Good Times May 2014

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Headbanging back to the 80s

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What’s new at the

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Contents

Birthday trivia answers on page 8

Birthday Trivia

UNDER REVIEW‘Gone Girl,’ ‘The Amazing

Spider-Man 2’76 CONCERTS

Rally in the Square kicks off May 16

COVER STORYWhat’s new at the zoo?4

3 FEATURED BAND1988 brings pure rock to fans, new

generation at Mercer County Ribfest

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1. I was born May 1, 1967, as Samuel Timothy Smith but later took on my dad’s surname. I have had 11 albums debut at number one on the Billboard country album chart. My wife and I won Grammys in 2001 and 2006 for our duets.2. I was born May 3, 1926. I started out in theater but got my break as Schultzie on the “Bob Cummings Show” for which I won two Emmy Awards in the 1950s. Many know me as a maid named Alice.

3. I was born May 6, 1961. I had my breakthrough when I was cast on “ER.” Some people didn’t like my version of Batman but my two Best Actor awards for my role in “The Descendants” helped me forget that.

4. I was born May 29, 1903, and died July 27, 2003. I was briefly a professional boxer, but was better known for my comedy. I was the first honorary veteran named by Congress and I have a ship named after me.

Cover photo courtesy of Columbus Zoo

Featured Band

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1988 brings pure rock to fans, new generation at Mercer County Ribfest

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BY ERIN COXGood Times Staff

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The 1980s had big hair, lots of rock and plenty of headbanging and the members of the band 1988 got tangled up and decided to stay.

The band, 1988, started in 1995 with Dave Belanger, bassist, and Robin Steele, guitarist. Last year, the band added its two other current members, Michael Scott Nelson, drums, and Alex Zander, lead singer.

“We didn’t hit our stride until 2000 when 80’s music was a retro novelty,” Belanger said. “It kind of became cool again.”

For Belanger and Steele, the 80’s rock music was what they started with and what they continue to love. Living in Hollywood from 1989-90, they just caught the tail end of the 80’s rock era but it was enough to make its impact.

Belanger and Steele had a record deal when they were in Hollywood with the band Fashion Police. They wrote their own music then but soon realized that the 80’s rock era was in the past.

“In 1995, I got to the point in my life that I knew I wasn’t going to make money off my own music,” Belanger said. “So I started playing someone else’s music for money.”

Now, 1988 does covers of the 80’s rock hits in tribute to the era of music they loved and others have continued to love.

“For me, that was the music I grew up on and I identified with it so much that when the 90s came around with grunge, I didn’t get it,” Belanger said. “I just never stopped being in the 80s.”

1988 wants to create the same atmosphere Be-langer and Steele remember from the rock concert scene in Hollywood during the 80s.

“I still put on the same clothes I had in the 80s and still have the long hair,” Belanger said. “The 80s was about trying to look your best and I still do that every time I go on stage.”

As for the crowd, Belanger encourages fans to get crazy, headbang and party.

According to 1988’s website, www.1988rocks.com, the band plays danceable material and a help-ing of monster ballads without straying too far from the hard rock theme. Their set list includes songs by

Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Poison, Motley Crue, Guns-N-Roses, Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot and more.

“It’s pure rock and roll,” Belanger said. “There is no pure rock and roll like that in popular music today.”

For Belanger, every show is a chance to show what a rock show used to be and what it should be.

“There are people trying to be that but it’s not what it used to be,” Belanger said. “Now we have all these disposable pop people like Katy Perry.”

Belanger thinks 1988 shows the younger genera-tion a bit of history with the pure rock and roll mu-sic and environment the band creates when perform-ing. Those who remember the 80s can relive it with 1988 and rock out to their favorite songs.

The band is based in Cleveland but does shows all across the state, including Columbus and Ce-lina. 1988 will perform again at the Mercer County Ribfest in Celina starting at 9 p.m. May 17 at the Mercer County Fairgrounds.

“For me, it was the biggest gig of the year,” Belanger said. “The whole town is there and it’s a great atmosphere.”


Cover Story

BY ERIN COXGood Times Staff

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Lions and tigers and… penguins? Oh my!Zoo season is off to a fresh start with new animals,

exhibits and rides coming to various zoos around the area.

As summer nears, the Columbus and Toledo zoos are celebrating the opening of new exhibits and are waiting to host grand openings at the end of May.

