Did a few of you go over to visit Vince and get a shine? Even cooler than advertised, heyna? (www.youtube.com heynabonics) Today I want to take you to Mackrell’s Barbershop in the Medical Arts Building @ 329 North Washington Avenue in Downtown Scranton. You can’t miss the barberpole spinning out front and you can’t beat this place. Mark Mackrell is the owner, and aside from being a misguided Notre Dame...

I like the boutiques, the coffee shops, the 1st Medical School in the US since Kennedy was President, the Office fame, the Scranton Enterprise Center, and all of that Electric City Renaissance jazz. But I love the throwbacks hidden in the downtown. Coming from Factoryville (Home of Christy Mathewson; damn straight) Scranton is the big city and I moved here after I returned from a year of military service in ’03....

2007 seemed a subpar year for rock music and America in general, but in the words of Kiss, “everybody’s got a reason to live” and the following 9 CD’s (one reporter’s opinion, as always) were as good a reason as any this year… save for the fact that death still blows. So, without further ado, entertaining us on the road from here to the great reality show in the sky: 9. Maritime- Heresy...

At long last, the January issue is available for download. Just click on the link and download the pdf.

When you head anywhere to visit, what do you look for? Lodging, FOOD, and then entertainment. So we have a couple of great hotels, we have beaucoup art galleries and six billion bars, but where can one eat? Who can pull dollars away from the chains? In my estimation here are six newer places that draw people to the city. The Sambuca Grill on the 2oo block of Penn Avenue. Dim, intimate, and a different menu. Best damn...

When it comes to ultra-prolific singer/songwriters (Ryan Adams, Robert Pollard, etc.), a frequent charge leveled by critics is that they need an editor- someone to help them determine which of their myriad songs should go on the album of the moment and what should be left behind. One man who seems to be exempt from this seldom-used-yet-somewhat-stinging criticism is Neil Young. For close to forty years, Weird Uncle Neil’s...