Dayton Air Force Museum Turns 100
Happy birthday to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force! The world’s oldest and largest military aviation museum - and one of the most-visited free attractions in the state of Ohio - celebrates…
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May the Fourth be with You! Celebrate Star Wars Day in Dayton
MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU! It's May 4th ... better known as Star Wars Day ... and here are three ways to celebrate in Dayton today! Dayton Brick Shop, located at 5519 Bigger Road in Kettering, is…
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Dayton Art Institute Kicks Off Exhibition Season
The Dayton Art Institute, one of Dayton's oldest cultural attractions and one of the premier fine arts museums in the Midwest, just opened its 2023 special exhibition season with an expansive touring exhibition, New Beginnings: An American Story of Romantics and Modernists in the West , featuring…
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Dayton Ballet Celebrates 85 Years of Dance
Reflecting on the legacy of Dayton Ballet. Wow. 85 years. I’m not sure if Dayton Ballet founders Miss Jo and Miss Hermene Schwarz imagined the impact their Experimental Group of Young Dancers would have on future generations of Daytonians and more. Did they realize, in 1937, that they were laying a…
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Celebrate National Plan for Vacation Day!
Happy National Plan for Vacation Day, celebrated annually on the last Tuesday in January! It's a day to encourage Americans to plan their vacation days for the whole year at the start of the year - and to inspire them to use those days to explore the USA. National Plan for Vacation Day highlights…
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Jurassic Quest Brings Dinosaurs to Dayton!
You're gonna need a bigger weekend! The world-famous, life-size dinosaurs of Jurassic Quest–billed as the world’s largest, most-realistic dinosaur event–return to the Dayton Convention Center the weekend of February 3-5. Jurassic Quest features more than 100 life-size animatronic dinosaurs that are…
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'The Black Tour', A Two-Day Residency in Dayton, Celebrates Black Culture
Happy New Year 2023 from all of us at Dayton Contemporary Dance Company! The DCDC dancers are back in the studios from their winter hiatus and are already rehearsing for a variety of things including the International Association of Blacks in Dance, taking place January 26 & 28 in Toronto, Ontario…
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Looking Forward, Looking Back: Hello 2023, Farewell 2022
It’s that time of year: ringing out the old, ringing in the new, compiling “best of“ lists for the year gone by, and eagerly looking ahead to what the new year holds. After the tribulations of 2020 and 2021, we’d have to say that 2022, overall, was a good year. While perhaps not back to pre-COVID…
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6 Things to Do in Dayton After Christmas
The holiday season reaches its high point this weekend with Christmas, but the holiday spirit doesn’t have to end on Sunday–there are a plethora of things to do and see around the Dayton area during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. With the two holidays falling on weekends this year…
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6 Ways to Create a December to Remember in Dayton
Holiday shopping, office parties, family get-togethers, wrapping up end-of-year projects at work … the holidays can, quite frankly, be an exhausting time of year! Be sure to make time for some fun and relaxation. This month is overflowing with things to do, and our December event roundup offers you…
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