BLOOMSBURG — The Journey Bank Arts in Bloom Performing Arts Series at Commonwealth University-Bloomsburg will open with a performance of “Behind the Lines: A 9/11 Story” on Friday, Sept. 18, at 7:30 p.m., in Carver Hall, K.S. Gross Auditorium. “Behind The Lines: A 9/11 Story” is ...
A few years ago, a pop culture store owner in Wisconsin mentioned to Jason Ganos, a well-known Nintendo game collector, that he had a box of Super Mario cartridges that had been sitting in storage for years. It stopped Ganos in his tracks. It turned out to be an ultrarare collection of 97 ...
WILLIAMSPORT — Beatles or Stones? More than six decades after the question first divided rock fans, the debate is coming to the stage in Williamsport. “Beatles vs. Stones — A Musical Showdown” comes to the Journey Bank Community Arts Center on Saturday, Sept. 12 at 7:30 p.m., bringing the music of the two biggest bands of the British Invasion together for an evening of hits, harmonies, guitar riffs and rock ‘n’ roll rivalry. The nationally touring production features acclaimed Beatles tribute Abbey Road squaring off against Satisfaction — The International Rolling ...
At the end of the block in David Robert Mitchell’s “The End of Oak Street,” is a cul-de-sac with a telephone pole in the middle and wires radiating out like the cables of a big top. It’s a fitting touch for a breakneck, carnivalesque movie made with throwback showmanship. Summer ...
NEW YORK (AP) — It happened out of necessity. Academy Award-winner Morgan Freeman was in Clarksdale, Mississippi, 25 years ago when some out-of-towners asked where they could hear blues music. Musicians were abundant; venues were not. “There was no place where we could guarantee that you could go in and hear it,” he told The Associated Press. “So, we had to establish that.” Freeman and his business partners, then-Mayor Bill Luckett and Howard Stovall, were inspired to open a juke joint in Clarksdale called Ground Zero Blues Club. Then, much more recently, they created ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The inferno rages onscreen three minutes into “ Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear.” Dashcam footage lifted from a police car shows the blaze: It’s 2008, and Barker has survived a plane crash in South Carolina. Four others did not. And then, a cut. The documentary, which follows the Blink-182 drummer from 2017 to 2026, is a celebration of Barker’s life before and after the life-altering accident, a central event in a career full of them. The film began as a mirror of his memoir, 2015’s “Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums,” but ...
