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Comedy Center Nominated As ‘Best Pop Culture Museum’ Award

The National Comedy Center, the United States’ museum and national archive dedicated to the art form of comedy, has been nominated for USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Award for “Best Pop Culture Museum.” The National Comedy Center is one of 20 museums in the United States nominated in this category by a panel of nationally recognized travel and lifestyle experts for the USA Today award series, which celebrates outstanding travel destinations, attractions and experiences, lodging, shopping sports and outdoors, and more. The National Comedy Center is currently ranked No. 1 ...

‘Directions’ exhibit opens Jan. 30 at JCC

The Weeks Gallery at SUNY Jamestown Community College will present “Directions,” a solo exhibition of works by artist Abraham Ferraro, opening Jan. 30 and on view through March 28. An opening reception and artist talk will be at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30, in the Weeks Gallery, located ...

Collage plans Christmas show

The Collage Performing Arts Center presents the 21st annual performance of “Christmas in Our Hometown” on Thursday and Friday at 7 p.m. at The 1891 Fredonia Opera House. This production demonstrates many different dance styles and features the grace and talents of Seniors Ella Duliba ...

SUNY’s youth theater series has strong opening

Fredonia’s Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center continues its mission to bring the thrill of live theater to young audiences in 2025-26. Rockefeller’s On Stage For Youth Series, which is designed to encourage thinking, creativity and fun in conjunction with school lessons, has returned ...

Fredonia singer releases new Christmas album

From the mud of Woodstock ’69 to the ancient incense of Orthodox Christianity, American singer-songwriter Jim Giatas has lived one of the most unlikely journeys in contemporary sacred music. Raised in the Orthodox Church, Giatas spent his youth chasing truth through the new age counterculture haze, Eastern mysticism, Roman Catholicism, and charismatic revivals — only to discover the fullness of the faith in the very Church where he was baptized as a child. “I ran to the ends of the earth,” he says, “and found home waiting exactly where I started.” We shall not cease from ...

Opera production dedicated to memory of Williams

The Hillman Memorial Music Association honored the memory of one of the true pioneers of the Hillman Opera – Helen Tinch Williams – at a reception prior to the Friday, Nov. 14 performance of Gian Carlo Menotti’s “The Consul.” Mrs. Williams, SUNY Fredonia Class of ‘60, had the ...