Pajama Factory hosts 3rd Annual ‘Unbuttoned’ event on May 17

May 15, 2025

WILLIAMSPORT — This Saturday, May 17, the Pajama Factory will open its doors for the 3rd Annual “Unbuttoned” event, featuring music, art, food and some open studios. The highlight of the day will be WXPI’s “Antennafest,” an all-day music benefit aimed at expanding WXPI’s commercial-free public access radio broadcast to Williamsport. Visitors are invited to explore over half a mile of artwork from numerous artists and visit open studios. BuzzSaw Coffee will be serving coffee until 5 p.m., and the White Knight Gamer’s Galley will offer food until 8 p.m. The Finish Line ...

Commonwealth U website wins pair of international golds at 2025 Hermes Creative Awards

May 15, 2025

LOCK HAVEN — The Commonwealth University Strategic Communications and Marketing team has earned international acclaim, taking home a pair of gold awards for the commonwealthu.edu website at the 2025 Hermes Creative Awards — one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious creative competitions. Administered by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP), the Hermes Creative Awards honor outstanding work in traditional and emerging media. Each year, competition judges evaluate the international creative industry’s best work. The Commonwealth U website won ...

Rare Ian Fleming story features a Londoner named Bone, Caffery Bone

May 15, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — “James Bond” creator Ian Fleming didn’t need to write about Cold War intrigue to consider the ways people scheme against each other. “The Shameful Dream,” a rare Fleming work published this week, is a short story about a Londoner named Bone, Caffery Bone. Fleming’s protagonist is the literary editor of Our World, a periodical “designed to bring power and social advancement to Lord Ower,” its owner. Bone has been summoned to spend Saturday evening with Lord and Lady Ower, transported to them in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. Bone suspects, with a ...

On 100th anniversary of ‘The Gold Rush,’ Cannes tips hat to Charlie Chaplin

May 15, 2025

CANNES, France (AP) — One hundred years after Charlie Chaplin made dinner rolls dance and ate his shoe like it was a fine meal, “The Gold Rush” has been vividly brought back to life in a new restoration that premiered Tuesday at the Cannes Film Festival. On the opening day of its 78th ...

A landscape transformed: As it responds to cuts in federal programs, the arts community reels

May 15, 2025

NEW YORK — Poet Marie Howe, one of this year's winners of the Pulitzer Prize, says being a writer is often less a career than a vocation. You rely on teaching and other outside work and seek support from foundations or from a government agency, like the National Endowment for the ...

‘Andor’ is ending. It brought untold stories of trauma and humanity to ‘Star Wars’

May 15, 2025

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The complex effects of personal trauma have not traditionally been the stuff of sci-fi and fantasy. They tend to get in the way of the quest. “Game of Thrones” made a meal of it. “Battlestar Galactica” tried to consider the effect on survivors of losing a planet of people. But it hasn’t fit in the swashbuckling world of “Star Wars.” How could the mission to destroy the Death Star have quickly concluded if Princess Leia needed to mourn the loss of nearly all her loved ones on Alderaan? “Andor” changed all that. Coping with inner pain has been a ...