Long before Jack and Meg White made it fashionable, Scott Lucas and Joe Daniels made serious waves as Indie Rock duo Local H. Anything’s possible at a Local H show; tickets for their 2007 morning gig at Cellular Field were available only by finding Lucas on the street and addressing him, “Attention all planets of the Solar Federation, we have assumed control.” The countdown is on.  

The seeds of Chicago quartet Strange Arrangement were planted in 1996, when the members were still in high school. By the end of high school, the band was solidified, but the members headed to Iowa to study at the School for Music Vocation. By 2000, the band members had gone their separate ways to find jobs in music. It appeared Strange Arrangement was finished. But in 2005, all four members ended up in the same city once again — Chicago.  

Sometimes you have to leave Ohio — and Cincinnati — to discover how many interesting and unusual connections there are between the Buckeye State and the larger world of modern/contemporary arts and design.   

James Flynn’s film directorial debut, Eastern College, tells the story of a small group of recent college gradu ates who are about to go their separate ways. Shot on location at Flynn’s alma mater, Miami University, Eastern College manages to avoid the clich�s of many college set coming-of-age come dies, putting a personal spin on a well-worn genre.