“In the Heights” has a script by Quiara Hudes and songs, many of them featuring rapped lyrics, by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of “Hamilton.” The film adaptation of the earlier show, directed by Jon Chu, is now showing in the local multiplex. Most musical fans will enjoy seeing it.

Janet Hanson does not consider herself an engineer.

Exhaust notes and musical notes were the soundtrack to the inaugural Manhattan High School Alumni All-Class Reunion in Aggieville on Saturday.

It’s summertime.

This important book, “Jesus and John Wayne,” addresses the often-asked question of how a man whose life is wildly inconsistent with the teachings of evangelical Christianity could so capture the support, even adoration, of so much of the evangelical community in the last two Presidential ele…

The movies are back to normal, and the proof is in the size of crowds attracted to new releases. “A Quiet Place” was selling out or nearly selling out local auditoriums, despite multiple showings. And “Cruella” also attracted large crowds recently.

Although running isn’t the most important thing in Pat Melgares’ life, it certainly plays a prominant role.

As the sun set and warm summer air enveloped the crowd, people danced and let loose at the first concert of Arts in the Park on Friday.

June 4th’s Arts in the Park performance was interesting for all sorts of reasons. For a fair-sized portion of the crowd of hundreds, this was the first live music performance they had attended in 15 months or more.

When you hear the word “cheese,” what sort of images go through your mind? Cheeseburgers? Blocks of cheddar? Grated bags of mozzarella? Perhaps some Pepperjack, should you be the adventurous type? Maybe even, God help you, Velveeta? (I don’t care what my wife says, it’s not cheese.) These ar…

For David Tegtmeier, becoming blind showed him a new way to experience life.

Quilts have love sewn into every stitch for a reason.

Anyone who grew up in the mid-20th century might share with John Frederick a love of films. He tells his readers he was “movie struck about the time (he) learned to walk” (page 1).

George Giles got a taste of major-league hospitality just once, decades after his baseball career had ended.

Julius Mercer said the timing of his book signing in Manhattan on the same weekend as the Big 12 Track and Field Championships at K-State was no accident.

For more than a year now, face masks have been Manhattanites’ personal billboards to communicate with the world.

If you, the reader of this venerable paper, pay any attention at all the the book reviews and who writes them (and I don’t blame you if you don’t), then you may have come to realize that I write a lot more reviews about nonfiction than fiction.

Alan Boyer said when he was thinking of how to honor his father’s legacy, he didn’t want a simple monument or a name plaque with no story attached.

Can we ever really escape the past? That’s one of the main questions at the heart of “Pickard County Atlas,” a haunting fictional debut by Chris Harding Thornton, a 7th-generation Nebraskan, whose four main characters are all trying to carve out a life in the present despite the powerful pul…

About 450 seniors graduated from Manhattan High School after a final year marked by significant changes because of the pandemic.

High school seniors from Manhattan and the surrounding area are celebrating graduation after an unorthodox year of learning, while parents and families are celebrating a new chapter in their students’ lives.