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Express Compressed Podcast celebrates first birthday in May

LOCK HAVEN — One of The Express community newspaper’s newest ventures has hit a milestone this month. The Express Compress, a weekly podcast, marked its first birthday on May 1 — with its staff excited to see the unique way to deliver news and entertainment continuing to grow and ...

Movie Review: ‘Lilo & Stitch,’ a sweet but unnecessary live-action remake

The six-legged alien Stitch from “Lilo & Stitch” doesn’t choose to be bad. He’s just genetically programed that way. Kind of like the way Disney is apparently programmed these days to strip mine its old animated stories to make poor live-action remakes. So here comes the sweet but utterly unnecessary “Lilo & Stitch” of 2025, which carefully apes almost every detail of the 2002 original but then goes all Hollywood at the end with over-the-top explosions, the addition of a CIA team and Tom Cruise-level heroics, maybe to try to compete with the latest “Mission: Impossible” ...

District Cinema unveils Summer Movie Mornings lineup

PENNSDALE — The District Cinema at Lycoming Valley, 965 Lycoming Mall Circle, has unveiled its lineup for Summer Movie Mornings, which provides kids and families an opportunity to get out of the house and experience their very first film on the big screen. The program will feature $2 ...

Community Arts Center awarded EITC funds from Truist

WILLIAMSPORT — The Community Arts Center is pleased to announce it is the recipient of a generous $3,000 donation from Truist through the Pennsylvania Education Improvement Tax Credit program (EITC). The funding will support the CAC’s approved educational programs, which include the ...

Jim Morrison bust stolen from Doors singer’s Paris grave in the ‘80s has finally been recovered

PARIS (AP) — Police have found a bust of Jim Morrison that was stolen nearly four decades ago from the Paris grave that has long been a place of pilgrimage for fans of the legendary Doors singer and poet. The bust taken in 1988 from Pere-Lachaise cemetery was found during an unrelated investigation conducted by a financial anti-corruption unit, Paris police said in an Instagram post Monday. There was no immediate word on whether the bust would be returned to the grave or what other investigation might take place. Morrison, the singer of Doors classics including “Light My ...