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 ...
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 ...
What a difference a couple months can make. In January, Pokemon Go’s content was dull to say the least. However, beginning with the Road to Kalos event, which led to the global Kalos Tour event Feb. 28 and March 1, my luck with this game has been over the top in more ways than one. It ...
Tens of thousands of people gathered at Rose Bowl Stadium and nearby Brookside Golf Course last weekend in Pasadena, Calif., with their phones in their hands and eyes on their screens for a fun event full of surprises. Among them were five trainers from Altoona who flew out of the Pittsburgh ...
The first-ever remote trades are finally happening in Pokemon Go after some trainers were able to achieve forever friends together. Although there was initially a problem reported with the feature, the issue has been resolved, and people can now trade Pokemon with others they may never meet ...
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 ...
Changing of Seasons It’s beginning to feel like autumn—maybe a little too quickly for my liking. This summer passed in a blur, with too many sweltering days that kept me indoors, wishing for cooler air. Something about the weather feels different, unsettled, and worrisome. And as often ...
As summer winds down and we head into Labor Day weekend, it’s a good moment to pause and remember the people who fought for the rights many of us now take for granted—safer workplaces, fair hours, and the dignity of a living wage. A visiting minister at church this morning reminded us how ...
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 ...
After British pop star Harry Styles concluded his 2023 world tour with a heartfelt piano ballad in Reggio Emilia, Italy, he disappeared from the public eye. Except last May, when he attended Pope Leo XIV’s election in Rome. Or training for various marathons across Europe. Nevertheless, ...
A bitterly cold breeze swirled around outside an Upper West Side restaurant while my boyfriend and I sat inside eating dinner. He was smiling more than usual, and I knew why. Like any other type A person, I had my dream engagement planned out for years — a weekend getaway to the Big Apple ...
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 ...