Harry Zimbler

The county’s most prolific professional choreographer will present new work at The State Theatre on Saturday, June 22. Ann Van Kuren, artistic director of VanDance, will premiere two new […]

Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center will host the Art Alliance of Central PA’s 50th anniversary celebration on the evening of Sunday, Sept. 23.

Until November of last year, individuals adopted as children in Pennsylvania had little to no access to verifiable information about their birth mothers or families.

When State College native Sarah Shafer steps onto the stage at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, Centre Countians will have the opportunity to experience a local performer’s interpretation of a Babylonian princess from a 19th century opera.

On Friday and Saturday, Ann Van Kuren, director of VanDance Inc., will present JazzBird, her most recent creative offering, at the State Theatre. The presentation will also feature Steel Valley Rhythms, the work of independent professional choreographer Michele Dunleavy.

In early June, a weak, starved and ailing swan landed in the grass near a business on East College Avenue. Far from its usual summer home in northern Canada, this lone bird, a tundra swan, had fallen behind its flock of travel companions.