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After deciding to have a baby, most couples want to get pregnant quickly. They may see building a family as a key part of their future. But when it doesn’t happen within just a few months, disappointment can set in. About 10 percent of couples aren’t able to conceive after trying to get pregnant…

Last April, a Schwab Auditorium crowd responded enthusiastically to the Danish String Quartet’s performance of classical music. But audience members got especially excited when violinist Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen led the foursome in arrangements of half a dozen Nordic folk tunes. Sørensen will return to Schwab April 3 with Dreamers’ Circus, his trio that draws…

California’s Monterey Jazz Festival is the longest consecutively running festival of its kind. In celebration of its six decades, the festival’s touring arm will bring to Penn State a diverse roster of millennial talent representing the future leaders of jazz. The March 22 concert at Eisenhower Auditorium stars vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, who enchanted…

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…

A new face can be found leading the Central Pennsylvania Convention and Visitors Bureau. Fritz Smith comes to the role of executive director with a long list of ambitious goals for Centre County. Smith, who started at the bureau October 1, most recently worked at Visit Philadelphia, where he was the vice president of…

Visitors to the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg are greeted with huge BB-38s, the two-gun barrels of the USS Pennsylvania. Adjacent to that is Abigail, a Sherman tank, which sits in “Hurtgen Forest,” one of its two history-based forests. “Obviously, we are not in Germany, Belgium, France, Normandy, or Pearl Harbor, which in the…

Three masterful instrumentalists and the leading virtuosos on their respective instruments, Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, and Edgar Meyer move with ease among the spheres of classical, bluegrass, jazz, and world music. The musicians come together November 14 at Penn State to perform original compositions showcasing the beauty and versatility of the banjo, tabla, and…

It doesn’t hold the same revered place in our national psyche as Independence Day, but Constitution Day is gaining momentum in Centre County. Born in the wake of the contentious 2016 presidential election, Constitution Day Centre Celebration brings together residents of various viewpoints to explore and celebrate constitutional rights, responsibilities, and protections – with…

A relatively new Centre County songstress has a big voice that sounds as if it’s been around for a long time. Hearing Melanie Morrison Zeigler sing, some listeners are reminded of three of her idols: Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, and Aretha Franklin. When “Miss Melanie” of the 7-year-old band, Miss Melanie and the Valley…

Take a walk through history at the Columbus Chapel & Boal Mansion Museum