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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 ...

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 ...

Art league to host illustrator

The Bald Eagle Art League invites all artists, children’s book lovers and illustrators to meet Peter Grimord a children’s book illustrator, author and publisher from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Feb. 4, at the Thomas Taber Museum, 858 W. Fourth St., Williamsport. Grimord has about 30 years experience ...

Cinematography, score save ‘News of the World’ from tired cliches

Despite a cool plot-hook and the fact that this is Tom Hanks’ first Western, the best things about “News of the World” are its cinematography and its score. And then at the end, the somewhat pedestrian script suddenly kicks into high gear, making “News” another satisfying entry in ...