Meet the Beatles RAIN: A Fab Four tribute comes to Cultural Center There are very few people who can say they witnessed The Beatles perform their hits live and in the flesh. The Fab Four skyrocketed to stardom so rapidly in the U.S., they were quickly burdened by the weight of the world and no longer felt the desire to perform music live. Luckily for those not...

An eye for design … Michael Gilmartin loves design, art, history and the people and places of northeastern Pennsylvania. He taught art in the Abington Heights School district for 35 years and has been an active volunteer in the greater Scranton community for many years. So it’s quite fitting that he would be among the group of volunteers creating Dinner...

ASSORTED DECLARATIONS BY STAFF WRITER TOM GRAHAM Cabinet delivers the goods Diamond City “Best Of” readers’ poll winners Cabinet recently announced the release date of their latest project, the live in concert DVD Eleven. The show was captured live this past November in Harrisburg at the Abbey Bar at Appalachian Brewing Company, a former WWII aircraft...

The Amazing Kreskin comes to Scranton Cultural Center During our interview, The Amazing Kreskin finished the first question I had started to ask him. The world famous mentalist has been featured on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Live with Regis Philbin and is the inspiration behind the movie The Great Buck Howard. He’ll...

When I caught up with Lukas Poost, he was preparing for another night of dancing and singing on the stage while portraying the world’s most lovable ogre, Shrek. The Wyalusing native is making his way back to the area when Shrek The Musical comes to The Scranton Cultural Center this weekend. He’s been on the road since September, traveling across the...

EDITOR JULIE IMEL DISHES THE NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW They’re on a Mission Our friends at Marley’s Mission have an exciting new project underway, and, if you act quickly, you can join in the fun. They’re looking for a few hundred people to help them make a video under the direction of Dan Simrell Advertising on Thursday, Jan. 19, at the Scranton Cultural...

Listen Local I have so many memories of seeing fantastic live music at The Scranton Cultural Center throughout the years. After relocating back to the east coast in 2002, I found myself heavily involved in Scranton’s original music scene. It was at this time that electric city was sponsoring live at The RedRoom concert series at the Cultural Center. I found...

By Alicia Grega and Tom Graham january “Tom Waits has that great line about how you leave one town and go to the next and there’s a Frosty Freeze just like there was in the town you left. I guess that’s where a lot of my stories come from” — playwright Matthew Hinton at a rehearsal for his play Quiet Cowboy, which saw its world premier run at The...

On Sunday evening, Nan O’Donnell Wandalowski will be carefully watching a certain someone at the Scranton Cultural Center. Playing a matron in the Actors Circle rendition of a classic whodunnit, Murder at the Masonic, a murder on the Titanic will take place and it will be up to her to make sure she tracks her passenger’s every move while guests...

A Haunting Exhibit If you count All Hallow’s Eve, as well as the subsequent Day of the Dead and All Saints celebrations, Halloween is a holiday that extends over several days. Like the region’s many haunted attractions, which are already running, New Visions Studio & Gallery has decided to extend the celebration all month long. Opening on Friday...