The December First Friday, scheduled for Friday, Dec. 4, will cap a great year for local art and music with 25 downtown business participating in this month’s art walk. Several venues will host holiday-themed displays including a Children’s Holiday Art Show at The Electric City Tattoo Gallery, 620 Spruce St., with children’s art from the Howard Gardner School for Discovery; a holiday exhibit and music by The...

The powerful and moving “Letters to Sala” exhibition recently opened at the University of Scranton and I encourage all of Northeastern Pennsylvania to see it while it’s in our area. Based on a young woman’s life in Nazi labor camps, the exhibition compiles materials from the Sala Garncarz Kirschner Collection of the Dorot Jewish Division of The New York Public Library. The University of Scranton...