Here is a listing of area live music and online music happenings for the weekend and week of Friday, January 3 through Thursday, January 9. While New Year's Eve is still considered one of the busiest nights of the year for live music, the weekend following the New Year's holiday often turns ...
Here is a listing of area live music and online music happenings for the weekend and week of Friday, December 6 through Thursday, December 12. SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC! (Listings in chronological order by event start time.) FRIDAY 12/6: "Tyrone Yuletyme Celebration with Altoona Brass Collective ...
Here is a listing of area live music and online music happenings for the weekend and week of Friday, November 22 through Thursday, November 28. The weekend before - and the night before - the Thanksgiving holiday always provide a wide variety of Thanksgiving-themed live music parties and ...
Here is a listing of area live music and online music happenings for the weekend and week of Friday, November 15 through Thursday, November 21. Tribute shows provide some highlights this weekend. McGarvey's in Altoona is hosting the "Amp Up to Eleven: A Tribute to 90s Grunge Icons" event on ...
Visiting Chicago for the first time last weekend for the in-person Pokemon Go Fest event was a surreal experience I will never forget. The event was such a success that it broke the all-time ticket sales record for any Pokemon Go live event in North America, with 103,605 total tickets sold for ...
The next season of Pokemon Go, Forever Forward, begins Tuesday and runs through early September, which means we have an idea of what content will be available for trainers leading up to the game’s 10-year anniversary in July. For starters, Go Fest is arguably the biggest event of the year, ...
The Firefighter’s Memorial Trail in East Carroll Township is not only a great resource for the community, but for Pokemon Go trainers as well. Last weekend, I used my daily adventure incense at the Cambria County Fire School training site and encountered a Galarian Zapdos while walking on ...
Rediscovering the Kanto region in Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen has been so much fun — and financially successful — that it only makes sense for Nintendo and the Pokemon Co. to release other Game Boy Advanced classics, such as Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald. But time will ultimately ...
There’s an exciting opportunity for local artists and art lovers coming to Altoona with the upcoming Plein Air Painting Event & Wet Sale hosted by ArtsAltoona! From Friday, May 22 through Sunday, May 24, artists will paint on location throughout the community at selected outdoor ...
I’ve been working different jobs and gaining a lot of experience. I’ve finished several pathways and must say the journey has been incredibly rewarding, allowing me to meet different people and experience so many new things. I think the biggest adventure has been learning about autism ...
What says winter more clearly than the delicate imprints left behind in fresh snow? As I arrived home one cold evening, the air sharp and quiet, I glanced down and noticed the ground softly stitched with tiny tracks. Little bird feet had danced across the snow, crisscrossing and looping in ...
One of the simple pleasures of fall is watching the leaves shift into their brilliant colors as the air cools and the days grow shorter. I’ve always had a soft spot for the ginkgo tree. The ginkgo’s fan-shaped leaves seem to lift toward the sky before turning a luminous golden yellow. This ...
I wasn’t alive the last time the New York Knicks made it to the NBA FInals in 1999. But I’m more than excited to watch it this year. While I enjoy the arts and humanities immensely, I’ve also been a basketball fan for about four years now, after watching my first NBA game with my ...
If my former William Shakespeare professor at Saint Francis University taught me anything, it’s that the 16th-century British playwright remains alive in many pieces of modern media, such as songs, films and theatre, of course. And Dr. John Woznak was right, especially in 2026. Taylor ...
More often than not, I see both small-town colleges and large-scale universities cutting their humanities programs. Syracuse University dropped 84 majors in April, where the humanities and fine arts departments suffered the largest blow. The University of Chicago also recently paused graduate ...
While working at the Walmart Supercenter in Ebensburg four years ago, I remember that my team lead was more excited to watch the latest episode of HBO’s “Euphoria” than I was. And I was shocked that she watched it. Ignorantly, I thought “Euphoria” was only a show for Generation Z ...
May 9 is a very important date to me. And for many reasons, too. It’s the day after my sons, Dom and Vinny, turn 23! It will be one week to the date after my beloved cousin, Rich DeLeo, celebrates his birthday on May 2. It’s also one week to the date that I will celebrate No. 61 on May 16. ...
Stop me if you heard this one before. You know what … don’t because I’m in a bad mood and this is going to be me venting. A pastor at my church in Duncansville once said to me that God doesn’t give you more than you can handle. Well you know what … God must think the world of ...
Starting now, my columns will be renamed “The Getting Old Chronicles,” with this being Chapter 1 titled “One of my kids is getting married!” That’s right, the first of four dominos fell recently when my 22-year-old son, Vincent, asked his girlfriend of seven years, Brooke Maines, to ...
In case you haven’t been paying attention, or didn’t pick up your GO+TV magazine in this weekend’s edition of the Mirror to check out the local listings, Nintendo had a new movie come out this week, “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” a sequel to the “Super Mario Bros. Movie” that ...
Fans of the “Dragon Ball” series have been left in a bit of a lull since the end of the most recent series, “Daima,” which aired in 2025. While Son Goku and his friends’ trip to the demon realm was an enjoyable side story experience, set between the end of “Dragon Ball Z” and the ...
The Mirror and the local sports community mourned one of its pillars in the wake of former sports editor Jim Lane’s passing Monday at age 85 (see obituary here). Jim was long retired by the time I joined the sports desk as a part-timer nearly 10 years ago, but he was still a regular in the ...
The last time is now. Dec. 13 marks the end of the line in the career of one of the best professional wrestling has ever had to offer. John Cena will enter a WWE ring one final time Saturday night to take on Gunther, winner of “The Last Time is Now” Tournament, at Capital One Arena in ...