Shirley McMarlin stories, Page 62
Neon Swing X-perience invites fans to interactive online session
Fans of Neon Swing X-Perience can connect with the band during an interactive online session from 7-8 p.m. Tuesday. The Pittsburgh-based jazz-funk-blues band will host a session that will include members talking about their experiences with the band, a question-and-answer session and clips from albums and past live shows. A...
Stage Right offers free online dance, performance classes
Stage Right School for the Performing Arts in Greensburg is offering opportunities to “stay active, stay artistic and stay sharp” during coronavirus-related shutdowns with free online classes. The classes are available on the Zoom app, and are open to anyone. Schedule for the upcoming week includes: • Preteen jazz dance,...
Summer theaters making adjustments for coronavirus restrictions
“The show must go on” — the phrase is said to have originated with 19th-century circuses, where audiences were to be kept calm and entertained at any cost, even if a performer was injured or a wild animal escaped. The saying was adopted by theater groups, who likewise would improvise...
Travel tip: Indiana County waterfall makes for scenic day trip
With a hiking trail, picnic pavilion and a 45-foot waterfall, Buttermilk Falls Natural Area near Clyde, Indiana County, makes for a quick and scenic outing. Steps leading to the base of the falls include several viewing platforms, and there is access to walk behind the falls at the bottom. The...
Garth Brooks plans acoustic concert on Facebook LiveVideo
Country superstar Garth Brooks will do his part to keep fans entertained during coronavirus shutdowns with a live Facebook concert. The singer said on his “Inside Studio G” Facebook Live show that he’ll livestream an acoustic set at 6 p.m. March 23 CST, 7 p.m. here in southwestern Pa. Brooks...
Bored kids? Online resources to keep them happy (and learning)
“There’s nothing to do.” What parent hasn’t heard that sad lament from a bored child? Unfortunately, it’s more true now than it actually ever was in the past, as we socially isolate and shelter in place to avoid contracting or spreading covid-19. Luckily, we still have the world at our...
There’s no toilet paper or hand sanitizer, but here’s what we’re not buying
Call it stocking up or panic-buying, the first wave of coronavirus-driven shopping seems to have subsided. While toilet paper is still on the endangered species list, a survey of Greensburg-area supermarkets, big box stores and pharmacies reveals limited supplies of paper towels, napkins and facial tissue. The demand for canned...
Saint Vincent Summer Theatre cancels season
Saint Vincent College has canceled the 2020 season of Saint Vincent Summer Theatre, citing travel and other gathering restrictions associated with covid-19. Plans were for the season to open May 21 with “The Marvelous Wonderettes.” “This is certainly a difficult and unfortunate decision as Saint Vincent Summer Theatre has been...
Pittsburgh Symphony reschedules ‘Bugs Bunny,’ cancels other dates
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has announced new dates for its previously postponed PNC Pops “Bugs Bunny at the Symphony” concerts, and has issued a new list of cancellations. The “Bugs Bunny” series has been moved to June 30-July 2 in Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall. Information for current ticket-holders includes: March 20 tickets...
Latrobe Art Center seeks homemade art-making video tutorialsVideo
Latrobe Art Center wants to keep teaching and sharing art during its coronavirus-related closure. The center is asking anyone who would like to participate to share an art-making video tutorial via its social media accounts with the hashtag #HomeStudioLAC. The center is hoping to be able to share “a series...
Opus One extends postponement, cancellation of Pittsburgh events
Area arts and entertainment venues and organizations are working to reschedule events that have been postponed due to coronavirus-related restrictions, along with continuing to announce cancellations. Following is a list of cancellations and new event dates: 3 Rivers Comicon 3 Rivers Comicon 2020, originally scheduled for May 30-31 in the...
WQED offers PBS KIDS resources on social media during closures
WQED Education says that, although its in-person programs and events at schools and libraries are curtailed until further notice due to coronavirus-related closures, it will continue to support teachers, parents and students through its social media platforms. “During this uncertain time, WQED is still the ‘school of the air,’ which...
Bored kids can take a virtual field trip via zoo websites
Spring is the time for school field trips and outdoor activities — but maybe not this year. How to replace those favorite activities for the kids while they’re on their extra-long “spring break”? One idea comes from zoos around the country. Kids can take a virtual animal safari via various...
