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Comedy Center Preserves ‘Dick Van Dyke Show’ Scripts

The National Comedy Center and legendary producer, director and writer Carl Reiner announced that on Carl Reiner’s 97th birthday, an initiative to digitally preserve Reiner’s extensive personal collection of production-used scripts from “The Dick Van Dyke Show” — one of the most ...

Five Eliminated From Talent Show

Chautauqua’s Got Talent completed week three of the five week competition. The 10th season of Chautauqua’s Got Talent, at The Spire Theater, began Monday evening, March 4 at 7 p.m. with a showing of 31 contestants, ranging in age from 9 to 78 with a diverse group of singers, instrumentalists, dancers and comedy. Six contestants were eliminated in the first round. The performances for week two showcased 25 contestants who were allotted 90 second performances to earn the audience vote to advance to round three of the competition, and five were eliminated. The following contestants, ...

‘She Kills Monsters’

Monsters. Demons. Sword fights. It’s 1995 and the game is Dungeons and Dragons. Tilly has died, leaving her D & D playbook, and her sister Agnes must play the game to get to really know her sister. Enter a fantasy world as the Jamestown Community College’s Uncommoners present ...

Write Now: Power Trios Give Music A Different Definition

Maybe it’s the silence between the notes. Maybe it’s not. Maybe it’s the sonic space of the instruments. Maybe it’s not. For whatever the reason is, power trios have always caught my ear, and that’s why when they play, it’s sheer energy. Some of the best rock bands were and are trios. I like quartets. My favorite band is The Beatles, and quintets are fine, too. Even bands with horn sections fill the air with music, but it’s the trinity that delivers the power. With only bass, drums and guitar, these bands expose themselves. One member also has to double as a ...

‘Captain Marvel’ Success Is Defeat For Trolls

NEW YORK (AP) — Captain Marvel possesses superhuman strength, cosmic awareness and, it turns out, the ability to vanquish trolls. Marvel’s “Captain Marvel,” the superhero factory’s first movie fronted solely by a female hero, last weekend notched the sixth largest global opening ever and in five days of release has already sold $524.1 million tickets worldwide, Disney said Wednesday. That was despite the efforts of a vocal minority to sabotage the movie’s release in a campaign to lower audience scores and disseminate false information about the film’s star, Brie ...

Southern Gothic

There’s always a danger in presenting a well-known work like “To Kill a Mockingbird” but the cast and crew of the Lucille Ball Little Theatre production have accepted the challenge willingly. Director Richard Olson-Walter commented about both this play, and about his directing ...