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Crowds enjoy the sunshine and music on the lawn of Ann Street Park at last year’s Milford Music Festival. The festival this year, which organizers had previously said they would have to suspend this year, is back on the schedule for the weekend of July 12 and 13.

They’re baaaaack!

Milford Music Festival, previously cancelled, is on again

MILFORD, PA—After announcing a cancellation earlier this year, the Milford Music Festival Board of Directors has announced that this year is a go after all. The festival, now in its sixth year, will take place in Ann Street Park on the weekend of July 12 and 13.

The board reevaluated its earlier decision, made in light of a slack economy, when local business leaders came forward to offer more financial support to the festival.

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What's at the Movies
by Ian Pugh

‘Iron Man’ succeeds as entertainment and modern parable

For as often we have associated Jon Favreau’s spectacular “Iron Man” with the song of the same name (primarily thanks to the trailers and, in its final form, during the end credits), how often do we consider that Black Sabbath was actually singing about a tragic villain? A man turned to steel in an ill-defined quest for the greater good who ends up killing “the people he once saved.” At what point must you acknowledge that fact?

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Dark comedy comes to CineArt screen in May

CALLICOON, NY—The Delaware Valley Arts Alliance and the Callicoon Theater will present director Martin McDonagh’s “In Bruges,” starring Colin Farrell, Ralph Fiennes and Brendan Gleeson as their May CineArt presentation. Screenings will be Friday, May 9 through Monday, May 12 at 7:30 p.m., with a matinee on Saturday, May 10 at 2:00 p.m. at the Callicoon Theatre, 30 Upper Main Street. Admission costs $7.50.

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