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A member of the Writers Guild of America, East, Inc., native Daytonian Joe Aiello is the author of numerous screenplays, non-fiction books, novels, TV sitcom pilots, news features, and documentaries. Of all his professional pursuits, he enjoys freelance writing the most and has written for such papers, websites, and magazines as Impact Weekly, NewsMax, Greentree Gazette, Best Kitchens & Baths, Examiner.com (covering baseball in Southwest Florida), Housetrends, Daytonian Style, Modern Plastics, and Life with Style. He fills his spare time coaching College, A, AA amateur and semi-pro baseball teams; answering trivia quizzes; and denigrating himself attempting to play golf.
Facing Life’s Challenges: A Musical Guide to Dealing with It All I have a personal mantra: Nothing’s Ever Easy. There aren’t web pages enough for me to catalog all of the instances in my own life where fate intervened, and I snapped defeat from the jaws of victory rather than the other way around. I’ll… (continue…)
DPO presents Disco Ball featuring Jeans ‘N Classics It was the last mass popular music movement driven by the post-World-War-Two baby boom generation. It was Disco, a genre of dance music influenced by Latin, funk, and soul music with a steady four-on-the-floor beat and a heavy, syncopated bass line. Those of you who lived through… (continue…)
She has never had a movie made about her. No Sissy Spacek to portray her. But, like Loretta Lynn who has, Kathy Mattea has a familial heritage that stretches back to America’s coal-mining regions. And a musical heritage and style that, like Lynn, includes country and gospel, but woven in with folk and bluegrass. Suzy… (continue…)
DPO presents Spotlight: DPO Quartet and Principals Look. Up in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’ a…bird and a plane. Darn! Ever since I was a kid, I have looked forward to seeing, and yet never actually have seen, a Super Hero. The flying kind or otherwise. I have seen a Super… (continue…)
DPO presents Sons of Russia and Tchaikovsky’s Final Statement In 1994, Kevin Bacon stated that he had worked with everybody in Hollywood or someone who had worked with them. That spawned a trivia game known as Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Pioneering scientific research has suggested that all human civilization is a small-world type of… (continue…)
If you want to hear some of the very best Celtic music, you need to be at the Schuster Center this weekend for the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra’s (DPO) presentation of Celtic Vistas with Cathie Ryan…
The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra presents Queen: A Rock and Symphonic Spectacular – and we have TICKETS TO GIVE AWAY!
On February 17-18, Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra will perform the entire score to the MGM film The Wizard of Oz as it projects on a large screen above the orchestra…
On Thursday, February 9 at 8 pm in the Schuster Center, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra will present The Music of Pink Floyd with Windborne, the second concert in the DPO’s Rockin’ Orchestra Series.
DPO presents Concertmaster’s Choice at site of Orchestra’s birth To paraphrase Daphne du Maurier, “Last night I dreamt I went to Viterbo again.” Viterbo is a little town among the hills forty miles north of Rome. It’s the site of a five-sided villa built in the Renaissance for the use of Cardinal Alexander Farnese. And,… (continue…)