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium will open its Heart of Africa exhibit on May 22. The $30 million, 43-acre exhibit features 130 animals, including ze-bras, lions, cheetahs and wildebeests.

“We are extremely excited to share Heart of Africa with our community as well as our guests from near and far,” said Columbus Zoo President and CEO Tom Stalf in a press release. “It has been a number of years since there have been giraffes and zebras at the Columbus Zoo and I am very pleased to announce they are back!”

Guests will have opportunities to ride camels, feed giraffes and get up-close to the lions.

Not only does the exhibit feature animals from Af-rica, but guests will also enter Mudiwa Village, which is a colorful and active plaza filled with the sights and sounds of a bustling African village.

According to a press release, the exhibit will also highlight some of the zoo’s conservation efforts re-lated to the African savanna animals in its care.

On May 23, The Toledo Zoo opens Penguin Beach and Flamingo Key. The opening weekend, May 23-35, features live music and entertainment, keeper talks, animal enrichment, educational activities and more.

The Toledo Zoo has not had a flamingo exhibit in more than a decade. Flamingo Key has more than 20 Caribbean Flamingos, about 15 fluffy grey chicks and five adults with the traditional pink color and long legs, and is decorated to match the Caribbean look.

Penguin Beach allows visitors to walk through the penguin exhibit to view the animals at all angles.

The exhibit includes a gentle wave pool, which encourages the penguins to swim because it mimics ocean conditions the birds would encounter in the wild, and a full underwater viewing area for visitors.

What’s new at the zoo?

Photo courtesy of Columbus Zoo and Aquarium

Photo courtesy of Toledo Zoo

Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical GardenAdult (13-61) $15Child (2-12) and Senior (62+) $11Parking $9

Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Adult (12+) $12.25Kids (2-11) $8.25Children younger than 2 FreeZoo members FreeParking Free

Columbus Zoo and AquariumAdults (10-59) $14.99Children (2-9) $9.99Seniors (60+) $10.99Children younger than 2 FreeParking $8

Fort Wayne Children’s ZooAdults (19-59) $14Children (2-18) $9Seniors (60+) $10.50Children younger than 2 FreeParking Free

Toledo ZooAdults (12-59) $15Children (2-11) $12Seniors (60+) $12Children younger than 2 FreeParking $7


Cover Story

General Admission

The “wall of water” gives visitors the opportunity to see penguins “fly” underwater.

Then visitors can go right through the middle of the exhibit to see the penguins walk on the beach or they can stand on the highest viewing level to watch it all from above.

The May 23 grand opening ceremonies will start at 10:15 a.m. with the penguins walking the red carpet to Penguin Beach. After the walk, the penguins may be hungry so they will be fed at 11 a.m. Throughout the day, the zoo will offer various activities. A full schedule of events is on the zoo’s website, www.toledozoo.org.

The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is opening its new Circle of Wildlife Carousel the last week of May. The carousel has 64 hand-carved wildlife figures representing all kinds of animals and will be grouped together based on their natural environment. Some of the custom animals for this carousel include a pen-guin, swan and a baby gorilla.

“The zoo is very excited to bring this beautiful car-ousel to Cleveland,” said Executive Zoo Director Dr. Chris Kuhar. “The Circle of Wildlife area will provide perfect opportunities for making family memories and add an entirely new dimension to the guest experi-ences the zoo offers.”

The Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo and Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden are both open for the season as well, featuring some new animals this season.

The Cincinnati Zoo welcomed a new baby giraffe in April. Nasha, the name voted on by the public for the giraffe, will make her public, outdoor debut this month.

At the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo, a pair of Cana-dian lynx, a baby colobus monkey, a crocodile skink and a pair of Cabot’s tragon pheasants are featured at the zoo starting this spring.

Photo courtesy of Toledo Zoo

Daily Hours

Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical GardenUntil May 23 10 a.m.-5 p.m.May 24-Sept. 1 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Cleveland Metroparks Zoo May-October 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Columbus Zoo and AquariumMay 9 a.m.-5 p.m.June-August 9 a.m.-7 p.m.

