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SAMA presents Hemingway photo exhibit

A traveling exhibit of pictures taken in 1933 Cuba by photojournalist Walker Evans — which inspired American modernist author Ernest Hemingway’s novel, “To Have Or Have Not” — is coming to the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art from April 17 to June 12. Organized by Art2Art Curating Exhibitions, SAMA’s Altoona location will feature 44 photographs from Hemingway’s personal collection, along with two showings of the 1944 movie, “To Have Or Have Not.” According to the press release, Evans encountered Hemingway in Havana, Cuba, where they captured the ordinary lives ...

Nominations invited for ‘20 Under 40’

Deadline is Monday The Mirror is accepting nominations for its 19th edition of 20 Under 40, which will recognize 20 deserving community members younger than 40 years old in the June edition of Blair Living. Criteria for nomination include business success, entrepreneurial spirit and ...

Series examines science, tech, business of living longer

YORK — Journalist Kara Swisher begins her new, six-part CNN series about longevity and health in an interesting location — a cemetery. It’s the final resting place of her father, who died in 1968 at just 34. Swisher was only 5, and his sudden death had a deep effect on her career and ...

Publisher’s Weekly US Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction 1. “Starside (deluxe ed.)” by Alex Aster (Avon) 2. “The Night We Met (deluxe ed.)” by Abby Jimenez (Forever) 3. “The Correspondent” by Virginia Evans (Crown) 4. “The Keeper” by Tana French (Viking) 5. “Judge Stone” by Davis/Patterson (Little, Brown) 6. “Upward Bound” by Woody Brown (Hogarth) 7. “Cinder Vale” by Peckham/Valenti (King’s Hollow) 8. “Rain of Shadows and Endings (deluxe ed.)” by Melissa K. Roehrich (Kensington) 9. “Between Two Fires” by Christopher Buehlman (Nightfire) 10. “This Kingdom Will Not ...

John Green writing first novel intended for adults

John Green’s first novel in nearly a decade is also a kind of debut — a work of fiction for adults. The author of such favorites for young people as “The Fault in Our Stars” and “Looking for Alaska” has written a story about celebrity and the attention economy, “Hollywood, ...