Grilled Spring Vegetable Tacos with Cauliflower Tortillas by Caitlin Van Horn at Roostblog feature a mix of asparagus, portabello, lentils, and cilantro with a plum vinegar and sesame oil and lime dressing.   Enlightened Eating Take a Load Off Your Plate   It’s all about outdoors in the summertime across The 570 — we already are where our New York...

Monday is April Fool’s Day. With that in mind, we offer you the following satirical prose to make you chuckle. Please note: the characters outlined in these stories are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.   Contain Those Chicks! Giant Peeps swarm college campus, scare the life out of local...

Everyone’s a Storyteller Share a love for Irish folklore this St. Patty’s Day   Whether specked with sunlight and rainbows or overcast with clouds, the air over Northeastern Pennsylvania will twang with an Irish vibe and glow with Emerald Isle green this week, promising corned beef and cabbage prepared with somebody’s mother’s love just around the...

Editor Julie Imel Dishes the News You Need to Know   Something’s brewing   There’s a new café in downtown Scranton, and you’ll have a chance to check it out at a grand opening celebration on Saturday, March 2, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Morning Glory Café is located inside the Manhattan Room, next to the Jermyn Hotel at 326 Spruce St. Grand...

Featured settings from past Dinner By Design events include designs by Tron Wedding & Tent Rentals (above). Photo courtesy of Julie Jordan Photography.   Visual feast Dinner by Design returns to Scranton Cultural Center   A beautifully-designed table setting is as important as a great menu when it comes to entertaining. And one of the best ways...

ASSORTED DECLARATIONS BY STAFF WRITER TOM GRAHAM   Show me, don’t tell me While most of us are attempting to digest the last of our holiday meals and settle into a month of well-deserved hibernation, several music venues in the Electric and Diamond cities are pumping up the volume. The River Street Jazz Café, 667 North River St., Plains, is keeping the...

First Friday Scranton was voted Best Ongoing Arts Event yet again in 2012.   Arts & Entertainment   Zombies are still hot; dancing D-listers not so much in 2012, according to your votes in this year’s Readers’ Poll. Television programming, films, video games, and recording artists with national reach receive the bulk of our entertainment...

You preferred Instagram to Pinterest … before Instagram disabled photo integration with Twitter.   Survey Says   That thing where the answers you supplied were lame so we came up with better ones for you. #jk   But let’s start off this look back at 2012 at the year’s catchphrases anyway. Love it or hate it (and even NPR music critics...

EDITOR JULIE IMEL DISHES THE NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW   Get jazzy this holiday season If you love jazz, and you love the holidays, you won’t want to miss a special recording of “Jazz Noel” on Tuesday, Dec. 11 at 7 p.m.  in the Sordoni High Definition Theater at WVIA Studios in Pittston. The Presbybop Christmas Eve Band led by jazz pianist Bill Carter,...

Ho Ho Ho Here Comes SantaCon! Santas invade the streets of Scranton this weekend! You better watch out. You better not cry. Better not pout. I’m telling you why. There are many Santa Clauses coming to the Electric City on Saturday, Dec. 1 as Scranton’s first SantaCon Pub crawl hits the festive downtown streets. This year’s event is titled the “Santa...