton_native_to_appear_as_wro.html You may recognized the wrongly convicted man on tonight’s episode of CBS’ “The Good Wife.” He will be played by Dayton native and veteran actor Curtiss Cook. Curtiss Cook Cook portrays Clarence, a death row inmate wrongly convicted of murdering... 15521403@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/ People you know 2009-11-03T10:07:16-04:00 arobinson@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/entries/2009/11/02/twilight_barbie_hits_the_marke.html As expected, vampires like dream houses too. Mattel has begun selling Barbie Dolls inspired by the “Twilight” movie franchise. The Barbie-dized versions of vampire Edward Cullen and mortal girl Bella Swan (Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart) sell for about $25... 15503003@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/ Strange 2009-11-02T09:43:21-04:00 arobinson@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/entries/2009/10/29/meadowdale_grad_to_appear_on_h.html Meadowdale High School grad William Christopher Stephens will mix it up with the cast of “HOUSE” Monday, Nov. 9, according to his online site. The show airs at 8 p.m. on Fox. (Lisa Powell, Staff Photo) This will not be... 15459503@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/ People you know 2009-10-29T13:57:53-04:00 arobinson@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/entries/2009/10/28/wayne_high_school_grad_rachael.html Kim White broke her dad’s rule about no makeup when she was a kid and in retrospect, that might have been a good thing. “What I understand now that I didn’t know then is that the first thing she would... 15435303@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/ People you know 2009-10-28T09:49:14-04:00 arobinson@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/entries/2009/10/27/pilots_typing_while_flying_do.html The revelation that two Northwest Airlines pilots where typing while flying has to make you wonder what else they are doing in the cockpit while you are snacking on your pretzels in third class. Do you feel safe in the... 15419903@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/ talk 2009-10-27T10:17:44-04:00 arobinson@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/entries/2009/10/27/beavercreek_couples_halloween.html Dare Richard Rempes of Beavercreek and he’ll do his best to show you up. A challenge is part of the reason 30,000 lights and a ton of Halloween decorations - pumpkins, vampires, ghost, a Michael Jackson mannequin in a red... 15414803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/ People you know 2009-10-27T08:19:29-04:00 arobinson@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/entries/2009/10/26/event_raises_more_than_400000.html To call the Grandview Foundation Memorial Gala and Auction a success is sort of an understatement. The first-time event raised more than $400,000, about $100,000 more than projected, earlier this month, said Kelly Fackel, the foundation’s vice president of development.... 15409703@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/ 2009-10-26T16:09:31-04:00 arobinson@coxohio.com http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/entries/2009/10/26/should_balloon_boys_parent_ser.html If you believe a warrant, Falcon isn’t the only Heene to let the cat out of the bag. Balloon Boy’s mom, Mayumi Heene, told investigators that she and her husband lied when they claimed they thought their son was in... 15404803@http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/seen_and_overheard/ Strange 2009-10-26T12:03:20-04:00 arobinson@coxohio.com