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Dayton Daily News, May 04, 2005

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MUSE MACHINE GETS THE WORD OUT. It will probably take a lot more than inspiring words to convince the Ohio legislature not to slash arts funding again in the new budget, but the Muse Machine is doing its part, with an assist from the Ohio Arts Council in Columbus. OAC officials were so impressed by the Muse Machine's annual Community Report, which is just off the presses, that they asked Susan Pringle, executive director of the Dayton-based arts-education organization, if they could use it in...

The Grape Escape ; Former Greenville Residents Are Enjoying the Fruit of Their Retirement Labor (and Bottling It) in Napa Valley

John and Barbara Witt envisioned a dream retirement: Sell their Greenville home, pack up and move to their "little place nestled among the vineyards" of warm and beautiful California wine country. Barbara Witt laughs as she recalls the three-year search for just the rig ht plot of land. In the end, "we ended up buying the worst property we looke d at," she says.

Star Light, Star Bright, There's No 'Star Wars' for This Guy Tonight

The Force may be with you, but it's never been with me. It's not that I'm raging against the George Lucas machine. Rather, the Star Wars hysteria that has run unchecked among the masses for the past few light years has yet to pique my interest. I shrug my shoulders, rub my eyes, yawn and ask, Jabba the What?

Plastic Surgery Can't Assure Inner Beauty ; Quest to Be Gorgeous Doesn't Guarantee Happiness, Author Says

In her new book, Makeovers at the Beauty Counter of Happiness (Algonquin, $15.95), author/illustrator Ilene Beckerman cleverly conveys her important message: Beauty comes from within. She comes to town Thursday. Q. What prompted you to write this book?

Life After College: The Party's Over

A few friends and I recently got together in Chicago for the opening of the art company that my friend and her family created to sell her father's artwork. Truth be told, we really just wanted an excuse to see each other after having been separated for so many months. There is this fear that you will never see your friends again after college, that people will move on and forget. This trip was our way of reassuring ourselves that we wouldn't fall into that trap. In some senses it did that, bu...