Out & About: Greensburg Garden Center tea a floral-scented successVideo
Greensburg Garden Center’s annual Spring Tea was like a breath of fresh air in a weekend of otherwise foreboding news — bringing with it the scent of tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, forsythia, pussy willows and roses. Tables at the “March Into Spring” event, held March 14 at Maplewood Presbyterian Church in...
Out & About: NAACP prayer breakfast focuses on spiritual weapons
As event cancellations mounted, driven by coronavirus concerns, leaders of the Greensburg-Jeannette NAACP forged ahead with the organization’s Annual NAACP Prayer Breakfast. The event, held March 14 in the Ramada by Wyndham Greensburg Hotel and Conference Center, carried this heartening theme: “Prayer: Your Weapon of Warfare.” Conveying the message was...
Travel tip: AAA survey reveals concerns about self-driving cars
A January AAA survey on automated vehicles says only about 12% of drivers would trust riding in a self-driving car. Driver concerns include knowing who will be legally responsible in the event of a crash, having laws to make sure self-driving cars are safe and knowing how vulnerable the vehicles...
Receptions planned for 2 exhibitions at Seton Hill art center
Editor’s note: This event has been canceled/postponed due to coronavirus concerns. Receptions for two art exhibitions are scheduled for March 19 in the Seton Hill University Art Center in downtown Greensburg. The exhibitions include: • “Speaking Within Space,” running through April 10 in the Harlan Gallery. Presented by the Society...
Sweet sounds of doo-wop coming to The Palace Theatre stage
There was something magical about those vocal harmony groups of the 1950s and ’60s. Before the days of Auto-Tune and other recording studio wizardry, what they sang into the microphone was what came out on the record — and what they re-created in concert. Maybe that sheer artistry and talent...
Entertainment planner: March 12-25
Friday March 13 50 Times Around the Sun: A Celebration of Local Music, The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls, Millvale. 412-772-1202 or Facebook An Evening of Queer Youth Voices: Performance Pieces With Dreams of Hope, staged readings of short plays, The Peirce Studio Theater, Downtown Pittsburgh. dreamsofhope.org Art on Tap: Shamrocks...
Harvard Glee Club cancels Saint Vincent College concert due to coronavirus
The Harvard Glee Club’s free March 16 performance at Saint Vincent College has been canceled, due to travel restrictions for Harvard University students and faculty. The Saint Vincent communications and public relations office shared this announcement from the club: “Regretfully, the Harvard Glee Club announces that it will not be...
Saint Vincent Summer Theater announces upcoming productions
Three audience-favorite musicals are on tap for the 52nd season of the Saint Vincent Summer Theatre. The schedule includes Roger Bean’s off-Broadway musical comedy, “The Marvelous Wonderettes,” May 21-31; Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Tony Award-winning classic, “The Sound of Music,” June 25-July 5; and “Million Dollar Quartet,” featuring the music of...
Blink-182 to head Four Chord Music Festival at Wild Things ParkVideo
Blink-182 will headline the Four Chord Music Festival on July 11 at Wild Things Park in Washington, Pa. Also on the bill are The Used, State Champs, Four Year Strong, The Ataris, Hit the Lights, Eternal Boy, Sleep on It, Patent Pending, Keep Flying, Fortune Cove and Look Out Loretta....
Tickets for Brad Paisley show with Munhall’s Gabby Barrett on sale this weekVideo
Tickets for Brad Paisley’s Aug. 8 show at S&T Bank Music Park go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. March 13 via livenation.com. The concert is part of the Country Megaticket series of nine summer country music concerts at the Burgettstown venue. Joining Paisley on the bill...
Out & About: Leadership Karaoke brings out hidden musical talentVideo
Participants in Westmoreland Diversity Coalition’s Leadership Karaoke say that the organizations’ co-chair Carlotta Paige has a particular talent for getting people to sing at the event. It’s called arm-twisting. Everyone who performed at the second annual event, held March 7 at Ferrante’s Lakeview in Hempfield, was happy to have their...
Out & About: Guests relive prom night at Blind Association event
Prom is an occasion for high schoolers to make memories that last a lifetime. On March 6, the Westmoreland County Blind Association provided an opportunity for reliving those memories and making some new ones with its A Night to Remember … Adult Prom. Held at Rizzo’s Banquet Hall in Crabtree,...
