Wow and double wow to director Julie Costantini, producer Steven Gustafson, and choreographers Jennie Cross and Jordan Spencer for an outstanding production of “Newsies,” presented at Jamestown Community College’s Scharmann Theatre. The play, written by Harvey Fierstein, with composer ...
The Jamestown Concert Association presents the second concert in its 2018-19 concert series of Dedicated to Great Music on Friday when soprano Deborah Selig, baritone David McFerrin, and pianist Jerry Noble perform in Jamestown at 8 p.m. at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 410 N. Main St. In ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is the final in a series by members of the Jamestown High School Red Raider Marching Band. So much work is done behind the scenes — planning, preparing, and practicing — that most people only see the finished project — the performance. JHS competes in New ...
They have stopped delivering newspapers — and for good reason. The newsies or newsboys don’t want to be taken advantage of, so they are throwin’ down their papers, so the newspapers they work for are kept honest. Set in New York City in 1899, Newsies focuses on Jack Kelly, a ...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Auschwitz museum has obtained a new relic from the death camp that Nazi Germany operated during World War II: the baton of the inmate orchestra’s conductor. The 32-centimeter (13-inch) wood-and-ivory baton with a plaque reading “F. Nierychlo 1940 (A)” was obtained from a private individual, Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum spokesman Bartosz Bartyzel said Wednesday. Franciszek Nierychlo, a postal clerk and a musician, was brought to Auschwitz in June 1940 in a transport of Polish prisoners. The Nazis made him the supervising “kapo” in the camp kitchen. ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Hoagland, a prize-winning poet admired for his candor and sharp, off-beat humor, has died at age 64. Jeff Shotts, executive editor of Graywolf Press, told The Associated Press that Hoagland died Tuesday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The cause was pancreatic cancer. A native of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Hoagland published several works of poetry and essays about poetry. The titles helped sum up his take on life: “Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty,” ‘’Application for Release from the Dream” and “Priest Turned Therapist Treats ...
