literature

OLEAN, NY — The Olean Theatre Workshop has announced the coming season, with the two plays of 2019 new to the theater world and the two for 2020 from ...

This is no joke: The National Comedy Center in Jamestown was named one of TIME magazine’s “World’s Greatest Places” in the publication’s Sept. 2 cover...

As the new head of programming at the Olean Public Library, Leanne Oliveira is anxious to conduct activities this summer that will not only appeal to ...

With a backdrop of Revolutionary War-era New York and Pennsylvania — well-timed for the Independence Day weekend — Olean author Elizabeth Bysiek annou...

OLEAN — An author who used the Bartlett House for settings in her novels will be the key attraction at the property during this weekend’s StrOlean eve...

In 1934 an author named James Hilton wrote a novel that within weeks of publication became a runaway bestseller. Hilton called the book “Good-bye, Mr....

It’s rare that a Godzilla movie will please most of the fans. With the exception of the original from 1954 and a couple from the 1960s, debates about ...

OLEAN — A New York City-based licensing agency says the Olean Theatre Workshop casting a white actress as a slave character violated its licensing agr...

Pokémon has been a lot of things to a lot of people over the past 23 years. Video games, trading cards, an animated show and more. With more than 30 o...

The Olean Theatre Workshop offers Arthur Miller’s classic drama “The Crucible” tonight and Saturday at 7:30 pm and on Sunday at 2:30 pm at the Washing...

PORTVILLE — More than 140 kids will be strutting their stuff onstage during Portville Central School Drama Club’s production of “Beauty and the Beast ...

While “Captive State” is not a particularly innovative or memorable film, it is one of the most different takes on an alien invasion movie I’ve ever s...

If you look back and reflect, as I often do, you might discover that the friends you’ve collected are like charms strung across the bracelet of a life...

Beauty, pain and serenity can be found in the greater Olean area, as made apparent by a new book of poetry. “Camping in the Galaxy: Haibun and Other W...

It’s always sad when a such a great story has to end. With the “How to Train Your Dragon” trilogy, none of the installments were a weak link. Each cou...

What New Year’s resolutions are you pursuing as the mid-month is upon us? Which have you already given up on? Or maybe your intentions for 2019 are mo...

A Hollywood remake of famous foreign films is nothing new to American audiences. “The Seven Samurai” became “The Magnificent Seven,” “Yojimbo” became ...

“The three Cs in life: choice, chance, change. You must make the choice to take the chance if you want anything in life to change.” This quote by an u...