Culture Couch

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi is widely considered to be the last master of traditional Japanese wood carving. His colorful prints were made in the 19th century, but his imagery is everywhere today. You’ll find it in books and on calendars. Posters hang in sushi shops and college dorm rooms. But when Dayton Art Institute reopens on July 10th, they’ll have 100 rare, original Yoshitoshi  prints on display.

By now many of us have worked from home on Zoom. So what does that mean if you are a dancer in the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company? When Ohio shut down…

Honeybees are remarkable creatures - industrious pollinators necessary for producing most of our food crops like all of those apples, cucumbers,…

Social distancing is here the foreseeable future. But for people who are blind, contact with others can be essential for many daily life tasks. Community…

If you’re staying at home and looking for something fun to do, Miami Valley museums may have you covered. They’ve been beefing up their virtual products…

The City of Dayton is asking for help designing a new flag to fly over the Gem City.The flag redesign project started long before the Coronavirus outbreak…

 The Xenia Area Community Theater (X*ACT) is currently producing an Ohio premiere, The Face of Emmett Till. In 1955, Mamie Till put her only son,…

Someone just hit their target at Wild Axe, an axe throwing bar in Beavercreek. Wild Axe opened this summer, and is one of the newest in a spate of such…

Ohio artist James Mellick makes highly detailed, life-size, wooden sculptures of dogs. He’s been doing it for forty years now.He uses walnut for Chocolate…

Stories mark this season, and that brings us to a Yellow Springs December story that many of us know.Yellow Springs patron Wheeling Gaunt was born in 1812…

Last month, a prison theater group at Marion Correctional Institution performed The Hamilton Project, 23 songs from the hip hop musical on the life of…

William Preston Mayfield led a fantastic life.He learned to take photos when he was nine, talked the Dayton Daily News into a job at twelve, and, by his…