Fort Wayne Children’s ZooSunday-Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Toledo ZooMay and September weekends 10 a.m.-5 p.m.May and September weekdays 10 a.m.-4 p.m.Memorial Day through Labor Day 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Photo courtesy of Columbus Zoo and Aquarium


Concerts

Rally in the Square kicks off May 16

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LIMA — Artspace/Lima is proud to announce the 25th season of Rally in the Square. For a quarter century, Rally in the Square has been a major summer event for downtown Lima.

Rallies will begin May 16 and continue each Friday, ending Aug. 29.

This year will include a diverse schedule of rock and roll, blues, funk and country music. Local favorites, like the Dave Liles Band and The Indoorfins, and favorites from past seasons, The Menus, Naked Karate Girls, 56 Daze and others, will grace the downtown stage.

The band for the first evening on May 16 will be lo-cal Lima favorite, The Hipsters. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. Music starts at 6:30 p.m., rain or shine.

ArtSpace/Lima is a not-for-profit arts organization with a mission to promote the arts in northwest Ohio and to pro-vide artists with a venue to present and to sell their work. ArtSpace/Lima is supported by contributions, sponsor-ships, membership and a grant from the Ohio Arts Council.

For further information, please contact Kay VanMe-ter at 419-222-1721 or at [email protected].

Lima Symphony Orchestra announces 2014-15 season


LIMA - The Lima Symphony Orches-tra is delighted to announce its 2014-15 season, commencing with the spectacular Cirque de la Symphonie.

The 2014-15 season will be a vibrant, engaging and extraordinary season like no other. It will open with Cirque de la Symphonie on Oct. 11 as the performers fill the Civic Center with gravity-defying aerial flyers, acrobats, contortionists, dancers, jugglers, balancers and strong-men. The acts will bring the magic of Cirque to the performance hall, each act will be perfectly choreographed to fiery symphonic favorites and classical mas-terpieces for an evening sure to astound the entire family.

LSO will take the audience on an Orchestral Voyage on Nov. 15, beginning

with Rimsky-Korsakov’s joyous “Russian Easter Overture” and concluding with Respighi’s thrilling “Pines of Rome.”

The Lima Symphony Chorus will join all of the audience’s holiday favorites on Dec. 13 as they return with the beloved Bells, Brass and Bows, featuring a mix of traditional favorites, sacred carols and whimsical twists on familiar standards.

Nothing says New Year’s Eve like the sleek style, sophistication and sex appeal of James Bond as Jeans ‘n Classics joins the orchestra with Shaken Not Stirred: James Bond New Year’s Eve Gala. Celebrate six decades of the famous Spy Who Loved Me with iconic music from the instantly recognizable “Bond Theme” itself to such memory-stirrers as “Goldfinger,” “Live and Let Die,” “For Your Eyes Only,” “A View to a Kill” and “Skyfall,” among others.

The audience can immerse them-selves in the elegance, clarity and grace of Mozart at the shimmering Mozart by Candlelight concerts at Trinity United Methodist Church on Jan. 17, 2015, and enjoy the beautiful restoration of St. Joseph Church in Wapakoneta on Jan. 18, 2015.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with history’s most compelling love stories, from “Romeo and Juliet” to “Swan Lake,” as the LSO presents Music of the Heart on Feb. 14, 2015. Piano soloist Scott Cuellar will join the orchestra with Rachmaninoff’s lush “Second Piano Concerto” as they conclude this ravish-ingly romantic program.

The young and young-at-heart will be captivated by the annual family concert, Down on the Farm, featur-ing not just the orchestra but square dancers, banjo players and even some four-legged friends in this rollicking afternoon romp on March 1, 2015.

The Lima Symphony Orchestra concludes their season on April 11, 2015, with an evening of Bernstein and Beethoven as they perform Leonard Bernstein’s Broadway-style “Chichester Psalms” before they close the season with Beethoven’s life-affirming “8th Symphony.”

Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra concludes Signature Season Classical Series with Beethoven’s Great Ninth


DAYTON – At 8 p.m. May 16 and 17 in the Mead Theatre of the Schuster Center, Artistic Director Neal Gittleman and the Dayton Philharmonic Or-chestra, along with Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Chorus, under the direction of Hank Dahlman, will present The Premier Health Classical Series Concert Beethoven’s Great Ninth.

Soprano Andrea Chenoweth, mezzo-soprano Bran-di Samuel, tenor Jason Slayden and bass Nathan Stark will deliver breathtaking solos in this performance. This concert is the William S. Anderson Endowed Concert with The Milt Kantor Family as associate sponsor.

