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This weekend’s puzzles: April 4-5, 2026

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GO planner — April 4-5

Saturday, April 4 Hi-Way Drive-In, Carrolltown, is open for the season. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for children ages 5 to 11. For more information, visit hiway219drivein.com. Second Edition will perform from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Saturday, April 4, at the Heidelberg Country Club, 812 ...

At the movies — April 4-5

PITT THEATRE The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (PG) Saturday and Sunday — 7:30 p.m. Project Hail Mary (PG-13) Saturday and Sunday — 7:30 p.m. HI-WAY DRIVE-IN The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (PG) Saturday — 7:45 p.m. GOAT (PG) Saturday — 9:20 p.m. AMC ALTOONA 12 The Super ...

Cornell University instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI writing

The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line. Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without ...

Tyrone Community Players presents ‘The Jungle Book’

The Tyrone Community Players will present “The Jungle Book,” a delightful play with a cast of over 30 local children ranging in age from 6 to 16. Based on Disney’s 1967 animated film by Rudyard Kipling, the show features such Disney characters as Mowgli, Bagheera, Baloo, Kaa, ...

Publisher’s Weekly US Best Sellers — March 28

Hardcover Fiction 1. “The Night We Met (deluxe ed.)” by Abby Jimenez (Forever) 2. “Judge Stone” by Davis/Patterson (Little, Brown) 3. “The Correspondent” by Virginia Evans (Crown) 4. “Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run, Vol. 6” by Hirohiko Araki (Viz) 5. “Beneath” by Ariel Sullivan (Ballantine) 6. “The Traitor Queen (deluxe ed)” by Danielle L. Jensen (Del Rey) 7. “Alchemised” by SenLinYu (Del Rey) 8. “My Husband’s Wife” by Alice Feeney (Pine & Cedar) 9. “Kin” by Tayari Jones (Knopf) 10. “The Butcher’s Masquerade” ...