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New 11/16/08 Scranton Art Show to Host Local DIY Fashion Guru

I’ll admit it—I’m not much of a fashion critic.  And as far as hair accessories go, I’m certainly the wrong person to talk to.  However, it’s hard for anyone, even me, not to appreciate the adventurous designs of my friend Amber Rae Dougherty (a.k.a. A Slave to the Details).  After a hit show a few First Fridays ago at Duffy Accessories in downtown . . .

New 11/13/08 Dillinger Four and Tom Gabel Reviews:

The Gaslight Anthem: Great Expectations

 Autumn has already begun to seep into September’s bones.  As the crowd swells into anticipation for Gaslight Anthem’s set, no one is really ready for crisp chords ringing out of twin amps on the small Café Metropolis stage in Wilkes-Barre.  Suddenly, the bird-bone hollow blackness of this former storefront feels at once immense and intimate.  The road has made for a lean, mean rhythm, as natural a friction and balance as rubber and asphalt.  For a band that has spent over 500 days on the road in the last two years, miles of days translate into spontaneous group. . .

Local Band Spotlight: Livingston 

It’s rare when a band of more than four years could change so dramatically from its start that the members consider their current project almost a new beginning. But it’s even more uncommon when, during this growing and changing process, the members as individuals remain just as modest and close of friends as when they first decided to get together and jam as high school kids. 

“Our constant need to bust each other's balls is what makes us all work well together,” says Scott Durkin, guitarist/vocalist of Scranton band Livingston.  

Nightmare Video: Offering Screams Year-Round

Let’s say you’re a horror movie fanatic.  Let’s say you want to rent some early German silent films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, some Universal monster classics like Dracula, and some 1980s gore flicks like David Cronenberg’s The Brood. . .

Halloween Viewing Alternatives: A Roger Corman Triple Feature

Roger Corman is best known for producing and directing countless low-budget B movies from the 1950s up through the present day.  Indeed, his production credits on IMDb.com number 385.  Of the films he has directed, none are perhaps more famous than the Edgar Allan Poe adaptations he made starring Vincent Price.  However, from 1959 to 1961, he collaborated three times with screenwriter Charles B. Griffith to produce three of the best low-budget dark comedies ever conceived.  These are A Bucket of Blood, The Little Shop of Horrors, and Creature from the Haunted Sea.

Vintage Theater Set to Open in Scranton

Forbes magazine recently named Scranton as one of the fastest dying cities in the United States. With tremendous staff cuts to the fire department, threats of teacher strikes, church closings and the constant chatter of recession, it’s no shocker an economic uncertainty is hanging over the city. On the other hand, walking around the courthouse square on a Friday or Saturday night gives off only the impression that Scranton is thriving culturally. With venues like The Manhattan Room Project, The Electric Theater Company and art festivals such as The Scranton Jazz Festival, First Night and the first time Scranhattan Festival, some consider the city to be in a kind of cultural transition or revolution if you will.

Critical Mass Movement Comes to Scranton

A group of cyclists have brought a national movement to Scranton to raise awareness about auto-dependency and bicycle laws.

The Scranton Critical Mass, which is a leaderless movement, begins at 6 p.m. at the N.Washington Street side of Courthouse Square the last Friday of every month. The cyclists do not partake in the critical mass to irk motorists, but rather to make them aware that cyclists also have rights to the road and should not be harassed for choosing an alternative means of transportation.