CONCERT REVIEW: Elvis Costello follows the music, not the playbook, in rollicking Bethlehem show
“We’ve been wanting to play the album for you. We never had the discipline before. We don’t now, either,” Elvis Costello told the crowd at Sands Bethlehem Event Center on Sunday, Oct. 23. This performance was supposed to be of Costello’s 1982 album “Imperial Bedroom,” but in the era of bands playing classic albums in […]
TURN TO CHANNEL 3: The original NES ‘Castlevania’ still slays almost 30 years later
I just wanted to take a second here and thank editor Rich Howells and NEPA Scene for allowing me to do this for two years now. Turn to Channel 3 has been a column I have done for over five years now, but only in the last two did I truly feel at home where […]
MASSIVE BEER REVIEWS: Mago Tago Mango IPA by Tired Hands Brewing Company
Beer: Mago Tago Brewery: Tired Hands Brewing Company Style: IPA Age: 2016 ABV: 7.80% We’ve got some fresh, hopped-up beer from those fine folks over at Tired Hands in Ardmore near Philadelphia on today’s MBR. This is their Mago Tago IPA, a Simcoe dry hopped IPA rested on mangos. In today’s beer-crazy world, more specifically […]
TURN TO CHANNEL 3: Rare Atari 2600 ‘Halloween’ game not worth hunting down as Michael would
One of the most fun and interesting aspects of running a video game store is having those conversations with customers about games that have ascended to these levels of popularity and expense among collectors that their legend has grown further than the actual fandom behind the game’s initial run. This often leads to a game […]
CONCERT REVIEW: Anything but ‘Plain,’ John Mellencamp captivates sold-out Wilkes-Barre crowd
From the moment he strolled out on stage with his Fender Telecaster until the final notes of his last song 95 minutes later, John Mellencamp had the sold-out crowd at the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts in Wilkes-Barre on Friday, Oct. 14 in the palm of his hand. Sometimes they sang along, sometimes […]
MASSIVE BEER REVIEWS: Electric Velvet Imperial Latte Stout by Søle Artisan Ales
Beer: Electric Velvet Brewery: Søle Artisan Ales Style: Imperial Milk Stout with Coffee Age: 2016 ABV: 10.00% Who doesn’t want to watch a 40-year-old self-proclaimed know-it-all yammering into a microphone about a local coffee stout for almost a quarter of an hour? I know I don’t, but maybe you do! So today, we give you […]
CONCERT REVIEW: Boz Scaggs plays across the ages in spellbinding Wilkes-Barre performance
Boz Scaggs brought his patented blend of blue-eyed soul, rock, blues, and jazz to the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts in Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday, Oct. 12. The now 72-year-old singer/songwriter is aging gracefully, his voice still silky smooth and his guitar playing better than you might have remembered. Backed by a fine six-piece […]
TURN TO CHANNEL 3: NES gem ‘Monster Party’ weirder and scarier than other Nintendo games
Sometimes in this crazy world of retro games, you come across a game that has a story that is probably greater than the game itself and, yet, these stories, these rumors that turn into truth, only further enhance the aura behind it. Today’s topic is a perfect example of this, of people digging for the […]
MASSIVE BEER REVIEWS: Moonglow Weizenbock by Victory Brewing Company
Beer: Moonglow Brewery: Victory Brewing Company Style: Weizenbock Age: 2016 ABV: 8.70% I reviewed this sucker a while ago, but it had a couple of years on it, so we’re doing a little revisiting today courtesy of Victory Brewing in Downingtown near Philadelphia with this freshie version of their Moonglow Weizenbock! Massive Beer Reviews is […]
TURN TO CHANNEL 3: ‘Haunting Starring Polterguy’ is a scarily tedious but unique Sega game
October is here, so that means we’re going to talk about some games that either scare people or at least remind them of things like Halloween and the horror genre of yore. Heck, I’ll even give the month a title as generic as candy corn. Let’s call it Turn to Channel 3’s “October Gaming Spooktacular!” […]
