NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey was in town to praise one of her idols, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. “It’s impossible to actually imagine the American literary landscape without a Toni Morrison,” Winfrey said Tuesday night during a dinner gala in downtown Manhattan hosted by the Center ...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Lakewood native Hannah Finson will return to the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford for an encore performance Saturday. Last year, Finson wowed the audience at Marilyn Horne Hall with an hour-long performance on her 108 year-old Lyon and Healy concert harp. In order to ...

Wits ‘n Giggles Stand-Up Comedy will be held at the Northwest Arena Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The third show of the season features headliner Kirk Bogos and features Homer Shadowheart and host Casey Love. Shadowheart is an American Indian comedian from Cincinnati. Shadowheart once famously ...

The Sugar Plum Fairy will again visit the Chautauqua Regional Youth Ballet. The Reg Lenna Civic Center will host the annual performance of “The Nutcracker” by veteran New York City Ballet Dancers, Lauren King and Joseph Gordon. They will play the roles of the Sugar Plum Fairy and ...

CLYMER—Clymer author, Kathy Otten has been writing for years. From a young age, Otten was writing stories and creating characters. She was also a reader. “I used to make up stories in bed when I was trying to fall asleep,” Otten said. Her taste for writing began as a young girl. ...

Jazz means different things to different people, but to Ralph Rasmussen, it means elation. Rasmusson, better known as “Razz,” was trying to come up with a name and he and a few other members were throwing around words, and as an homage to Jamestown, Pear City Jazz was born. While ...