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Researcher to present new book Thursday on parenting children in their 20s
Forty percent of Americans ages 18 to 34 live with their parents today. More than a third are unemployed or underemployed. And they change jobs an average seven times in their 20s alone.“I think we’re all aware that it takes longer for kids to grow up than they did a ...
Short Story Contest: We have a winner
This spring marks the 17th year of the annual Dayton Daily News Short Story Contest (and the third year that the contest has been co-sponsored with Antioch Writers' Workshop). All stories were read by at least three judges before entries were narrowed down to a final round. Judges read finalists ...
10,000 10-year-olds take over the Schuster
Yellow school buses surrounded the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Center this week as 10,000 10-year-olds descended on the popular downtown Dayton venue.The idea was to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Schuster by entertaining 10,000 children who were born in the year the Schuster Center was built. School groups from ...
Kettering adding works to public sites program
Jean Koeller is busy painting, not that this activity is different from any other time in her adult life. But this time she is creating art for CitySites, and all three paintings will be permanently housed in the lobby of the north building of the Kettering Government Center."The subject is ...
Fairborn show calls for outdoor entries
An awareness of Fairborn’s local green spaces and the need to preserve them led to the establishment of an En Plein Air competition in 2009. The collaboration between B-W Greenway Community Land Trust and the Fairborn Art Association continues with the fourth annual En Plein Air Show this summer.Each year ...
Visit Midwest’s only wake-boarding park, explore underground treasures, zip along scenic trails
For those who thrive on an adrenaline rush, southwestern Ohio has a wealth of thrill-seeking adventures.The state boasts five major zip-line canopy tours — Columbus, Hocking Hills, Loudonville, West Liberty, the Wilds — but one of the most breathtaking views can be found at Oregonia’s Ozone Zipline Adventures, which stretches ...
Dayton resident portrays Beethoven in Michigan
The Purple Rose Theatre Company in Chelsea, Mich., currently has a touch of the Gem City in its midst, thanks to Dayton resident Richard McWilliams.McWilliams portrays Ludwig van Beethoven in its production of "33 Variations," a compelling play-with-music by Moisés Kaufman ("The Laramie Project").A 2009 Tony Award nominee for Best ...
3 baseball books kick up some fresh dirt
About six weeks into the Major League Baseball season, several recent baseball books have come streaking through my strike zone."American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith" edited by Daniel Okrent (The Library of America, 560 pages, $29.95)One of the finest aspects of baseball is being able to read about ...
Short Story Contest winner: ‘And If Their Wings Burn’
‘And If Their Wings Burn’ by Ted Weatherup of Springfield The phone rang on the fifth-floor desk at Rockefeller Center’s NBC Studios. I was twenty that year and Milton Berle was big in Texaco Star Theater. Rosemary Clooney sang “Come On-a My House,” Kate Smith boomed out “God Bless America,” ...
Jessica Garringer’s Couponing Deals of the Week
COLGATE MOUTHWASH This week at Walgreens, Colgate mouthwash is on sale two for $6. Use two copies of the $1 off of one Colgate mouthwash coupon, found in most of today's SmartSource inserts. When you purchase two of these items you will also get back $2 in Register Rewards, which ...
Victoria announces Cool Film series
The names of the 12 films that will be shown this summer at the Victoria Theatre Association's popular Cool Films Series have just been announced.New this year is "Reel Late At the Vic," a series of films that will screen at 10:30 p.m. They include Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" on ...
More than 150 things to do in Ohio this summer
Grab your sunglasses and get ready for some outdoor adventures.With Memorial Day weekend quickly approaching and the official start to summer right behind it, now is the perfect time to plan some summer escapes that are close to home or worth a short drive.For the fourth year in a row, ...
Why are teens so jazzed about “The Great Gatsby”?
Why are young people so jazzed about the new film version of "The Great Gatsby?"Monday night, my husband and I went to the 9:55 showing of "The Great Gatsby," expecting a nearly empty theater. But the place was packed, with young people, no less — not the audience I'm accustomed ...
New eatery launches Bloody Mary bar
Leo Bistro, located inside the Dayton Art Institute, has officially jumped on the Bloody Mary bandwagon. “We had a large number of requests for Bloody Marys on those days so we said we’d offer it,” said Kris Sommers, the eatery’s guest services manager. “They (diners) can make it their own ...
Eatery makes splash with pickle soup, fried pickles, cheese-stuffed burgers
You are less likely to find yourself in a pickle if you gobble up that pickle first. That seems to be ruling principle at Blind Bob’s, a restaurant and bar located at 430 E. Fifth St. in Dayton’s Historic Oregon District. Two of the restaurant’s most popular dishes are all ...
New bakery mixing dessert with booze
The “secret ingredients” in Sarah Sullivan’s baked treats aren’t exactly secret, but they are sure to lift your spirits because, well, they are spirits.The Oregon District resident’s love for baked goods and good bourbon led her to launch Bakery 21 last November.“The word is spreading and that is great,” Sullivan ...
5 things that won’t move into the downtown Arcade complex
Recently, Dayton Metro Library officials soundly rejected a proposal that would have the main library move into the historic and insanely dilapidated Arcade complex downtown. That hasn’t stopped supporters of the move from pushing and pulling with all of their might. J. Todd Anderson, a nationally known storyboard artist who ...
Special event to share tales of stolen art
Federal courts are increasingly faced with claims from owners of artwork stolen by the Nazis during World War II.The Dayton Art Institute will host a special event Tuesday that will help you learn about stolen art cases from an expert in the field.Masterpieces & Mystery: Recovering Art Stolen from Victims ...
New brewery in the works at former Peerless Mill Inn
The former Peerless Mill Inn will soon be transformed into the Star City Brewing Company, slated to open perhaps as early as this fall, the microbrewery’s owners said Thursday. Star City Brewery is the brainchild of co-owners Brian Yavorsky of Liberty Twp. and Miamisburg brothers Brian and Justin Kohnen. Yavorsky ...
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