All Aboard! May 4th is Toledo’s 12th National Train Day
April 23, 2019On May 10, 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad was completed in Utah, as the first rails spanning the entire continent were joined with the driving of a symbolic golden spike completing the project. The 150th anniversary of that event will be honored as part of Toledo’s 12th annual National Train Day celebration at Martin Luther King
Falling Slowly for Once
April 9, 2019The two lead characters meet on the streets of Dublin. The audience never learns their names. The script refers to them merely as “Guy” and “Girl.” They have defining traits— he’s a musician nursing heartbreak, she’s an immigrant from the Czech Republic— yet they could be any of us. They are wounded people, bonding through
A Zest for Charity
April 2, 2019Local Chefs raising funds Zest Toledo, so much more than a tasting, is an event to raise money to assist area charities dealing with hunger — the Aurora Project, Toledo Day Nursery, Toledo GROWS and the Toledo Northwest Ohio Food Bank all receive grants from Zest. Last year’s event raised $96,000 for the charities. 100%
Great Music Over Yonder
March 27, 2019OWE house concerts bring Toledo folk Music performances began with house concerts, in the intimate surroundings of a home, rather than in larger concert spaces. Folk and bluegrass lore is replete with traveling musicians playing in peoples’ homes. After a lull in popularity in the latter half of the 20th century, this staple of musical
Cashing In a Golden Ticket
March 12, 2019Veteran actress to appear at Stranahan in production of “Chocolate Factory”