The final Classical Series concert of the DPO’s 2013-14 Signature Season opens with a work by Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra, a professor of compo-sition at Cornell University. Sierra’s works have been a repertoire mainstay for many classical orchestras. DPO presents “A Joyous Overture,” inspired, in fact, by music from Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony.”

The evening continues with modern-day composer Michael Schelle’s “Swashbuckler!”.

Growing up, New Jersey native Schelle played

keyboards in various regional rock bands, so it stands to reason that he would have been influenced by the likes of Frank Zappa. But here’s the plot twist: Schelle was also influenced by the music of Stravinsky, Bartók and Ives. His “Swashbuckler!,” which Schelle him-self characterizes as “action-packed,” shows off his musical split personality. In a posting on Schelle’s Facebook page, he wrote “The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra has programmed my action-packed SWASHBUCKLER (1984)… Take THAT, Hans Zim-mer, this is way pre-Hans Zimmer pirate music … Rrrrrrrr.”

After intermission, DPO then proudly presents Ludwig van Beethoven’s classic masterpiece “Symphony No. 9.” Before 1824, no composer had ever used voices in a symphony. It is ironic that the first composer, the musical pioneer to first do so, could not hear the effect; he was almost totally deaf. But Ludwig van Beethoven was a fighter.

Refusing to let his physical impairment keep him from doing what he wanted, he had composed eight

symphonies previously as part of an immense body of work. So, on the seventh of May in 1824 in the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna, he sat in front of an orchestra, four vocal soloists and a chorus – his first appearance on any stage in 12 years – and conducted a masterpiece. The

music was his; the words came from Friedrich Schiller’s 1785 poem “Ode To Joy” and some from Beethoven himself. On the stage with Beethoven, Michael Umlauf, the theatre’s Kapellmeister, told the singers and musicians to ignore Beethoven, who gave the tempos for each movement, turned the pages of his score, beat time for the orches-tra…and stood to see the audience applauding through five ovations.

At 7 p.m. before each performance, there will be a Take Note pre-concert talk in the Mead Theatre with DPO Artis-tic Director Gittleman and composer Schelle.

Tickets for Friday’s and Saturday’s Beethoven’s Great Ninth are $9 to $59 and are available at Ticket Center Stage, 937-228-3630 and at www.daytonper-formingarts.org. Senior, teacher and student discounts are available at the box office.

Marriage can be a real killer.That is the opening line on the cover

blurb for “Gone Girl,” a suspense-filled thriller from author Gillian Flynn and in six words gives the reader an idea what kind of stomach-churning ride they are about to take.

On its surface, “Gone Girl” is the story of the disappearance of Amy Dunne and how her husband, Nick, handles the ensuing po-lice investigation, turmoil and media circus. The easy answer is: not well.

The novel opens on the morning of Nick and Amy’s fifth anniver-sary. By the end of page one, Flynn has already introduced a certain amount of tension between the couple on what should be a happy day, letting the reader know their marriage is struggling. Nick leaves the house after breakfast, eventually ending up at the bar he owns with his twin sister, Margo. He is not there for long before a neighbor telephones, telling him the front door of his house is standing wide open and the couple’s cat, a pudgy fluff ball that is never allowed outside, is sitting on the porch. Nick rushes home only to find a half-ironed dress, a teakettle on the stove and overturned furniture in the living room. Amy is gone.

From that point on, “Gone Girl” de-scends into a nightmarish scenario for Nick as he quickly becomes the police detectives’ number one suspect. Each day seemingly brings a new revelation making him appear more guilty. The mess in the living room begins to look like a staged struggled. Clumsily cleaned up blood is found in the kitchen. Even Nick’s infidelity is finally out-ed to the entire world in a media onslaught.

