The Reg Lenna Center For The Arts, with a newly installed digital projection and sound system, will offer movies throughout most of the summer.The new series of films continues with Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (June 4 at 8 p.m.). In The Grand Budapest Hotel, quirky filmmaker, Wes ...

The Cattaraugus County Arts Council is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Executive Director, Tina Hastings, who will begin her tenure in June of 2014. Tina comes to the Arts Council with a strong background in arts administration and will replace former executive director, Anne ...

As the North Shore Arts Alliance gears up for the start of the 2014 Chau-tauqua-Lake Erie Art Trail this weekend, the group will welcome eight new artists to the Trail giving guests even more opportunities to visit the personal, and often private, places where artists live and create their ...

Submitted PhotoSara Hart, newly appointed Darwin R. Barker library director, was welcomed by Joe Gugino, incoming president, as the guest speaker at a recent Fredonia Rotary meeting. Hart is a Chautauqua County native. She earned a bachelor's degree in art history from SUNY at Fredonia and a ...

JAMESTOWN - The Lucy Desi Museum & Center for Comedy is partnering with Infinity Visual & Performing Arts and hosting four comedy workshops over the next two weeks for the annual Chautauqua in Bloom series, May 24-June 20.Registration for each workshop costs $30, and tickets may ...

JAMESTOWN - Dr. Stanley Weintraub will deliver the 10th annual Murray L. Bob Memorial Lecture at 7 p.m. on Oct. 21, on the topic Escape into Christmas: Korea 1950.The speaker is a historian and the award-winning author of more than 50 books. He is a National Book Award finalist and a former ...

The work of an artist is always personal. Their response to the world in which everyone lives, takes a variety of forms: paintings, photographs, ceramics, sculptures, fabrics. Now here is an opportunity to see and visit the personal, and often private, places where artists live and create their ...

Only a short drive from our area, there are three wonderful, world class arts festivals preparing to thrill us, entertain us, teach us, comfort us and all the many other things which the arts can do for their audiences.We will have to wait another month for the American festival which is ...

TPT is a local band that has playing together for three years. The name stands for Teachers, Preachers ... and Trent. The band was put together to play a fundraiser at Jamestown High School back in 2011. What was supposed to be a one-time thing has endured. The band is made up of Jay Baehr on ...

The North Shore Arts Alliance invites the community to the opening reception for "The Not So Grand Landscape" art exhibition running from May 16 through June 22 at Sensory Winery & Art Gallery in Ripley. The opening reception takes place this Friday, May 16 from 7 to 9 p.m.Show curator ...

On May 18, Celoron Legion will host "Randy Jam," a celebration of the life of Randy Hofgren, who passed away in February after a short Illness. Hofgren, a lifelong area resident, was a highly respected musician who played with several local acts including Synergy and Underground Stampede, and ...

JAMESTOWN - The Reg Lenna Center for the Arts reaches into its own past while also taking a big step forward with a wide-ranging schedule of arts and entertainment set for the 2014-2015 season.The Reg Lenna Center for the Arts will kick off its first full season in five years this fall with a ...

JAMESTOWN - Early auditions for Jamestown Community College's production of "Les Miserables" will be held May 29 and 30.The auditions, which begin at 7 p.m. in Scharmann Theatre on JCC's Jamestown Campus, are open to students and community members.Those auditioning must prepare a song that will ...

Now in its third year, Academy Week at SUNY Fredonia offers specialized instruction in various fields of music study, with a unique focus each year. A combination of scholarly investigation, hands-on performance practice and public concert performances creates a unique and in-depth experience ...

Incidents have been reported back to the earliest pages of the Bible, in which certain people can be induced into taking actions which are counter to their own best interests, by people whom they find fascinating. Often the attraction for the individual is a sexual attraction. In other cases, ...

JAMESTOWN - The Lucy Desi Center for Comedy has released its first comedy album, "Live From Jamestown: Late Night @ Lucy Comedy Fest."The album, which was recorded during the 2013 Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, is now available on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, SoundCloud and anywhere comedy content ...

3rd On 3rd Gallery will open again on May 10 with Strange Allure.Strange Allure is an exhibition of recent art and photography by 15 artists from the western New York region, a number of whom have not exhibited in Jamestown before. While the selection is widely divergent, a through-line emerges ...

All the way from Switzerland on their US Tour, Journeys bring their exciting, timeless mix of grooving funk tunes, beautiful ballads and kicking worldmusic jazz to Infinity Arts Cafe, 115 E. Third St. in Jamestown on Wednesday, May 14 from 7 to 8 p.m. For more than a decade the six experienced ...

DEAR ABBY: I'm a 27-year-old woman trapped in a loveless marriage. My husband is a few years younger, and very co-dependent. Before he dated me, he had never had a girlfriend or a sexual encounter. I came into the relationship with a child and some trust/fear issues because my ex had abused ...

The Chautauqua Children's Chorale, under the direction of Marjorie Bohn, is set to close their 2013-2014 concert season with their annual Voices of Spring Concert on Friday, May 9 at the Fredonia First United Methodist Church. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. and will feature both Junior and ...