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Buffalo Rock Brewing Co. opens second location in Oregon
Once the dignitaries had spoken, the ribbon had been cut, and the bar was declared open, a 3-year-old French bulldog named Maxwell set to work knocking back a fresh-brewed River Fog IPA. Maxwell declined to comment for The Blade, but his presence at the grand opening of the Buffalo Rock Brewing Co. taproom on Seaman Road in Oregon spoke volumes about what kind of place the new taproom aspires to be: a relaxed, community-oriented establishment where people can go to chat, hang out, listen to music, and have a good time. The taproom takes its name from that of Roche de Boeuf (literally, rock of beef), the frequently photographed big rock in the Maumee River near Waterville. The grand opening of the Oregon location was attended by about 80 humans and four canines.
Role playing: Complex characters enliven beloved Italian opera
Audiences have been known to boo baritone Corey Crider. “They love it when I die,” he said of the audience. Crider seems affable, yet sometimes, people say, he can be a villain with no redeeming qualities. That is when he portrays Baron Scarpia in Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca at the Valentine Theatre Oct. 18 and 20. He’s the character who lusts after the titular character, Floria Tosca, and is the main reason she and her lover, the painter Mario Cavaradossi, can be together only in death.
Special Events: Search for braaaains at Imagination Station's Science After Dark: Zombies
Join the Toledo Ghost Hunters Society as they discuss various paranormal investigations around the Glass City on Saturday at 2:30 at the West Toledo Branch Library, located at 1320 Sylvania Ave. Admission is free, but registration is required. Ages 18+. For more information, visit toledolibrary.org. ■ Come to Sylvania for great autumn fun at the Sylvania Fall Festival on Saturday and Sunday in the downtown area. For nearly 40 years, the Sylvania fall fest has been the place to enjoy music, arts and crafts, food, and games. Saturday runs from 4 to 10 p.m. and Sunday runs from 10 a.m. to...
Review: 'Tosca' remains fresh on Toledo Opera stage
The Toledo Opera will open its 2024-2025 season with Tosca, an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, Friday. The opera debuted 124 years ago, but the old warhorse — the opera, not Floria Tosca — never seems to age. Maybe it’s because of the plot. Maybe it's because of Puccini’s drama-heavy score. Maybe it’s because companies like the TOA and directors such as Jeffrey Buchman, conductors like Geoffrey McDonald, singers like Brendan Boyle, Lindsey Anderson, Corey Crider, and other talented cast mates and chorus, keep the work one of the world’s most popular. Maybe it’s all of the above. At any rate, TOA’s production strikes all the right notes, keeping the production set in Napoleonic days, using the traditional sets, and imbuing the chief of police, Baron Scarpia, with the perfect amount of sleaze.
Rock of ages: Expert on Ethiopia shares insights into rock-hewn structures
With a rich history of arts and architecture dating to before the Queen of Sheba, seeing Ethiopia's treasures safely outside of the African country is always a treat. Even Michael Gervers, a professor of history and an expert on Ethiopia working at the University of Toronto-Scarborough, has not trekked that country's mountains and deserts since 2020, when civil war erupted. “I am very happy about this exhibition in Toledo,” said Gervers, who will be delivering a lecture, Rock-Hewn Churches and Sacred Groves: Architecture as the Home of Religion and Art in Ethiopia, at the Toledo Museum of Art from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday. “It is very rare in North America. “It is like a banquet. It is a joy,” he said of the collection of 225 historical and contemporary items being exhibited as part of the Toledo Museum of Art's exhibit, Ethiopia at the Crossroads.
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