Every November, National Novel Writing Month issues a challenge: write a 50,000-word novel by the end of the month. Nearly 400,000 people participated last year, and some popular titles have come out of NaNoWriMo projects, such as Water for Elephants, The Night Circus, Wool, Fangirl, The Darwin Elevator, and Cinder. You […]
Season two of the creepy, nostalgia-inducing Netflix series Stranger Things begins streaming Friday, just in time for Halloween. The first season followed a series of Dungeons & Dragons-loving friends as they try to save their friend from a supernatural creature living in an alternate dimension. One you’ve binged the new season, […]
The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre will present Ballet FUNdamentals at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Mt. Pleasant Free Public Library, 120 S. Church St. Read more on the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s website.
Adams Memorial Library, 1112 Ligonier St., Latrobe will be the site of a kick-off event at 1 p.m. Oct. 21, as WQED partners with the library on its “Inquire Within” initiative. Read more on the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s website.
Mt. Pleasant resident and playwright Stacy Lyn DiPasquale will give a staged reading of her first full-length play, “Not Ready Yet,” at 4 p.m. Oct. 22 at the Mt. Pleasant Free Public Library, 120 S. Church St. Read more in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Peoples Library (New Kensington) will hold its 10th annual Adventure with Wine fundraiser on October 17. Read more on the Tribune-Review’s website.
Residents of the Greensburg Hempfield Area Library‘s service area will have the opportunity to vote on a referendum that will raise much-needed money for the library. Read more on the Tribune-Review’s website.
The latest One Book, One Community book pick is My Antonia by Willa Cather. This classic novel tells the story of a family of Bohemian immigrants who create a home in the Nebraskan prairie. Its nostalgic style and character-driven plot absorbs the reader and brings the American West to life. One Book, […]
Latrobe’s Adams Memorial Library will mark its 90th anniversary with a reception at the library Saturday at 1112 Ligonier St. Read more from the Tribune-Review.
When people hear the phrase “banned book,” a scene from Fahrenheit 451 often comes to mind. Luckily, we live in a time and place when objectionable books are not collected, burned, destroyed so no one will ever be able to read them. However, people will sometimes demand that a book […]