Alexandra Shostak is a 2011 Ohio University graduate with big dreams for her writing. However, her claim to fame as of now is the illustrative work she has done for a new young-adult science fiction book, "Tangled Tides," written by Karen Amanda Hooper.

Stuart's Opera House is presenting an evening of bluegrass music at 8 p.m. this Friday with International Bluegrass Music Association award winners Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out. Athens County's own The Hart Brothers will open the show.

If you combine big energy, people born with a '70s mentality and a touch of random tendencies, you might just come up with Mind Fish, a Toledo-based rock band that released their second album on Jan. 24, three years after forming in Athens.

The African American Inventors and Inventions Traveling Museum will be at Ohio University on Wednesday, Feb. 8, in Baker University Theatre Lounge from noon to 6 p.m. as part of the Black History Month celebrations.

Though some may see a trashcan or broomstick as a regular, inanimate object with little purpose beyond the obvious, others have been able to find music and life in them through STOMP, the touring Broadway hit that's coming to Athens this week.

Stuart's Opera House is hosting "An Acoustic Café Evening Tour" this Friday night featuring Erin McKeown, Carrie Rodriguez and Kelly Joe Phelps.

Once upon a time, short stories were a staple of America's reading diet – or at least more so than they are today. Good, big-name writers like Fitzgerald, Lardner, Parker and O'Hara cranked them out, and popular magazines carried them.

Stuart's Opera House in Nelsonville is hosting the Cabin Fever Festival this Saturday at 6 p.m. This event is now in its third year and features an all-Ohio lineup of bands and musicians including Buffalo Killers, Lydia Loveless, Nick Tolford & Company, The Sundresses, Sportfishing USA, and legendary local singer-songwriter J.D. Hutchison.

Local DJs and musicians are coming together at Jackie O's Pub and Brewery tonight (Thursday, Jan. 19) to help save Athens County Music in the Schools program, according to a news release.

Smell that heavenly aroma wafting from the kitchen?