Meet the Grassroots Collective Serving Bethlehem’s Punk DIY Scene
It’s Friday the 13th in October, the spookiest day of the year. National Sokols Lodge on Bethlehem’s South Side is nearing capacity, filled with an energetic, multi-generational audience shouting along to cover bands playing their favorite songs from bands like My Chemical Romance, Black Sabbath, and Title Fight. A fog machine billows gray smoke into…
October First Saturday Horror Series Draws Community Around David Cronenberg
Since 2012, the First Saturday Horror Series at Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas has offered movie-goers a monthly horror film selection. Pulling from a deep well that includes both well-loved classics and lesser-known gory gems, the programming highlights the diversity of form, subject matter, and aesthetic style that exists underneath the horror umbrella. Every October, the…
Festival Unbound’s The Most Beautiful Home…Maybe Asks Poignant, Painful Questions About Our Housing Crisis
From September 27th-October 1st, Touchstone Theatre held its fifth annual Festival Unbound, a hyper-local arts celebration full of community workshops, theatrical…
Basement Poetry Presents: “I feel you. I sense you…” by Nia Watson
“I feel you. I sense you…” Lyrics: About Nia Watson: Nia began has been working in early childhood and development for…
Basement Poetry Presents: “American Roots” by Trevor Harewood
“American Roots” I don’t know what to say anymore. Half of America is literally fighting to hold on to racism. And…
Basement Poetry Presents: “Drag” by Kellie Donaldson
“Drag” *inhale cigarette* She takes a drag Oh what a drag Oh What a drag This poor black girl aint even…
Save Our Swifts: Modeling a Solution between Conservation and Development
Throughout Bethlehem, the story of the collaboration between activists and developer John Noble to save a chimney swift migration habitat has…
Basement Poetry Presents: Two poems by Nia Watson
“To The Others” & “There is no need to enforce discipline…” About Nia Watson: Nia began has been working in early…
Basement Poetry Presents: “Magical Melanin” by Zora Thomas
“Magical Melanin” Oh yes I love this magical melanin on this skin. The way the moon creates pathways for the stars…
Basement Poetry Presents: “Questions that took too long to ask” by Nia Watson
“Questions that took too long to ask” Lyrics: About Nia Watson: Nia began has been working in early childhood and development…