During last Friday’s First Friday Scranton, many local art lovers received their introduction to a newly opened downtown artspace, the ArtWorks Gallery at 503 Lackawanna Ave. Artworks is a community art center with an exhibition space, art studio and multi-purpose room. The gallery is “dedicated to helping individuals explore their creative potential and expand their horizons” and plans to offer art...

Support Scranton’s own professional theater company tomorrow with a piano, lute and harp concert to benefit the Electric Theater Company. “Piano & Lute (and Harp): A celebration of strings, struck and plucked” will feature Patricia E. Dunleavy on piano and Giselle Pedraza on lute and harp performing contemporary music from Cuba, Russia, and the United States. It’s the final benefit performance...

You might have noticed the downtown area looking just a bit shinier recently thanks to Scranton Tomorrow‘s Downtown Main Street City Pride Clean-Up initiative. Organized by Scranton Tomorrow, the Scranton Business Alliance, Main Street Initiative committees, downtown employees and volunteers, the City Pride Clean-Up project began yesterday and runs through May 20. Businesses are asked to help plant flowers in front...