Wes Urbaniak and the Mountain Folk are an amphipathic resin that stabilizes the emulsion created from genre mixing. That's a mouthful, right? One part fairytale and two parts science - this mixture defines the band both in songwriting as well as in presentation. The songs twist and contort themselves around conscious themes and common experiences of the most lived-in journey in a way best described as: a new way to say the same thing. Even the instruments Urbaniak builds do…
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Mark your calendar and invite a friend to join the Rotary Club of Youngstown to eradicate polio one pint at a time! All pints purchased will be matched by the Youngstown Rotary Foundation, then matched by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 2-1. With matching contributions, each pint sold can save 14 LIVES! Special thanks to Rotarian Aspasia Bernacki, Penguin City Brewing and Westside Bowl for their sponsorship. This event will also be the launch of the 4th Annual Groundhog Beerfest on…
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The Bowling Show with TV's Don Walker Comedy Show hosted by Steve Swanson will be held on Thursday, January 26 at 7:30pm at Westside Bowl. The show will feature Andreas O’Rourke, Hanna Ljungholm and Brent Terhune. Special guests include Tim Wolfe and Shane Herman with music by Spank Byte. Tickets are $15. Doors open at 7:00pm. Click here to purchase tickets. Auditions for the roles of Men & Women Bowlers are Wednesday January 25 at Westside Bowl. There are a…
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Lit Youngstown’s First Wednesday Readers Series presents poets Richard Ferris of Cleveland and B. Elizabeth Beck of Lexington, Kentucky, originally of Canfield. R.W. Franklin will co-host the free reading at the Westside Bowl on Mahoning Ave., on Wednesday, May 3 at 7:00pm. The featured readers will be followed by an open mic. B Elizabeth Beck is a poet who writes fiction. Author of the Summer Tour Trilogy and four collections of poetry, Elizabeth is the founder of the Teen Howl…
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Lit Youngstown’s First Wednesday Readers Series presents fiction writer Arya F. Jenkins of Youngstown and Rose M. Smith of Columbus, Wednesday, June 7 at 7:00pm in the lower level Trophy Room at the Westside Bowl on Mahoning Ave. Alex Harper will co-host the free reading, which will be followed by an open mic. Arya F. Jenkins is a Colombian-American poet and writer whose work has been widely published, has received several nominations for the Pushcart Prize and, in 2021, a…
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Lit Youngstown will host the First Wednesday Readers Series on August 2 at 7:00pm at Westside Bowl in the lower level Trophy Room. The event will feature Cleveland poets Gina Tabasso and Russell Vidrick. Julie Cancio Harper will co-host the First Wednesday reading, which will be followed by an open mic. Gina M. Tabasso has been published in Mangrove, The Common Review, Upstairs at Duroc, The MacGuffin, Mid-American Review, Slant and Blue Mesa Review. She is a director of marketing and…
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The Rust Belt City Poetry Tour reading on August 10 from 7:00pm-8:00pm at Westside Bowl will feature Jason Baldinger (Pittsburgh), Mitch and Angel James (Cleveland), Jonie McIntire (Toledo), Karen Schubert (Youngstown), and Paul Trombley (Detroit). “The Rust Belt City Tour is the offspring of a night filled with literary readings and rounds of stouts and Irish whiskey at the Galic Club in Detroit,” said organizer Mitch James. “The tentative plan at the time was to corral a bevy of rust…
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Lit Youngstown’s First Wednesday Reader Series features Columbus poets Andy Roberts and Chuck Salmons Wednesday, September 6 at 7:00pm at Westside Bowl in the lower level Trophy Room. Tony Armeni will co-host the reading, which will be followed by an open mic and the drawing of the winning ticket for an original birdbath handsculpted by Armeni, being raffled as a fundraiser for Lit Youngstown. Andy Roberts is the author of three chapbooks from Pudding House Publications and five from NightBallet…
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