RENO, Nev. -- Romantic images of cowboys and covered wagons, railroad barons and Gold Rush-era prospectors that typically depict the settling of the American West play only supporting roles at best in a Nevada art exhibit with a broader perspective on Earth's "final frontier." The show ...
Brussels sprouts lovers, you are in for a treat: a side dish that will threaten to steal center stage. Spanish chorizo, a wonderfully spiced smoked pork sausage, gets sauteed just enough to brown a bit and release its oils. Then fresh bread crumbs are sauteed in the same pan and set aside to ...
What happens when the safety of two of the nation’s best-selling toxic chemical pesticides are questioned? The world’s most widely used weed killer, Glyphosate, and one of the most commonly used bug killers, Chloropyrifos, have recently been placed under the regulatory ...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.- Visiting the country's most popular national parks would get more costly under a federal proposal released this week. The National Park Service says its goal is to cut down on the nearly $12 billion in maintenance projects that have been put off under budget ...
NEW YORK — Booking air travel is stressful. How far in advance should you book? Did you get the best fare? That anxiety is magnified this time of year as travelers finalize holiday plans and look ahead to winter getaways and spring break. In an interview with AP Travel’s “Get Outta ...
HONOLULU — Of all the beautiful scenery to see in Honolulu, officials want to make sure residents and tourists get a good look at the street. Honolulu last week became the largest city in the U.S. to make it illegal for people to look at cellphones, tablets or video games while crossing a ...
NEW YORK — Jermaine Fowler is plenty pleased with his new CBS sitcom, “Superior Donuts.” A midseason entry last February, it starts its first full season Monday at 9 p.m., and Fowler is jazzed to be back. On the show, he plays a young go-getter reluctantly hired by a pastry chef who, ...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida — Family fitness dates are replacing the old school pizza and movie nights as more parents are realizing that the benefits of moving aren’t just about burning calories but setting an example for the next generation. We talked to three fitness experts to get a feel ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A batch of letters hand written by “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee has sold for more than $12,000. A statement from the Los Angeles-based Nate D. Sanders Auctions says 38 letters from the deceased novelist to friend Felic Itzkoff went for $12,500 in a ...
Transitional ministers are far more than preachers who conduct Sunday services. As a matter of fact, they probably have more duties than a regular minister. Their role is not only to keep a church stable between pastors, but to help the members evaluate where it is going and what qualities ...
When Martin Luther penned “95 Theses” and posted them to the door at All Saints Church in Wittenberg, Germany, on Oct. 31, 1517, his action changed the course of religious and cultural history. A Catholic monk and scholar at the time, his central teachings were that the Bible is the ...
If you ask me, it doesn’t pay to be a dummy — a ventriloquist’s dummy, that is. For one thing, he’s made of wood, and for another, he spends his entire existence being manipulated by someone else. This occurred to me the other night while watching a movie from a few years ago ...
Prayer service Monsignor Michael Becker of St. John’s Parish, Lakemont, will hold a prayer service at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the Priests’ Circle, at the top of the hill at Calvary Cemetery, Altoona. The main entrance is across from Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic High School. The public is ...
An illustrator of children’s books for years, Deb Bunnell today paints with a story in mind. “There’s a story behind every picture,” she said, standing in the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in downtown Altoona where three dozen of her works are on display. “I hope that people ...
50 YEARS AGO: Oct. 27, 1967 Altoona City Assessor George Cump announced that the 30,000 property descriptions that were inscribed by hand in ledgers at City Hall were being transferred to computer punch cards, a task that was to take several years. 25 YEARS AGO: Oct. 27, 1992 The ...
Just in time for Halloween and for the first time in the United States, the Altoona Symphony Orchestra is treating patrons to the 1922 silent vampire horror film, “Nosferatu,” set to the original music once thought lost. While showing the story of love, death and neck-biting on a screen, ...
As locally the winds of autumn begin to swirl, the mythical voyage of Jason and his crew, the Argonauts, in their search for the golden fleece, gets a fresh creative wind in its sails via Penn State Centre Stage. PSCS seems to delight in setting larger-than-life tales in University Park’s ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A Broadway producer who admitted scamming friends and others into investing hundreds of thousands of dollars into a nonexistent play about opera star Kathleen Battle has been sentenced to six months in jail. Prosecutors say 42-year-old Roland Scahill scammed at least nine ...
Documents go on display NEW YORK — The American public is getting a chance to view newly discovered Jewish documents that had been presumed destroyed during the Holocaust. Ten documents on loan from Lithuania’s national library went on display Tuesday at New York’s YIVO Institute for ...
NEW ORLEANS — Fats Domino, the amiable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose steady, pounding piano and easy baritone helped change popular music while honoring the traditions of the Crescent City, has died. He was 89. Mark Bone, chief investigator with the Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, coroner’s ...