In medieval times, a city's cathedral was the center of its community life, and the music performed there was considered a spiritual conduit between human beings and their God.

The Oregon Cultural Trust announced Friday that a record number of grants totaling $1.65 million will be awarded for fiscal year 2009, a 21 percent increase for the innovative program that benefits the arts, heritage and humanities.

SHAMOKIN — A man dressed in knee breeches and socks, suspenders and a cap, riding on a Victorian high wheel unicycle, pedals through an alley off Independence Street early Friday evening — quite an unusual site in the city.

SPRINGDALE – Z-ARTS! will host a humanities lecture by Richard Turley, who recently completed the book “Massacre at Mountain Meadows,” which will be published in July by Oxford University Press.

UNCG's new Chancellor Linda P. Brady says she wants to make it a priority to spend more time with the students. Already this year she has participated in a SOAR session, dropped in on some classes, and attended SGA's State of the Campus, just to name a