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In a period of budget shortfalls and spending cuts, a local art school is attempting to fill in some of the gaps. When administrators at the C. Barton McCann School of Art heard the Harrisburg Patriot News was discontinuing its annual Scholastic Art and Writing competition for high school students, they decided they needed to offer a program in its place. The Petersburg-area school partnered with Fulton Bank to hold the Arts Alive 2009 competition in April.
In New York, the minimum age to obtain a driver’s license is 16, but “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” makes an argument for lowering that age to 5. That way, parents wouldn’t have to chaperone their children to this treacly and barely amusing animated 3-D movie.
It ran on Broadway for so long it became a New York institution and a cultural punch line. But for all its self-absorption and the ways its “edge” has dulled over the decades, “A Chorus Line” still has the power to move, amuse and thrill.
A cast of seven kept us laughing through both acts of Larry Shue’s “The Nerd,” now playing in the Cabaret at Millbrook Playhouse.
In “Public Enemies,” two threats to law and order loom over Depression-era America. One is John Dillinger, a gallant bank robber, and his gang. The other is a new national police force being assembled by an ambitious administrator named J. Edgar Hoover.
When Kyle Snyder’s band rocked the State Theatre in April 2008, he wasn’t even there to join the jam.
Country music prides itself on lyrics that are sincerely honest. It is a genre where the words and all the joys and pains those words are derived from are just as crucial as the instruments.
For the third summer in a row, downtown State College will play host to the Summer’s Best Music Fest on Saturday.
Audio Imagery is definitely painting pictures with words and music. And with its 2009 CD “Electric Ladyland,” the pictures are satellite-streamed from a hot label video shoot.
Most popular musicals start on the stage and — if they’re lucky — end up as a movie. Not so with State College Community Theatre’s third summer production “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” Like “Singing in the Rain,” “Gigi” and “Meet Me in Saint Louis,” this tap-dancing 1920s spoof began as a movie and only later become a Broadway hit.
Would you like a great recipe for enjoyable and intriguing summer entertainment? That’s what’s on the menu next week from the State College Community Theatre.
It’s been many years since I’ve gone to a play at Millbrook Playhouse, so I wasn’t prepared for new roads, shopping centers and having to ask for directions. I was only a few minutes late, but the cast of “High School Musical” had just completed the first song when a kindly usherette led me through the dark to a seat on an aisle.
A set of furniture is the common link in A.R. Gurney’s play “The Dining Room,” the Pennsylvania Centre Stage’s second production of its 24th summer season.
LOS ANGELES The powerful sedative Diprivan was found in Michael Jackson's home, a law enforcement official said Friday as the city planned for a massive crowd at the singer's memorial service.
LONDON Forget those reports that Swedish supergroup ABBA will be reuniting to cover Michael Jackson's sold-out concert dates.
NEW ORLEANS Queen Latifah dropped by the Essence Music Festival on Friday to help celebrate its 15th year of uplifting and empowering the African-American community through issues-filled seminars by day and high-powered musical performances by night.
Local aspiring stars will compete for the chance to win career-making opportunities over the next two weekends in a multi-arts extravaganza.
Teenage superstar Miley Cyrus will appear at the Bryce Jordan Center in November in one of only two stops in Pennsylvania on her upcoming tour.
It was a bright day for dark music. As the sun was falling behind the mountains and a peaceful, warm spring day in State College was heading toward night, the walls of the Bryce Jordan Center shook. The water in the restroom toilets rippled. And inside the arena, dark purple lights lit up tufts of smoke as the sounds of metal band Chimaira began the culminating event of a day chock full of heavy metal music.
When most people hear the word “diaspora” (Hebrew for “scattered”) they think of the Jewish communities in the cities of North America and Western Europe. While these communities do represent the majority of the world’s Jewish population, one might be surprised to find out just how diverse the face of modern Judaism is.
A list of events in and around Centre County. To submit information for DetailsDetails, e-mail Heather Longley or call 814-231-4617.
A list of concerts in and around central Pennsylvania
PRAGUE, The 44th International Film Festival opened Friday in the Czech Republic with a week of events planned, including an award for French actress Isabelle Huppert and a world premiere by Milos Forman.
Weekly charts for the nation's most popular videos as they appear in next week's issue of Billboard magazine. Reprinted with permission:
LOS ANGELES Arraignment has been postponed for "300" actor Gerard Butler, who's been charged in Los Angeles with misdemeanor battery for a scuffle with a paparazzo.
LOS ANGELES The private pathologist who conducted a second autopsy on David Carradine's body said Friday that Thai authorities have determined the actor died of asphyxia and so far, he agrees.
BRUNO (R). The big question hanging over Sacha Baron Cohen's quasi-sequel to "Borat" - this one following the gay Austrian supermodel and his partner on a visit to the United States, pushing the homophobic buttons of everyone they meet - is not whether it'll be funny (you know it will), but whether it'll be too offensive for the mainstream
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