County native plays the Opry

Michael Angert was at the Grand Ole Opry for the performance on Saturday.

Guitarist Michael Angert, originally from Butler County, moved to Nashville, Tenn., to pursue music full time four and a half years ago.

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January Ice Jam bluegrass festival canceled

New venue being sought

The annual January Ice Jam Bluegrass Festival will not take place this year due to lack of venue.

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Student wins chance to play with Butler Symphony

Emma Kim, a pianist from North Hills High School, won the Butler Symphony's Young Artist Competition on Sunday.

Student pianist Emma Kim, of North Hills High School, was named overall winner of the Butler County Symphony Orchestra's Young Artist Competition on Sunday.

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Academy Awards will have a host

The Academy Awards will follow a different script in 2022.

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PEOPLE

The Grand Ole Opry, a weekly concert regarded as the most prestigious show for country musicians, is under fire after a surprise appearance from controversial singer Morgan Wallen.

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‘Grey’s Anatomy’ renewed for season 19

ABC renews ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ for its 19th season

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‘Spider-Man’ stays at No. 1 in 4th weekend

This image provided by Universal Pictures shows Diane Kruger, from left, Jessica Chastain and Lupita Nyong'o from the film

The glamorous spies of “The 355” were no competition for the movie theater’s reigning webslinger.

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Unsung heroes rise as Broadway fights virus

A person walks past an electronic board reading “Welcome Back to Broadway!” on Dec. 17 after cancellations of the broadway shows due to COVID-19 cases in New York City, which had been mostly spared from a big surge in cases across the northeastern and midwestern U.S. since Thanksgiving, but the situation has changed rapidly.

NEW YORK — The theatrical magic keeping Broadway going during the latest coronavirus surge has been the unheralded performers ready to step into any role in an emergency. Then there’s Carla Stickler, who had actually left show business but returned to rescue “Wicked.”

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Coming of age in New York

“Brown Girls” by Daphne Palacio Andreades (Penguin Random House)

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‘The 355’ is solid, but by-the-numbers thriller

Lupita Nyong’o stands in front of a vehicle during a scene from “The 355.” Nyong’o plays a former MI6 operative in this spy thriller.

It’s always a little suspect when too much is made of a big action movie being “female-fronted.

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Moral deeds are punished in Farhadi’s ‘A Hero’

In Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s films, reasonably straightforward set-ups — a divorce, a missing woman, a newly lent apartment — unspool such complex, cascading developments that it comes as no surprise that a found handbag stuffed with gold coins leads to countless...

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Orion, the king of the winter sky, part 1

The constellations of winter are simply the best. Nowhere else in the Butler night sky will you see as many bright stars and bright constellations packed so closely together.

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Party will honor late actress Betty White

Hometown to recognize legacy

A birthday celebration fit for a queen has pivoted to a memorial for the last of America’s treasured “Golden Girls.”

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Grammys postponed due to virus

The Grammy Awards have been postponed because of the surging omicron COVID-19 variant.

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Winner of young artist contest will play with symphony

The Butler County Symphony Orchestra will hold its 43rd annual Young Artist Competition from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday at the Swope Hall at Slippery Rock University.