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This weekend, some of the world's most visible professional wrestlers will take the ring in State College, but don't expect to catch the action from your couch. This one isn't for the cameras. World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) will be pulling into town again when the grappling gladiators from both The CW and the Sci-Fi channel merge together for Smackdown/ECW Live!
It's nearly impossible to find any Fiery Furnaces press that doesn't refer to the band as "unique" or "distinctive," but Matt Friedberger, the male half of the brother-sister duo that makes up the Furnaces, doesn't look at it that way.
While many middle school students may be primarily concerned about canceled classes on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, administrators and teachers at the State College Friends School want students to recognize the importance of King's contributions to history and civil rights.
The transition from one year to the next is traditonally a time for introspection, recollection, and setting goals for the future.
So you've decked the halls with Christmas cookies and fa-la-la-la-la'd your way dozens of times around the dessert table. Now, with all the festivities finished, you've started to resemble jolly old St. Nick a lot more than you'd like. So before you find time to make your way to the gym to work off that extra holiday joy, here are some tips and tricks to mask the bowl full of jelly you've acquired this break.
Jeff Kornberg's dream is to be a television writer, but he's leaving school at the wrong time.
When the State Theatre nearly managed to sell out a film screening last fall, they relied not on a blockbuster hit but on an independent film set right here in State College.
The State Theatre, 130 W. College Ave., features documentaries, foreign films and independent films, giving viewers the chance to see something besides what Mike Negra calls "the typical fluff movies."
Whether you went overboard scarfing down Christmas cookies or spent the last four weeks devouring mom's home-cooked meals, one thing's for sure: it's a new year, and with it comes the age-old resolution to lose some weight.
Many Penn State students rely on their bicycles for quick trips around campus. But for Jim Joyce, a 1984 Penn State alumnus, bicycles are more than just transportation. They're inspiration.
Books for classes? Check. Food for the predicted snowstorm? Check. Sitting down with my roommate and obsessing over Julia Roberts's latest dress, Atonement, Joan Rivers's face and Brangelina? No such check.
The highlight of my break, besides setting up my Roth IRA account, was Christmas.
