Until the other day, I had never seen a play/musical/show or anything of that sort. You could only imagine how excited I was to get the opportunity to see RENT on opening night at the Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre with a few friends. It was amazing. I had seen the movie version of the show, [...]

Enjoying winter weather can be challenging, especially if you’re stuck inside because of the temperatures. Not to worry. In Northeastern Pennsylvania, there’s one event that’s cooler than cool – and I’m not just talking about the temperature.
The Clarks Summit Festival of Ice will take place February 11-15, 2010, encompassing both President’s Day Weekend and Valentine’s [...]

My boss is a huge fan of Martin Guitars. He owns at least five of them and he’s been on the free factory tour numerous times (he says it never gets old). So on Friday, he took me to the Martin Guitar factory over in Nazareth to help me fulfill one of my last remaining New Year’s [...]

“Mom couldn’t remember to chew her food. So, I, childless non-cooking woman that I am, undertook to become my mom’s provider of food and nurturance. I feed her twice a day with pureed food.”
“Hardest for me to watch is the increasing silence. For the man who always had an opinion about everything and expressed it [...]

In one week, The Great Allentown Fair begins.
Hoo-ray!
Hoo-ray!
I’ve been going to the Allentown Fair since I was a little kid growing up in Lehigh Valley, so I have lots of memories of this annual end-of-summer event.

One of the reasons I fell in love with history is my grandmother’s red and white, 1959 Holiday edition Oldsmobile Super 88 convertible. Lovingly maintained by my grandfather, this car had a back seat the size of a couch and chrome on every corner. Each top-down, Sunday drive over the back roads of Schuylkill and [...]

When I was a kid, my uncle and grandfather worked in Oil City at factories with names like Pennzoil and Quaker State. Today, the factories are gone and my friends who live there are filmmakers and musicians.
So, next weekend, visitors will be forgiven if they can’t figure out where the “oil” in Oil City’s [...]

Erie may be a small city, but thanks to some amazing venues and patrons, we get big city entertainment without the traffic and the ticket prices. Within 2 miles of our home, one of the greatest and newest venues sits on the campus of Mercyhurst College: the D’Angelo Performing Arts Center.
Mercyhurst is known around here [...]

There’s not much to Seneca, PA, a tiny community in Venango County stretching along Route 257. It’s elongated rather than compact. There’s no real downtown, but along the strip of 84 Lumber, discount smoke stores and four wheeler dealerships sits Brother Bean Global Coffee House, the best live music venue in Northwestern PA.
Bruce [...]

I started going to First Fridays my freshman year at Temple mainly because it was a fun way to explore one of Philly’s historic neighborhoods on a student budget. On the first Friday of each month, Old City’s art galleries open their doors to give guests a look at their latest exhibitions and many offer [...]