After a four-month closure for maintenance this spring and summer, the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University opened with a bang last month with three new exhibitions, including one devoted to big works. “Big Deal: Sizeable Paintings” features art that has at least a single ...
In its eighth year, the Central PA Pet Expo promises to be better than ever. While there will be plenty of animal-related entertainment, the main goal of the exhibition is to educate people on how to be the best pet owners they can be, says show director Amy Hanna-Eckenrode. To provide this ...
Celiacs and others with gluten sensitivities and allergies can get an abundance of information at the fifth annual Central PA Gluten Free Expo in State College next month. The event is open to the public from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 5 at the Penn Stater Conference Center, 215 Innovation ...
One of my favorite ways to spend a Saturday is visiting food stores in the Strip District of Pittsburgh. It is such a special place to explore, full of ethnic and specialty food stores. My first visit was with my sister in college; we didn’t need lunch because we spent all day tasting free ...
Though the hazards of pesticide use were recognized more than a century ago, efforts to weaken current regulations are again in the headlines. While Dow, DuPont and Monsanto met such news with smiles, many researchers, doctors and environmental advocates saw these potential actions as a notable ...
Editor’s note: This is the next in a regular series on travel by Mirror Life writer Cherie Hicks. Marlene and Dan Matthews made the 80-mile drive from their Level Green home near Murrysville to Fishertown twice in three days earlier this month. Picking out a peck of apples at the Ridgetop ...
People do some strange things to get attention. I should know. A few weeks ago after church, my husband Bob, daughter, Val, and I decided to get takeout pizza for lunch. Checking the fuel gauge on our van, Bob took a small detour. “Dad, the pizza place is the other direction,” Val said. ...
The Altoona Chapter of Aglow International will meet Tuesday at the Hoss’s Steak and Sea House on Seventh Street and Pleasant Valley Boulevard. Lunch is at noon, followed by the meeting at 12:45 p.m. This month’s meeting is a prayer, praise and worship gathering. Men and women are ...
The National Spiritual Assembly of Baha’is of the United States and the local Baha’i community will mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Baha’u’llah, the founder of the Baha’i faith, with a “Two Centuries of Light” celebration at 6 p.m. on Oct. 21 at 3948 Fifth Ave., ...
Judy Garland was 16 years old when she landed the role of Dorothy in the 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz.” At only 14, Ellie Irwin will play the 12-year-old Kansas farmgirl when P&J Productions and Altitude Entertainment bring the musical to the Mishler Theatre stage Oct 19 to 22. Fewer ...
The “stinking rose” is back. Our street is redolent with its fragrance. This is the time of year when gardeners revisit their stash of stinking roses, also known as their garlic. Creatures who fear garlic are said to have Alliumphobia. Bram Stoker and Hollywood movie makers call them ...
The Altoona Symphony Orchestra began its 89th season on Saturday night at the Mishler Theatre in downtown Altoona. Concertgoers heard titanic works from the Classic and Romantic periods as a rousing beginning to Teresa Cheung’s 10th year as conductor and music director of the ...
Barbara Kooman would watch in amazement as her young son would listen to a song on the radio for the first time and then play it on his small keyboard in their Altoona home. “It flipped me out,” said the mother, who proceeded to put the boy in piano lessons. But when Michael Kooman ...
Carole Wolaver learned the art of pottery when she was in her 20s and through the years was content to make pottery vases and vessels in her home workshop. And although she had been accepted at a prestigious acting school in Hollywood during her teen years, she no longer yearned to be in the ...
Two Rosary rallies will be held in Blair County next weekend. Both are being held in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of The Miracle of the Sun, which occurred in Fatima, Portugal. The 11th annual Altoona Public Square Rally will be held at noon Oct. 14 at Heritage Plaza, 11th Avenue ...
Have you ever felt alone in a crowd? It happened to me the other day when I attended a baby shower for the daughter of an acquaintance. It was one of those situations in which propriety dictated I appear, but in actuality nobody cared one way or another if I showed up. I got a bad feeling ...
Three men with ties to the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese are among the new students at St. Vincent Seminary this year. Justin P. Treon of Cresson is entering the pre-theology program and is with the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown. He is a 2013 graduate of Bishop Carroll Catholic High School, ...
Barbara Hollander, the local art museum coordinator, is colorful. It’s evident in the clothes she usually wears and the art she often chooses for display. Even her hair is a shade of red. “I do love color, and I like them all,” Hollander said. “I like black, too. The last line of my ...
The Wehnwood United Methodist Church Community String Ensemble will present the fall concert “A Potpourri of Musical Styles” at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the church, 2511 Juniata Gap Road. The concert is open to the public. Food items to support the local food bank will also be collected ...
50 YEARS AGO — Oct. 6, 1967 George E. Burket, president of Mid-State Advertising Corp., was named chairman of the 100th anniversary committee of the City of Altoona celebration to be held during the month of February, the month in 1868 when Altoona went from a borough to a city. 25 ...