Drastic cuts to school music programs across the nation — including two local school districts — helped inspire two residents to launch a new performing arts center in Scranton.

Founder and Creative Director Lance Miley and President Robin McArdle of Scranton-based nonprofit Making Music Matter for Kids are opening the Place on the second floor of the Marketplace at Steamtown.

The Place will offer free and low-cost music lessons and programs for prekindergarten through high school kids and will host ongoing, weekly events to showcase national acts as well as regional talent.

Perhaps due to its relatively recent release, Cam has suffered a significant lack of scholarly attention. Critical and popular reception has focused on the film as a meditation on the darker sides of the internet, adopting a realist paradigm in which the doppelgangers infecting online sex workers are deepfakes and the product of virtual surveillance. In this study, we propose that the post-cinematic ethos of the film both invites and defies a clear interpretive framework for naming the anxieties...

Whether or not we should read meaningful intentionality into the sequencing of poems in Emily Dickinson’s fascicles seems contested amongst scholars, including R.W. Franklin, who first identified Dickinson’s poems as clusters and put them in order—an exercise taken up later by Cristanne Miller, who "presents her poems here for the first time 'as she preserved them'," replicating what Dickinson herself did when tethering together sheets of poetry.

Such a process would, for perhaps any other white, male author, have been more than enough evidence for scholars to posit an intentionality to the fascicle’s structure. However, for Dickinson, the assumption has been different, with Franklin himself contending that “no aesthetic principle governs their binding," proposing instead that the fascicles were simply "meant to order (tidy up) rather than to arrange (make significant) (Cameron 13; 15).

When Jim O’Neill bought his first cigar 20 years ago, he didn’t know about its subtle notes of chocolate, mint, coffee or nuts — he just wanted to relax.He doesn’t remember the brand either, just that it was “very mild” and he liked it. But after years of conversing with cigar aficionados, researching cigar magazines and developing his palate, he speaks with an encyclopedia-like knowledge.O’Neill opened his own business, Willow Avenue Cigar Lounge, about a year ago in Olyphant for a simple reaso...

Ms. Morrison's versatility and technical and emotional range appear to know no bounds. If there were any doubts about her stature as a pre-eminent American novelist, of her own or any other generation, ‘Beloved'’ will put them to rest. In three words or less, it's a hair-raiser. - Margaret Atwood

The occasional excesses of rhetoric (and sentimentality) in ‘Beloved’ may reflect an anxiety that in Morrison that she attributes to her heroine: a need to overfeed and overprotect her children…One of...

Nineteen minutes after accepting an offer to pursue her master’s degree at Syracuse University, Maeve King received an unexpected email with a life-changing opportunity.The 23-year-old Dunmore native and 2020 graduate of West Chester University had the chance to spend eight months teaching in South America.She accepted.From March to November 2022, King will be a Fulbright teaching assistant in Uruguay, South America, working approximately 35 hours a week: 20 hours teaching in a classroom and 15...

SCRANTON — From legislation to protect animals to the challenges of helping Pennsylvania become a “no kill” state, advocates from across the county talked about how to improve animal welfare in the region. Laura Ducceschi, president and CEO of the Scranton Area Community Foundation, hosted the two-hour discussion today at the Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel.

Both the state Department of Environmental Protection and Old Forge have taken action against Walter Stocki and his properties, SEI Inc. and Scrap Enterprises Inc., for a laundry list of violations dating back to 2013. Neighbors have complained about the property, as well....