Rich Howells

EXCLUSIVE: Video and stream/download of acoustic cover of Weezer’s ‘The World Has Turned and Left Me Here’ by Ed Cuozzo and Dan Rosler

EXCLUSIVE: Video and stream/download of acoustic cover of Weezer’s ‘The World Has Turned and Left Me Here’ by Ed Cuozzo and Dan Rosler

Ed Cuozzo of A Social State and Dan Rosler of A Fire With Friends and Esta Coda were guests on the NEPA Scene Podcast on Feb. 2, so while we had them in The Stude at TwentyFiveEight Studios in Scranton, we asked them to play a few acoustic songs exclusively for us. Rosler played “Cat […]

 Rich Howells

EXCLUSIVE: Video and stream/download of live acoustic version of ‘Cat Sitting LA’ by Dan Rosler

EXCLUSIVE: Video and stream/download of live acoustic version of ‘Cat Sitting LA’ by Dan Rosler

Ed Cuozzo of A Social State and Dan Rosler of A Fire With Friends and Esta Coda were guests on the NEPA Scene Podcast on Feb. 2, so while we had them in The Stude at TwentyFiveEight Studios in Scranton, we asked them to play a few acoustic songs exclusively for us. Rosler played “Cat […]

 Rich Howells

EXCLUSIVE: Video and stream/download of live acoustic version of ‘Dizzy’ by Ed Cuozzo

EXCLUSIVE: Video and stream/download of live acoustic version of ‘Dizzy’ by Ed Cuozzo

Ed Cuozzo of A Social State and Dan Rosler of A Fire With Friends and Esta Coda were guests on the NEPA Scene Podcast on Feb. 2, so while we had them in The Stude at TwentyFiveEight Studios in Scranton, we asked them to play a few acoustic songs exclusively for us. Rosler played “Cat […]

 NEPA Scene Staff

Scranton Fringe Festival opens artist applications for inaugural October event

Scranton Fringe Festival opens artist applications for inaugural October event

The Scranton Fringe Festival has opened artist applications today for its first-ever event to be held Oct. 1-4, giving local artists of all kinds a brand new platform to express themselves that is unique to the area. Applications can be found on the festival’s website and will close on April 10. There are no application […]

 NEPA Scene Staff

Steamtown NHS presents ‘A Cool Look at the Ice Industry,’ starting Feb. 7 in Scranton

Steamtown NHS presents ‘A Cool Look at the Ice Industry,’ starting Feb. 7 in Scranton

From a press release: To celebrate winter and the tradition of ice harvesting in the Pocono Mountains, including the 22nd annual Tobyhanna Ice Harvest on Mill Pond No. 1, the Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton will feature an exhibit entitled “A Cool Look at the Ice Industry.” Through historic artifacts and images from local […]

 Rich Howells

PHOTOS: Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ by REV Theatre Company at the Scranton Cultural Center, 01/30/15

PHOTOS: Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ by REV Theatre Company at the Scranton Cultural Center, 01/30/15

The Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple partnered with REV Theatre Company to create “Living Shakespeare” in the SCC’s Shopland Hall, the first production in the planned series being “Hamlet” on Friday, Jan. 30 and Saturday, Jan. 31. Directed by Rosey Hay, the production featured actors from New York City, Philadelphia, and Scranton, with […]

 Rich Howells

PosiPress Project aims to make NEPA news a little more optimistic

PosiPress Project aims to make NEPA news a little more optimistic

Northeastern Pennsylvania can be a great place to live, work, and enjoy quality entertainment, but it doesn’t always seem that way with all the negative news that the local and national media tends to focus on. The PosiPress Project is looking to change that, but it requires community involvement to work. Gerard Durling, a Kingston […]

 Brittany Boote

PHOTOS: Cabinet at Higher Ground in Vermont, 01/31/15

PHOTOS: Cabinet at Higher Ground in Vermont, 01/31/15

Northeastern Pennsylvania bluegrass band Cabinet finished up their Mid-Winter Tour on a high note at Higher Ground in South Burlington, Vermont on Saturday, Jan. 31. Calling the venue “one of our favorite spots in the US of A for sure” on their Facebook page, it may have been a long drive home for the homegrown […]

 Michelle Beck

PHOTOS: Vice Grip, Final Descent, Nothing Left, and Being, 01/31/15

PHOTOS: Vice Grip, Final Descent, Nothing Left, and Being, 01/31/15

For a show billed as “Escape from NEPA,” four young bands and their fans packed into the small space in Embassy Vinyl in downtown Scranton for a big night of punk, hardcore, and powerviolence on Saturday, Jan. 31. Being, Final Descent, Nothing Left, and Vice Grip tore things up and inspired plenty of sing-alongs. Unfortunately, […]

 NEPA Scene Staff

Iron Reels to host open indie film screening and workshop at TwentyFiveEight Studios in Scranton on Feb. 6

Iron Reels, Scranton’s repository for local underground film, is hosting an open film screening and workshop for Northeastern Pennsylvania filmmakers and movie fans on Friday, Feb. 6 at 8 p.m. at TwentyFiveEight Studios in Scranton. A description of the event is below: In the same fashion as an open mic, an open screening allows an […]