December 2018

A year ago, I wrote my Letter from The General Manager about new beginnings and embracing new possibilities. As I reflect back on this past year at Town&Gown, I am proud of all the hard work the staff has put in to producing such a quality magazine. In 2018, we completed a reader survey…

It’s a Tony Award-winning musical about a shy girl from Brooklyn who becomes one of the most successful pop songwriters of all time. But casting directors for Beautiful–The Carole King Musical have found that three actresses raised in Chicago, not New York City, have the right blend of talents to evoke the star of the…

For years, Jason McIntyre has been making a big impact on the State College music scene – on and off the stage. McIntyre picked up his first guitar at 13 to join his friends who were playing music together. “We were listening to a lot of Beach Boys, trying to learn those songs,”…

In June 2018, Shizuka Buckley, her husband, Sam Buckley, and their friend, Christian Baum, launched Giv Local – a State College-based credit card processing company with a socially responsible twist. Giv Local charges businesses a credit card processing rate that is equal to or less than the rate the merchant is currently paying. In…

Whether amateur or professional, performing artists have unique health needs based on their particular art form. Musicians, singers, dancers, actors, and other performers should take precautions to maintain good health so they can do their best on stage. Injury prevention It’s easy to see how an athletic dancer might fall and suffer a…

From Millheim’s rise as a flourishing industrial town in the mid-1800s, through the decline of the mills that once sustained it, to the town’s current cultural revitalization, one store has been there through it all, serving the needs of residents and farmers in Penns Valley for well over a century. Hosterman and Stover, a family-owned…