On the day after Thanksgiving in the fall of 2023, staff from Our West Bayfront, alongside volunteers from the neighborhood, ...

4 / 5 Stars For America's 250th anniversary, Long Beach rapper Vince Staples serves up a piece of absurdist pie on Cry Baby. On the album's seventh track, Staples begins his first verse by proclaiming ...

Dr. Ferki Ferati has brought a former President of the United States to Erie. Then he brought another one. He has brought Nobel laureates and some of the most consequential minds of our moment to a ...

The local chapter is still called Flagship City Chorus and is made up of women who are grouped by voice into barbershop and a ...

It's 1962 and after a spot opens up on her favorite local teenage dance show, The Corny Collins Show, Tracy Turnblad is ...

There are few artists who have a resume like Harry Connick Jr. Singer, songwriter, actor (both on stage and screen), and ...

The Erie Reader Book Club will be reading and discussing Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro in conjunction with the Erie ...

In a charming prelude to Discover Presque Isle, which opens on July 20, the first-ever Piping Plover Fest will be celebrated ...

The Reader Beat aims to cover city and county council meetings as well as other important government and community-related meetings. The following is a summary of each meeting for the month of June.

"These are the times that try men's souls." That famed line was penned by Thomas Paine in The American Crisis No. 1, written in December of 1776, a few months after the Declaration of Independence and ...

Aliens have long held significant meaning in the films of Steven Spielberg. Whether they represented an incomprehensible force of spiritual majesty (Close Encounters), the joy and wonder of childhood ...

Brooke Surgener has some plans this month and she'd like you to join her in celebrating her new EP and birthday in a big way at the Kings Rook Club. Surgener (Erie's 40 Under 40 Class of 2014) says ...