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The United States is getting ready for its 240th birthday — and few places know how to celebrate it better than Happy Valley with Central PA 4th Fest.

One of the nation’s best Independence Day celebrations is back again this year, right here in State College and on the Penn State campus. This year’s Central PA 4thFest will for the first time expand to two days of entertainment, activities, food and, of course, the massive fireworks show that w

Matthew Lindenberg, a systems analyst in Penn State’s College of Engineering, has been volunteering at Central PA 4thFest for 13 years and is responsible for every aspect of the choreography and pyrotechnics for the 45-minute show.

Theresa Caputo, a psychic medium famous for her TLC reality show “Long Island Medium,” is coming to State College this fall to perform live at the Bryce Jordan Center.

The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State 2016-17 season begins with a set of café doors swinging open on an exhilarating evening in the mythical Wild West. Cirque Éloize (Cirkopolis, iD, Rain) rustles up a mix of theater, music, acrobatics, and emotion in its new production, Saloon.