McGovern News

Linked in: Back row, left to right, Andrew Kilbride, Anthony Thompson, Jean Young, Alan Wood, John Payne, Claire Quinn.

Every Tuesday evening, Gretchen Lux has a standing date with 30 guys. The odds are definitely in the favor of Lux, the director of the Harbor City Harmonizers, an organization that has sung the praises of barbershop harmony for 25 years.

This singular adaptation of Homer's epic poem was written by actor Denis O'Hare and director Lisa Peterson, who will mount the Guthrie's upcoming production of "Clybourne Park." Yoakam, who portrays The Poet telling about the siege of Troy, is directed by Benjamin McGovern.

In a small corner of his office in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, McGovern - sporting a neatly tucked-in maroon sweater along with his trademark white beard - is beginning his daily routine.

Three local members of the miliary will be honored during Wednesday's Northampton Township Board of Supervisors meeting.

I'm digging the newest light beer on the market. As a beer with mass, but not a mass-market beer, this rookie is so light it is totally weightless - in space, that is.