WILLIAMSPORT — In 2031, Williamsport’s world-famous Repasz Band will celebrate its 200th year of continuous existence; but in the meantime this year, the local ensemble honors yet another anniversary — America’s 250th — with a robust slate of concerts in June, July and August. With ...
RENOVO — What happens when the person at the center of a murder case is someone you once trusted — someone you once called a friend? In a gripping and deeply personal new true-crime memoir, “Fallen Star: Author, Activist, Murderer,” authors Donna M. Kshir and Lee Cougardawn Roberts ...
“Disclosure Day” invites you into its world with a kick to the face. Or maybe it’s a stomp. Whatever it is, this opening sequence, in a garish professional wrestling ring, is bound to wake you up and make you wonder, first, if you’re in the right movie, and second, if Steven Spielberg has lost it. Don’t worry, he hasn’t. In fact, he’s on fire, making a movie that feels like the kinds he used to churn out regularly in the first half of his career. And he doesn’t make you guess for long where he’s going: The camera soon finds the one person in this frenzied crowd who ...
WILLIAMSPORT — Otto Bookstore will host AI Awareness Night: A Community Experience on Tuesday, June 16, from 6 to 8 p.m. The free event is designed to engage families, educators and community members in an accessible and welcoming exploration of artificial intelligence and its impact on learning, creativity and everyday life. The evening will open with a keynote address by Frank Baker, author and media literacy educator, followed by a moderated panel discussion on what AI means for the local community. Panel topics will include AI in everyday life, its impact on jobs, business and ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood directors on Tuesday reached a four-year tentative contract agreement with studios and streaming services. The deal struck between the Directors Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers came four weeks after talks began. The talks were the first under new DGA President Christopher Nolan, who took the job in September. Along with similar four-year deals — longer than the industry three — ratified in recent weeks by unions representing writers and actors, the DGA agreement adds to the likelihood of long-term labor ...
BERLIN (AP) — A pop-up art show featuring contemporary art, including video and audio installations, photography and traditional oil paintings, is set to open at Germany’s Bellevue Palace this week before the German presidential residence closes for renovation. At a press preview on Monday, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he was pleased that the mostly emptied-out Berlin residence was being opened to art and to the public. “We need art,” Steinmeier said. “A democracy without free art loses its capacity for self-criticism, and art without freedom loses its ...