Against Nick’s fight to prove his in-nocence, Flynn employs an interesting tech-nique to tell the back story of the couple. Each chapter is told from a first person per-spective, allowing the reader to understand the character’s thoughts and feelings. Every other chapter is told from first Nick’s point of view and then from the angle of Amy’s diary going back several years. Nick’s fast-paced tale is juxtaposed against the slow unwinding of Amy’s story of their life together. She talks about their first meeting at a party in New York when they were both writers - he as a movie magazine columnist and she as quiz writer for a women’s publi-cation. She shares the heartache as they both lose their jobs in the Great Recession, expe-rience financial setbacks and then move to Missouri to care for Nick’s ailing parents - a world away for the New York City-raised

woman.Flynn is a

tremendously gifted author who uses her own experiences as a magazine writer in New York to capture the essence of Amy’s former life, while also bringing in her birth in Missouri to demonstrate a real feeling for the differ-ences between Midwest and East Coast people and lives. She uses all of the tricks of the trade a crime/thriller novelist: the

discovery of secrets to height-en tension and move the plot in different directions, a cast of suspects beyond Nick that must be thought through and examined and red herrings to throw the readers off the trail of the real criminal. Flynn did such a masterful job with these misdirections, I bought into one of them for more than 100 pages before

suddenly realizing I was off the track.Despite Amy’s disappearance being

the backbone for moving the plot forward, Flynn explores several other subjects with the characters. A devastating economy and its affects on people - both in large cities and in rural communities - is discussed along with the changing of traditional roles between husbands and wives. She also holds nothing back from a scathing rebuke of sensationalized journalism and reality television.

But her most damning exploration in-volves lies - the lies people tell each other and the lies they tell themselves as they move through life. In fact, her characters lie so much she is able to use the literary device of the unreliable narrator to great affect, leaving the reader feeling hurt, just as so many of the characters in the book are pained as well.

My one complaint about “Gone Girl” - and granted, this is a large complaint - is that there really is no protagonist to root for to win. At some point, every character in the novel is easy to hate, with the pos-sible exception of Nick’s sister, Margo, whose cynical outlook on life seems to insulate her from all the self-destruction going on around her. That absence of a hero left me with an empty feeling when I turned the last page, wondering if life re-ally could be so bleak for some people.

But do not let that gripe keep you from reading “Gone Girl.” If you are the type of person who loves twists and turns and a mystery that feels like it could be on the front pages of tomorrow’s newspaper, then this is a great read.


Gone Girl

Turning the Pages

BY KIRK DOUGAL

Under Review

Written by Gillian Flynn(Crown Publishing Group)

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Directed by Marc Webb(Columbia Pictures)

Keeping it Reel

BY ERIN COX

“The Amazing Spider-Man 2” didn’t hit “amaz-ing” but it wasn’t due to a lack of trying.

It was way too long, filled with too many villains and starred top-notch actors who weren’t used to their ability fall-ing short of being amaz-ing but still worth seeing in theaters.

First of all, the movie is way too long. There was so much stuffed into two and a half hours but it wasn’t enough to keep me en-tertained and half of it just seemed unneces-sary.

The movie opens with a sequence between Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield) and Aleksei Sytsevich (Paul Giamatti) and shows off some spe-cial effects. Pausing the action, flipping around the camera angle to show what’s going on and then restarting the action is cool once or maybe twice, but I felt like it happened so many times through-out the movie that it just added to the length of the film unnecessarily.

Sytsevich disappears after that scene until the last few minutes of the film just to be taken down by Spidey again. So why was he in there at all? Giamatti is such a great actor yet he was so unde-rused I was disappointed and wished his character

would’ve been more of a focus.

Then the audience is introduced to Max Dillon (Jamie Foxx), who be-comes Electro, an energy-powered, electric eel/human mutant. I wasn’t convinced that Dillon was evil enough that he could become this villain, which is disappointing because he is the main villain.

When Electro and Spider-Man face off, the scene is anti-climatic and then quickly overshad-

owed by the appear-ance of Harry Osborn as the Green Goblin (Dane DeHaan).

Yes, another villain!

All in one movie, we are intro-duced to Harry Osborn, get three new villains and watch the roller-coaster love story between Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone).

I was so busy trying to keep up with the new characters and having to separate it from the “Spi-der-Man 2” with Tobey Maguire it just became too much.

Then to add to the information overload, the majority of the action happens within the last 30 minutes.

I still enjoyed the movie, though, and that is due greatly to the won-derful cast. Garfield and Stone have believable chemistry, Garfield slips

into the Spidey suit much better than Maguire and Stone captures audience’s attention as always.

DeHaan has the villain character spot on and I hope the Green Goblin will be featured in the next film in the series.

The movie also focuses on Peter Parker trying to learn more about his parents. While this isn’t the most exciting part of the movie, I still enjoyed it because I had always wondered what happened to them.

