6+ hour, 2+ min ago  (700+ words) It pays to be about the same height as actors like Finn Wittrock, Alan Ruck and Matthew Rhys. Bryan Vavro, an alumnus of Butler Senior High School, has been a stand-in on filming sets for each of them and more,…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (751+ words) NEW YORK " "Michael," the big-budget Michael Jackson spectacle, shrugged off bad reviews and a troubled production to launch with $97 million in U. S. and Canada theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday, shattering a record debut for music biopics. A highly authorized portrayal…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (555+ words) BELGRADE, Serbia " An amateur pop choir that started with a couple dozen singers in a small Serbian town has found unexpected success across the country. Its motto? Anyone can sing. While community choirs are common in other countries, they are…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1254+ words) The White House Correspondents' Dinner has had multiple iterations since it began a few years after World War I. Washington's premier soiree on Saturday is most identified by its modern form: a red carpet for the capital's journalism elite, political staffers…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (529+ words) Perhaps the saddest thing about "I Swear," the moving if also occasionally cloying film about Tourette's activist John Davidson, is that a movie aimed at forging understanding ended up unwittingly causing division and horror " at a ceremony where it was…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (284+ words) Two local music legends, including a Butler County native, are expected to take the stage to kick off the second day of the 2026 NFL Draft. Bret Michaels, the Chicora-born frontman of the band Poison, will join Pittsburgh native Wiz Khalifa…...

5+ day, 11+ min ago  (519+ words) While hundreds of thousands converged upon Pittsburgh's city center for the first night of the NFL draft, a Butler County football icon brought a piece of the draft experience closer to home. On Thursday night, April 23, hundreds gathered in the…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago  (643+ words) Theatergoers of a certain age will recognize the DNA of "Disaster! A Musical," the gleefully absurd jukebox musical spoof by Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick. Drawing inspiration from the all-star catastrophe films of the 1970s " like "The Towering Inferno," "Earthquake" and…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago  (812+ words) SAXONBURG " Emily Roebling never set foot in Saxonburg in her lifetime, but her name lives on here because her father-in-law, John Roebling, invented wire rope right in the borough. Wire rope made the suspension of the Brooklyn Bridge possible. And…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1129+ words) A book often generates a lengthy waitlist in the Butler County Federated Library System when it is adapted into a movie or TV show. So if you are 38th in line for a copy of "Project Hail Mary," librarians may be…...