Entertainment & Culture
Art Auction
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 14:35The Afa Gallery Artists for Art, Scranton, will conduct a holiday art auction on Saturday, Nov. 22 at 6 p.m. at the Gallery. The auction is the AFA’s primary fundraiser.
Featured will be original high-quality work by regional artists from six counties. Ken Rivenberg will serve as auctioneer. A wide variety of media (oil, watercolor, sculpture, pottery, batik, photography, wood, acrylic and mono prints.) will be available.
Ronan Tynan Appearance Slated
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 14:33
This year’s performance will include selections from a variety of genres, including holiday, traditional Irish, Broadway, faith-based and contemporary.
Tynan is famous for his vast array of performances including the White House Governors’ Ball and the 9/11 Memorial Service for New York City’s fire and police departments, and has inspired and entertained audiences throughout the country.
All The World's A Stage In World-Class Theatre
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 14:20(Editor’s Note: Welcome to Part 2 of a series of articles on the Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple)
by Barb Hughes
It was famed architect Raymond Hood, designer of Rockefeller Center and other internationally known structures, who envisioned the magnificent structure that would become the Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple.
Constructed during what is known as “America’s Metropolitan Era,” the period of 1876 to 1929, the building was erected in 1927-30 through the efforts of some 4,000 area Masonic Lodge and Auxiliary members.
"Body Of Lies," Horror Movie Time
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 13:59
Mr. Scott has always made his films beautiful to look at, whether it be "Blade Runner," "Gladiator," "Alien" or "Black Hawk Down," to even his lesser films like "Legend" and "Hannibal," his films have a great visual style, and "Body of Lies" is no exception, the film looks great.
Seen Any Ghosts Lately?
Submitted by admin on Fri, 10/17/2008 - 11:39By Barb Hughes
This past Sunday about 400 people were told some fascinating ghost stories. And by whom?
Ghosts.
And why not? Who better to tell a ghost story?
And in a cemetery no less.
Workshop on Invasive Plants Scheduled
Submitted by admin on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 17:02Drive down any road in northeastern Pennsylvania or look in your own backyard and you will probably find non-native plant species, or “exotic invasive weeds” that are taking over. Those invasive plants quickly overwhelm and displace existing native plants because they grow and reproduce aggressively with few, if any, natural controls to keep them in check. Ecologists now rank invasion by exotic plants, animals and pathogens second only to habitat loss as a major threat to local biodiversity.
"STOMP" To Play Cultural Center Stage
Submitted by admin on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 16:58“STOMP,” the international sensation, will make its triumphant return to the Scranton Cultural Center on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24 and 25. This will be a limited engagement of three performances only (Oct. 24 at 8 p.m. and Oct. 25 at 2 and 8 p.m.).
“Eagle Eye” and a Farewell to Paul Newman
Submitted by admin on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 15:38“Eagle Eye” and a Farewell to Paul Newman
While watching the new techno thriller “Eagle Eye,” I couldn’t help but be reminded of older, better movies such as “Wargames,” “Enemy of the State,” “The Conversation,” and even “2001 A Space Odyssey,” to name a few of the movies that this Steven Speilberg production rips off.
This film is so profoundly ridiculous that it substitutes a semi-logical plotline and replaces it with loud noises and special effects.
"Spade & Archer" - A Classic "Maltese Falcon" Sampler
Submitted by admin on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 15:33Editor’s Note: “The Scranton Post” prints “Spade & Archer,” the first chapter of Dashiell Hammett’s classic, “The Maltese Falcon,” with permission from the publishers as a means of helping encourage the public’s enjoyment and participation in the “Scranton Reads: One City, One Book” event.
Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The v motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down-- from high flat temples--in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond satan.
