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State provides funding to Community Arts Center, others

Gov. Tom Wolf announced the approval of $20 million in grant funding through the COVID-19 Cultural and Museum Preservation Grant Program for cultural organizations and museums to offset lost revenue caused by the COVID-19 pandemic Tuesday, according to a news release. The Community Arts ...

Wellsboro to move free concerts to Saturdays

Due to the enthusiastic response it has received for its free Friday summer night concert series, the Deane Center for the Performing Arts, 104 Main St., Wellsboro, has announced a new free series on Saturday afternoons from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in October, featuring live entertainment on its ...

Farnsworth’s calm dignity key to ‘The Grey Fox’

The 1983 sleeper “The Grey Fox” has long been unavailable in all its peerless beauty, because it was never released on DVD. Until now. Beautifully filmed by cinematographer Frank Tidy (and almost equaling his gorgeous work on 1979’s “The Duellists”), this Canadian chestnut brings ...

Country music’s night to party sobers up amid pandemic

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In a pre-pandemic world, the Academy of Country Music Awards advertised itself as country music’s night to party with gambling, after-parties and a Las Vegas-style attitude. This year the red carpet, crowds and gambling are all replaced with COVID-19 tests, ...

Friday concert to offer wide variety

For the past 56 years, Bob Rubin and Steve Ziemak have been performing music but usually not together — until 2014 that is. That year, they formed Take2 and began performing as a duo, playing songs from Stephen Foster to the Beatles to Linda Ronstadt’s “Blue Bayou.” At 5:45 p.m. ...

Man from area produces MTV documentary

Produced by Rick Krim of Loyalsock Township, whose parents owned Krims Toys, “Biography: I Want My MTV,” premiered on Tuesday, Sept. 8 on A&E. Rick got his start from Joan Myers, also from Williamsport, who hired Krim to work at MTV back when she worked there. “Biography: I Want My ...