Gannon Joins Recyclemania

The Gannon Goes Green committee wants everyone on campus to get manic about recycling. Recyclemania – the countrywide recycling initiative held at college campuses – has begun, and will continue through the end of March.

Recyclemania is a national competition between all participating colleges based on quantity recycled. The competition includes several levels...Read More

Orchestras Feeding America

The Erie Philharmonic has partnered with several local organizations, including the Second Harvest Food Bank, to coordinate a food drive the first week of March in coordination with Orchestras Feeding America. With the donation of a non-perishable food item(s), you will receive a buy one/get one free ticket offer for the March 5 concert...Read More

Call For Entries For The 88th Annual Spring Show

Works are currently being accepted for the Erie Art Museum’s 88th Annual Spring Show, a regional juried exhibit, running April 16 through June 26, 2011 in the new Main Gallery.

All artists residing within 250 miles of Erie are invited to enter works not previously exhibited in the Erie area. Each entrant may submit three works. The entry fee is $5 per entry for members of the Erie Art Museum and $10 for non-members...Read More

Program Cuts Cavities in Low-Income Toddlers

Preventive dental care from pediatricians and family doctors may help reduce the widespread problem of early childhood cavities in low-income kids, a new study finds.

In the U.S., it's estimated that up to 11 percent of 2-year-olds and 44 percent of 5-year-olds have cavities. And the majority of those children are from low-income families...Read More

Steeler’s Hines Ward To Dance With The Stars

The Pittsburgh Steelers’ own Hines Ward will dance on TV in season 12 of Dancing With The Stars, which starts up March 21.

Ward will compete in the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars, according to reports. Boxing great Sugar Ray Leonard, Chelsea Kane, Master P's kid Romeo, wise karate master Ralph Macchio, Petra Nemcova, Kirstie Alley, Kendra Wilkinson, former Intercontinental Champion Chris Jericho, Mike Catherwood, and Wendy Williams are the other cast members who've been revealed, and I actually know who at least five of those people are!...Read More

From Beatles to ballet, McCartney Writes for Dance

From the Beatles to ballet -- Paul McCartney is putting the finishing touches to his first original orchestral score for dance.

The former Fab Four member announced on Thursday that he was collaborating with New York City Ballet's ballet master in chief Peter Martins on a new work to be premiered by the company on September 22....Read More

Weekend Notes

This weekends local music guide. Where are the hippest places to be this weekend? Who is playing where? Where is the music...We have your answers and maybe a few more surprises...Know where to check out the original local music...new faces...And of course those great out of town bands you don't want to miss...Read More

Gadgets Galore at World's Top Tech Fair

A Shakespeare-reciting robot, the world's most merciless alarm clock and "intelligent" cocktail shakers were among the gadgets wowing visitors at the CeBIT high-tech fair on Wednesday.

Ranging from the futuristic to the ingenious to the downright pointless, the world's biggest IT expo this year showcased thousands of the latest gadgets to pull in the 350,000 visitors expected to travel to Hanover in northern Germany...Read More

Family Ties Mom Meredith Baxter Tells of Being Gay on Oprah

Family Ties mom, Meredith Baxter, came out on the "Oprah Show" and again one’s sexuality is blared all over the internet. Meredith 63, revealed her life while holding hands with partner Nancy Locke, 54. She was also joined by her TV husband Michael Gross, and her children.

She first discovered she was a lesbian in 2002, and has lived with her general girlfriend since 2005. Of course this has all come out in a tell all book entitled "Untied." David Birney, her husband, of 15 years has been accused of being physically and emotionally abusive, which Birney, 71, steadfastly denied...Read More

Rusted Root Founder To Perform At Jamestown’s Reg

Jim Donovan, a founding member of the popular multi-platinum band Rusted Root presents a brand new exhilarating musical feast for the ears and the body at the Reg Lenna Civic Center, 116 East 3rd Street in Jamestown, New York, this weekend.

Rusted Root is a band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania known for their fusion of Grateful Dead style bluegrass rock with a strong percussion section that draws from African, Latin American, Native American, and Indian influences...Read more

Army's New Fitness Tests Add Taste of Battlefield

Sit-ups don't make a soldier, the Army has decided. So its 30-year-old fitness requirements are getting a battlefield-inspired makeover.

Soon every soldier will have to run on a balance beam with two 30-pound canisters of ammunition, drag a sled weighted with 180 pounds of sandbags and vault over obstacles while carrying a rifle. Those were just some of the tests the Army unveiled Tuesday as it moves toward making its physical training look more like combat...Read More

Brain Benders

Get your brain rolling...These games will make your mind boggle...Brain Fitness...Revitalize your tired mind...Improve your memory at any age with games that make your mind friskier and maybe even ward off big mental threats like Alzheimer's...help keep you sharp for years to come...you are never to young or too old to improve and increase your brain power...Read More