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LH couple donates $11.75M to benefit PSU’s Palmer Museum

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State has received a bequest of $11.75 million from the late Alvin L. and Jean Y. Snowiss, longtime donors to the University. The gift builds upon their support for the Palmer Museum of Art, which spans four decades, and expands the endowment of an already-established scholarship in their name. Alvin, an attorney and lifelong resident of Lock Haven, died in May 2025. He was preceded in death by his wife, Jean, in 2016, who was also a lifelong resident of Lock Haven. The gift from the estate of the Snowisses, who were both named honorary Penn State alumni in ...

Feeling a little bleak about the world? There’s a film festival for that

Bleak Week, a film festival celebrating “cinema of despair,” started as a contrarian response to cries for feel-good movies after the pandemic. Programmers at the American Cinematheque, a nonprofit arts group that curates for several historic theaters in Los Angeles, heard the cries for ...

Fans of ‘00s Death Cab for Cutie take note: Their new album is about grief — and it’s for you

NEW YORK (AP) — They usually hold court in theaters, but for the last few years, the beloved indie act Death Cab for Cutie has moonlit as an arena rock band. That’s because they took their career-defining albums 2003’s “Transatlanticism,” and later, 2005’s “Plans,” on an anniversary run — recognizing that in the decades since their release, the records have only grown larger, resonating with new audiences. “There was such a sense of there being a power greater than us, not necessarily in a spiritual sense, but in the communing with the audience each night,” said ...