Category: Youngstown

  • C’est Moi

    I rarely post pics like I did all the time in Japan, since it was like, you know, another country and all that.  But my friend Jan took a pic of me tonight at a board meeting for the Oakland Center for the Arts, and I didn’t realize it. I always like the candid photos…

  • Goings-on

    Because I am a lazy blogger these days, I’m simply going to link over to my friend Deb’s blog post about the events going on downtown in Ytown this weekend.  There’s good stuff:  the Artists of the Rustbelt Festival, the first GLBT Pride Day in Youngstown’s history, Jonesfest, and a historic walking tour.  Check out…

  • Susan and Me

    My friend Kelly Bancroft has a video essay up at Time.com today.  “Susan and Me” is about my beloved Susan Boyle (who, in her last performance, was not as beguiling as her first) and Kelly’s connections to her as a singer from a post-industrial town where your talents may or may not go undiscovered.  It’s…

  • This weekend in the Yo

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  • Best Book Club in the Yo

    If you’re from the Youngstown region and looking for a book club to read and share thoughts and make community, you need to join the Oakland Center for the Arts’ book club.  Here is the website, as well as the list of books we’re reading for the rest of ’09.  It’s awesome, and diverse, just…

  • Lincoln Avenue

    Sherry Linkon, of Youngstown State University, has one of the most illuminating radio shows in town, Lincoln Avenue, named both for the street on which our local NPR station is located as well as a play on her last name.  Last week she interviewed Marilyn Geewax, senior business editor for National Public Radio, who also happens…

  • Bugged

    I’m so looking forward to seeing this.

  • Q&A

    I’ve been spending the past week doing Q&A at the Endicott Mythic Reader’s Group on Goodreads, and there have been some really thoughtful questions.  One came in today, to which I just responded.  And I’ve decided to post the question and my response here, too. Q: Ghosts and eldritch kids in and of themselves aren’t…

  • Oh come, all ye faithful

  • Party, party, party

    Dear All You Youngstowners and those who will be hereabouts come this weekend,   This Saturday will be one big party downtown.  Why?  Because I’m throwing a party for the release of my new book, which comes out tomorrow, The Love We Share Without Knowing.  There will be food (cross-cultural selections, since the book is…