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Black clarinetist to discuss work

In a soon-to-be-released episode of the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State’s “Meeting the Moment with Michael Mwenso” livestream, the performance artist-historian will talk with clarinetist Anthony McGill, the New York Philharmonic’s first African-American principal player, a news release from the center said. The free online event, at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 23, will be broadcast via the Zoom conference app. Questions will be taken in real time from audience members via the chat function. Visit “Meeting the Moment” at cpa.psu.edu/events/meetingthemoment5 for more ...

Authenticity, strong acting lift ‘The Dig’ up

In 1939, workers on a British estate unearthed a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon burial site. Among many other items, it contained the remains of a wooden ship and a wealth of priceless artifacts: a sword, a scabbard, a helmet and a large, ornate belt buckle made of solid gold. The so-called Sutton Hoo site constitutes one of the most significant archeological finds of the modern age; but despite subsequent squabbling over who could keep the cache, this lesser-known historical episode hardly seems the stuff of spellbinding cinema. Yet Netflix’s brand-new “The Dig” is just ...

Uptown musicians plan Eagles tribute concerts

The Uptown Music Collective will bring this year’s People’s Choice performance, The Long Run: Music of the Eagles, to the stage of the Community Arts Center at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 12 and 13. According to a news release, this socially distant performance will have limited in-person tickets ...

Ice sculptures coming to Wellsboro’s streets

Love will be in the air in downtown Wellsboro on Feb. 13 during Valentine’s Day weekend. Seven different sculptures, symbols of love and romance, will be carved from about 20 blocks of ice weighing 3.23 tons on sidewalks in front of Main Street businesses. The sculptures will stay right ...

Washington’s performance a highlight of excellent ‘Little Things’

You always get your money’s worth from John Lee Hancock. Though not exactly a marquee name, he’s the writer and/or director behind such satisfying titles as “The Blind Side,” “A Perfect World,” “Saving Mr. Banks,” “The Rookie” and Netflix’s true-life manhunt saga “The Highwaymen” (2019). “The Little Things” is Hancock’s latest, starring a knockout trio of past Oscar-winners: Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto. Even though less than half of nationwide critics approved, its Rotten Tomatoes audience-rating stands at 80 percent; I fall firmly ...

Thousands make ‘house floats’ for Mardi Gras

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — You just can’t keep a good city down, especially when Mardi Gras is coming. All around New Orleans, thousands of houses are being decorated as floats because the coronavirus outbreak canceled the elaborate parades mobbed by crowds during the Carnival season leading to ...