The soundtrack is quite possibly the best part of the movie. It really adds to the excitement, the heartbreak and the thrill. It truly hits each emotion just right, which was good since each scene seemed prolonged anyway, I could focus on the music to try to keep entertained.

“The Amazing Spider-Man 2” is fighting the fact that it is a reboot done way, way, way too soon. (And I could’ve added about 10 more ways there.) I think that can be blamed for the reason so much informa-tion, villains and differ-ent storylines have been packed into this sequel. It is an attempted to make it more exciting than the first round.

I would suggest go-ing to see it in theaters, but make sure you are well rested to make sure you can get through the lulls.


Arts

Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery presents Sky High


COLUMBUS — Sky High is an all-encompassing visual expedition of Earth’s vast upper atmosphere known as the sky. The artists in the exhibition use a range of techniques that explore the assorted ele-ments of the sky. From the stunning displays of stars and planets to clouds and tornadoes, this exhibition will encourage you to “look up.”

Artists in the show include: Rosemarie Bloch (Okeana), Rod Bouc (Columbus), Judith Maureen Brandon (Cleveland), Edward M. Charney (New Carlisle), Robert Coates (Fairborn), Tess Corts (Dayton), Susan Danko (Parma), Julie Friedman (Medina), Diana Duncan Holmes (Cin-cinnati), David LaPalombara (Athens), Jessica Larva (Columbus), Danielle Rante (Columbus), Kate Shannon (Mansfield), Wendy Collin Sorin (Durham, NC), Diane Stemper (Oxford), Joel Whitaker (Dayton)

and Sean Wilkinson (Dayton).Join the Riffe Gallery for the opening of

Sky High from 5-7 p.m. July 31.On Aug. 1, join us for a free tour of the

exhibition led by exhibition curator Kay Koeninger, a professor of art at Sinclair Community College.

Sky High will be open from July 31-Oct. 19.

The Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery showcases the work of Ohio’s artists and the collec-tions of the state’s museums and galleries. The Riffe Gallery is lo-cated in the Vern Riffe Center for

the Government and the Arts, across from the Statehouse on High Street in downtown Columbus.

The gallery is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tues-day, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday and noon-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

For more information, please con-tact Elizabeth Weinstein at [email protected] or 614/728-4463.

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Sudoku Answer

Birthday trivia answers: 1. Tim McGraw 2. Ann B. Davis 3. George Clooney 4. Bob Hope

Answers from page 2

ArtSpace/Lima features 59th annual Spring ShowInformation submitted

LIMA — The ArtSpace/Lima Spring Show 2014 is now open until June 7.

Spring Show 2014 is the 59th annual exhibit of that name at ArtSpace/Lima. En-tries were accepted from within a 100-mile radius of Lima in the following categories: painting, drawing, printmaking, photogra-phy, ceramics, sculpture, textiles, digital

art and mixed media. Fifty-one area artists entered 137 pieces in those categories. Of those, 51 pieces were selected for exhibi-tion in the show. An additional 22 works are on display in the Salon des Refuses in ArtZone.

Jurors for the Spring Show 2014 exhibit included Dennis Wojtkiewicz, professor of art at Bowling Green State University where he has taught since 1988. His work

has been shown in international art fairs in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Palm Beach, Santa Fe and Toronto. He is the recipient of two Ohio Arts Council Individual Fellow-ships and has both paintings and drawings represented in major public, private and corporate collections.

The other juror was Carol Griffith, pro-fessor of fine art at the Columbus College of Art and Design, who has won top awards

from the Ohio Arts Council, Butler Institute of American Art and the Ohio State Fai. Her work is in the collections of the Co-lumbus Metropolitan Library, Huntington Bank building, Ashland University and Carnegie-Melon University.

The exhibit also features a Salon des re-fuses, mounted in the ArtZone Gallery, and consisting of work not originally juried into the show, but re-juried into the Salon.

DAAG, library show off students’ artThe 2nd Annual High School and Middle School Art Exhibition is now be-ing featured at the Delphos Area Art Guild and the Delphos Public Library. Jefferson, St. John’s, Fort Jennings, Ottoville, Vantage, Van Wert and home-school students submitted their artwork, which was judged by guest jurors. The artwork will be on display through May 21. (File photo)

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