Venangoland's reach extends all the way to China with the latest update.

Tonight's Venango Campus movie is Friends with Money. I'm skipping this one. Jennifer Aniston in a maid's uniform makes me feel queasy. But not in a good way. If you're going, the flick starts at 7:30 in Rhoades Auditorium and is free.

The fallout from Edinboro University's blackface party continues

Meadville continues to take some really interesting steps in its downtown revitalization which now will include "green roofs"?

1,000 area fourth- through 12th-graders competed in the Pittsburgh Public Theatre's Shakespeare Monologue Contest.

An Oral History of Islam in Pittsburgh is a regionally produced, feature-length documentary.
By the early 1930s, it might surprise you to learn, Pittsburgh had a sizable and growing number of what filmmaker Haroon Al-Qahtani calls "indigenous Muslims": Black Americans who adopted some version of Islam.

The Pittsburgh Opera has announced its upcoming season:
Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Oct. 13-21
Donizetti's Elixir of Love, Nov. 10-18
Verdi's Aida, March 29--April 6, 2008
Bellini's Capulets and Montagues, May 3--11, 2008.

Now's your chance to vote for Venango County as one of the best small town arts destination. Vote early, vote often, and tell all your friends.

If ever there was an art movement that begged to be replicated in Venango, it's got to be The Crucible.

The Crucible is an arts education center that fosters the collaboration of art, industry and community. Through training in the fine and industrial arts, The Crucible promotes creative expression, reuse of materials and innovative design while serving as an accessible arts venue for the public.

Michael Harper's poem about segregation in baseball, "BLACKJACK" is the inspiration for composer Richard Danielpour's new work, "Pastime," which will premier at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Saturday.

Public Transit in Western PA? It's true. There's now a free bus running from Meadville to Edinboro University.

The Observer covers a reissue of one of my favorite graphic novels, Chicken With Plums. There's been a lot of Persepolis talk on this blog, and if you liked that, this is another good bet.

Looks like my old neighborhood will soon be part of Harvard.

Paul Simon needs to intervene on this right now. Surely he has some sort of work Art could do....