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‘New Yorker’ cartoonist launches residencies

A new gem is popping up in Williamsport. Emily Flake, a cartoonist and writer for the New Yorker, is bringing about a new type of residency. The purpose of this establishment is to provide female creators with a space to work nonstop on writing projects, focusing specifically on humor related projects. Creators can produce anything such as stand-up routines, satire pieces, screenplays, comics and novels with a humor-based genre. Flake’s passion for being a writer and cartoonist stemmed from a very early age. Growing up, she was always drawing and writing, but when being an actress ...

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Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble reveals plans

BLOOMSBURG — The acclaimed professional theatre group returns to the friendly confines of the Alvina Krause Theatre for its 2021-22 season. After a year of a “forced intermission” caused by the COVID-19 virus, the downtown Bloomsburg theatre stage will again light up for the recently announced productions to be mounted by the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble. After noting that the regional group ventured to a couple of outside venues recently, its’ Managing Director Jon White Spunner welcomes BTE patrons back inside the theatre, for the upcoming season’s attractions: ...

Ways Garden Art Show to feature more than 20 artists

The 64th Annual Ways Garden Art Show is coming back larger than ever after last year’s pandemic cancellation, according to Deb Trate, longtime member of the Bald Eagle Arts League and Ways Garden Art Show Planning Committee. “This year we have more exhibitors, 23 registered exhibitors ...

Festival to share bluegrass music

The Smoked Country Jam Bluegrass Festival will open its gates June 16. According to a news release, organizers are ready to welcome music lovers, young and old to the 17th annual event, billed as the Pennsylvania Wild’s premier bluegrass festival at the Quiet Oaks Campground near Route 144 and the village of Cross Fork. From June 17 to 19, Smoked Country Jam will present 22 national and regional performers playing over 40 hours of music during the 3-day music festival. Two highly award winning performers will headline this year’s festival. Traveling from western North Carolina ...

Acting, music, cinematography all excellent in ‘Quiet Place Part II’

I guess it’s fitting that a film with “place” in its title proves the famous real-estate mantra “Location, location, location!” “A Quiet Place Part II,” long-delayed sequel to the 2018 horror hit, features one visually arresting locale after another — from abandoned railcars and tunnels to sunset beaches, crumbling factories, sprawling bridges and spooky, spot-lit nighttime marinas. But that’s only one factor that makes this follow-up even better than its predecessor. “Part II” manages to be both a prequel and a sequel, opening with back-story on the invasion ...