literature

No one — and I mean no one — thought a big-screen movie adaptation of Nintendo’s Super Mario video games would ever happen again. The first attempt, r...

OLEAN — The Olean Meditation Center is pleased to announce that Ben Howard will be leading a program on zen practices Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p...

JAMESTOWN — Neil Flory, SUNY Jamestown Community College associate professor and coordinator of music, had a book of his poems, titled “mudtrombones k...

ALFRED — The Alfred State Drama Club will present “Game of Tiaras” as their spring production. Four performances, including two dinner theater showing...

ST. BONAVENTURE — St. Bonaventure University will host poet John Rybicki of Detroit for a reading on Thursday, March 30, at 5:30 p.m. in the Athletics...

PORTVILLE — Most librarians will tell you that murder mysteries are very popular with their readers. When it’s a murder, most readers like to have som...

When the audience arrives at the Bradford Area High School auditorium next week, they will be amazed how the stage has been transformed into an ice ri...

OLEAN — Will Eisner is often credited with creating the term “graphic novel” in relation to his 1978 book, “A Contract with God.” However, the oldest ...

Second Lt. Lawrence B. Carter, from Olean, was commander of a tank company in the 17th Tank Battalion on Nov. 23, 1944. On that day, near Beeck, Germa...

First, they came for Roald Dahl. Anyone who thought the politically correct rewriting would stop at the irreverent author of such children’s classics ...

Like the rest of the sane universe, we couldn’t believe the gall of PuffinU.K.when word came out that the publishing house and theRoald Dahl Story Co....

PORTVILLE — “Disney’s Frozen Jr.,” a musical based on the hit 2013 Disney film and the 2018 Broadway adaptation, will be presented at Portville Centra...

I read the Olean Times Herald article regarding the controversy over the book “Gender Queer” in the Wellsville High School library. The article’s auth...

Did you know libraries are for everyone? In the past libraries were basically a repository for books and a solemn, quiet place for the grimly quiet an...

OLEAN — National Library Lovers Month in February is dedicated to celebrating everything we love about what the library does for our community. The Ol...

CUBA — Cuba Library will host a virtual author talk with true crime writer Roseanne Montillo at 7 p.m. Feb. 23. She will discuss her new book, “Delibe...

FILLMORE — The Town Theatre of Short Tract will once again endeavor to chase away the midwinter blues with the murder-mystery comedy spoof “Alibis,” w...

Word has been received that poet and long-time Hinsdale resident Thomas Krampf died Nov. 16 in La Rochelle, France. Krampf is remembered by friends an...