A Tribute to the Carpenters: Valentine’s Day at SteelStacks
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…
1991 to 2019: Empowering Change with Anita Hill
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…
“Anita” Documentary and Talkback Brings Important Discussion to South Bethlehem
The Frank Banko Alehouse Cinema is part of the massive ArtsQuest complex which was once the Bethlehem Steel company. The steel…
Halsey Kicks off Lehigh Go Campaign
The pop icon, Halsey, inspired a massive crowd during her performance at the Go: The Campaign for Lehigh fundraising initiative on…
Bethlehem Welcomes Christkindlmarkt and the Spirit of the Holidays
When I was a kid, I counted down the days until the Christmas season came around. I couldn’t wait until my…
Not Your Average Home Videos: SteelStacks Welcomes the Found Footage Festival
When my friend asked me to attend the Found Footage Festival with her at SteelStacks, I can’t say that I knew…
“But How Did You Feel?” A Reflection on Welfare, Community, and Love
On Thursday, October 18, 2018, twenty Lehigh Valley residents came together to address the painful stigmas surrounding welfare in the U.S.…
The Notations Series: Jacqueline Woodson’s Lessons in Dreaming
It’s remarkable when you can see so much of yourself in a person who initially seems so different from you. Jacqueline…
A Bethlehem Harvest
The Bethlehem Harvest Fest, which took place in historic North Side Bethlehem, was full of local venders and great music on Saturday,…
“Juliet, Naked” (2018) Explores Familial Redemption
Juliet, Naked is a great movie that outlines how relationships—and how you are treated within them—are important in order to be…