Russell Brickey

Jul 9, 2024 | vindy.com | Russell Brickey

BOARDMAN — Township police were called to Jay’s Famous Hot Dogs on Boardman-Canfield Road Monday afternoon because of a protest vehicle driven by employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Hell on Wheels is the name given by PETA to a box truck wrapped with images of pigs crammed into an animal transport and outfitted with speakers that blasted the screams of pigs being slaughtered.

Mar 29, 2024 | vindy.com | Russell Brickey

Students and community members gathered Wednesday night on the Youngstown State University campus to hear a man exonerated from a life sentence speak about his experiences in the legal system. In 1995, 19-year-old Clifton Hudson was gunned down in East Cleveland. The police had few clues to go on except for a handful of eyewitnesses, according to the National Registry of Exonerations.

Mar 23, 2024 | vindy.com | Russell Brickey

YOUNGSTOWN — Over 300 people, many of them alumni, gathered in the McKay Auditorium on the Youngstown State University campus Thursday night to hear Patrick Durrell, professor of physics and astronomy, discuss the upcoming solar eclipse. Normally Durrell’s research focuses on stars and star clusters in nearby galaxies, according to his YSU biography.

Feb 24, 2024 | tribtoday.com | Russell Brickey

Feb 24, 2024 RUSSELL BRICKEY Correspondent YOUNGSTOWN — More than 100 people filled the DeBartolo Hall Auditorium on the Youngstown State University campus Thursday evening to hear a New York Times bestselling author talk about science fiction in the new millennium. John Scalzi is a Hugo Award-winning writer whose novels have topped the charts and whose short stories have been adapted for the Netflix series “Love & Rockets,” among many other accolades. The evening’s talk, which covered the...

Nov 19, 2023 | metromonthly.net | Russell Brickey |Kelsay Books

Several hundred party-goers, mostly international students from the Asian subcontinent, met Nov. 12 in the Chestnut Room of Youngstown State University’s Kilcawley Center to celebrate the festivals of Dashain and Tihar. “Dashain & Tihar Night” was presented by YSU’s Nepalese Student Association. Upbeat Indian music filled the expansive room as students performed classically-inspired dances in colorful traditional dress.