Arts & Entertainment

BOALSBURG — This Columbus Day weekend, the fourth annual Olde Europe Renaissance Festival will celebrate Boalsburg’s local connection to the Europe of Christopher Columbus’s time, as history comes alive on the grounds of the Columbus Chapel and Boal Mansion Museum. The Oct. 13 event will take place from 10 a.m. through 5 p.m. and…

PHILIPSBURG — The Centre Film Festival is just a month away from making its debut at Philipsburg’s grand Rowland Theatre, and the Moshannon Valley YMCA and several local businesses have jumped on board to get more community members — especially kids — involved in the arts. “We…

STATE COLLEGE — The 200 block of South Allen Street will be bustling with people and activities as the 20th Annual Downtown Fall Festival takes place on Saturday, Oct. 12, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. In 1999, the event took root when youngsters were invited to the downtown to Growing Tree Toys…

BELLEFONTE — A local group of Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, PA Tent 62, recently spent a warm Saturday afternoon gently cleaning the gravestone of Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin, his wife and two children, in Bellefonte’s Union Cemetery. First Lady Katherine Wilson Curtin is…

JULIAN — There is a simplistic beauty to wildflowers which makes them delightful to behold. There are many varieties of wildflowers in bloom right now at the Tom Ridge Wetlands, and these might make great subject matter for the Autumn in the Wetlands photography contest, brought to…

SNOW SHOE — The calendar says autumn is beginning, but with the temperature near 80 degrees under brilliant sunshine, it felt more like mid-summer in Snow Shoe as the town’s Fall Festival and Car Show was held on Sept. 21 in Snow Shoe Park. This annual event…

STATE COLLEGE — Libraries and teenagers may seem like an odd match to some, but the fact is libraries, including Schlow Centre Region Library, in State College, have much to offer those who are in the transformative years of adolescence. In October, libraries across the country will be celebrating teens with TeenTober, a new month-long…

UNIVERSITY PARK — Country star Luke Combs is about to hit the Bryce Jordan Center like a hurricane when he comes to Penn State for a Feb. 13 show, the venue announced through a press release. Tickets, starting at $25, go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. on Sept. 27.…

JULIAN — If you love nature photography, then the Autumn in the Wetlands Photography Contest is for you. Wildlife for Everyone is sponsoring the photography contest, and hopes anyone who loves getting behind a camera will participate. There is a category for youths and another for adults. Prizes will be awarded to the contest…

PHILIPSBURG — Busloads of students descended on Philipsburg on Sept. 6 for The Centre Film Workshop’s first High School Master Class. Approximately 65 students from Moshannon Valley, Philipsburg-Osceola, Keystone Central and Bellefonte High Schools gathered to learn how to shoot a short film with their cellphones. Pearl Gluck, Penn State…