Celebrating Bethlehem's Southside Culture
The Banana Factory’s latest exhibition, Common Threads, features the work of three talented fiber artists: Tabitha Arnold, Ariel Posh, and Lily Wilkins. While the exhibition focuses on the role of violence in our everyday lives, the artists’ use of fiber materials creates a clear dichotomy between the subject and the medium. Many of the pieces…
On my usual Sunday nights, especially when the cold seeps through the cracks of my dorm window, I curl up in bed with a mountain of blankets draped over me. My laptop perched high on top of the summit, headphones shoved delicately into my ears as 80’s romance movies play. But this particular Sunday was…
For Valentine’s Day, Musikfest Café presented Top of the World: A Carpenters Tribute featuring Debbie Taylor. Despite the chill in the air and the snow on the ground, music lovers poured into café seating to experience the best-selling music of the Carpenters over three decades after Karen Carpenter’s early death. It is not entirely accurate…
Looking around Baker Hall, I couldn’t help but notice the diverse array of faces in the sea of people filling the auditorium to maximum capacity. A white elderly couple sits to my right, relieved to finally have a break after waiting in line for almost two hours. To my left, a Black woman proclaims she…
The Frank Banko Alehouse Cinema is part of the massive ArtsQuest complex which was once the Bethlehem Steel company. The steel stacks themselves, icons of Bethlehem, stand tall over the scene, lit up green and blue so they draw the eye at night as powerfully as during the day. They’re an emblem of a community…
The pop icon, Halsey, inspired a massive crowd during her performance at the Go: The Campaign for Lehigh fundraising initiative on Thursday, October 25. This event kicked off the campaign publicly, providing a space for the Lehigh community to enjoy an evening filled with food and entertainment. While the Lehigh launch was just one of…
When I was a kid, I counted down the days until the Christmas season came around. I couldn’t wait until my dad and I put up and decorated our tree while my mom “supervised” from the living room, wrapped every available railing in garland, and set out the wide array of nutcrackers my parents had…
When my friend asked me to attend the Found Footage Festival with her at SteelStacks, I can’t say that I knew what to expect. The only background knowledge I had was that the festival consisted of a series of recovered VHS tapes, and I wondered if it would be a similar experience to watching an…
On Thursday, October 18, 2018, twenty Lehigh Valley residents came together to address the painful stigmas surrounding welfare in the U.S. This free public event was part of an ongoing discussion series hosted by Tackling T.I.N.A., an organization that aims to broaden the local community’s understanding of economic justice. The discussion series serves as a…
It’s remarkable when you can see so much of yourself in a person who initially seems so different from you. Jacqueline Woodson was born in Ohio and grew up in Greenville, South Carolina after her mom left her dad. She moved to Brooklyn with her family when she was seven to escape Jim Crow. She…