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Celebrating Bethlehem's Southside Culture

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Exhibit Features Young Artists in Our Community

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Fight Against Mariner East and PennEast Pipelines Continue as Public Hearing Approaches

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Basement Poetry Presents: “In Case of a BLK PLANET” by kiki nicole

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Reflections on Civic Life and the Pandemic: Joe Lule on the Benefits of Parklets

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“Ebony’s Flaws:” A Poem by Corey Riotz

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New Bethany Ministries Takes on Covid-19

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“The American Dream:” A Poem by Milo Wilson

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Bradbury-Sullivan Queer Poetry Group Discusses Danez Smith’s “Don’t Call Us Dead”

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Black Words, Black Voices, Black Magic, Black Matters

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Hispanic Center of the Lehigh Valley Fights Pandemic: An Interview with Victoria Montero

Bethlehem Area Public Library Offers Workshops for Residents in Writing Memoir

Arts & CultureHannah ProvostJune 23, 20200

Despite my fear of sharing personal stories, Waxler created a space where vulnerability was not something to be feared, but something to be explored with kindness toward one’s self and other participants…

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Women of Bethlehem Steel Series: Spotlight on Esther Lee by Hannah Provost

Local HistoryHannah ProvostJune 22, 20201

Southsider’s series focused on the Women of Bethlehem Steel Collection in the Beyond Steel Archives gives our readers the opportunity to explore the stories of women in our community who worked in the steel industry. Each article in the series will feature an introduction to one oral history, a link that allows our readers to…

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Community VoicesSara McCartneyJune 10, 20200

Reflections on Civic Life and the Pandemic: Sara McCartney on Gratitude

After leaving Lehigh University due to the pandemic, I have been spending my quarantine in an affluent Minneapolis suburb with my…
Community VoicesHannah ProvostJune 9, 20201

Reflections on Civic Life and the Pandemic: Hannah Provost on Environmentalism and Covid-19

Amidst untold deaths, massive shortages of medical supplies, and inequalities in healthcare treatment, two different ways of thinking about nature have…
Community VoicesTom GoldenJune 9, 20201

Reflections on Civic Life and the Pandemic: Tom Golden on Empty Parking Lots and Dive Theaters

I have this fear that the Sayville Theater and many others like it won’t be here on the other side of…
Children use a tablet in a messy bedroom.
Community VoicesKelly AllenJune 5, 20200

Reflections on Civic Life and the Pandemic: Kelly R. Allen on Parenting and Working from Home

For parents and guardians that are able to work remotely from home during Covid-19, we have the added burden of everyday…
Abandoned latex protective glow on a brick street.
Community VoicesRobin LeeJune 5, 20201

Reflections on Civic Life and the Pandemic: Robin Lee on the Impact of Covid-19 on South Bethlehem

The emptiness we witnessed in the streets of South Bethlehem throughout April and May would have been unimaginable to us even…
Arts & CultureSusie PooreApril 28, 20200

Reflecting on the 44th President: Lehigh Welcomes White House Photographer Pete Souza

By the end of Barack Obama’s term as the President of the United States, former chief official White House photographer Pete…
Blithe Spirit
Theater & FilmIvery MarquezApril 28, 20200

Costume Design Sets the Stage
for Noël Coward’s comedy Blithe Spirit

This season Lehigh University’s Department of Theatre presented the famous British play Blithe Spirit, written by Noël Coward. Director Augustine Ripa…
Arts & CultureSusie PooreApril 28, 20200

Remembering Bethlehem Arts During a Pandemic: A Digital Trip to The Banana Factory

I never expected to be finishing my last year at Lehigh from my house in New Hampshire, which is just over…

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