First Friday Scranton will take a month off in January. And though there won’t be an art walk on the first Friday in January, the group is planning a First Friday Mixer, instead, on Thursday, Jan. 15, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. The first ever First Friday Mixer will be held at the Radisson Lackawanna Hotel with hors d’oevures and a cash bar. It will be a great opportunity to mingle with local artists, art lovers...

Northeastern Pennsylvania writers and readers might not realize that Keystone College owns its own small publishing company, Nightshade Press. On Thursday, Oct. 30, at 6:30 p.m., Keystone will host a poetry reading by four Nightshade-published poets in Evans Hall at the school’s Hibbard Campus Center. Keep Reading

Help kick off the sixth annual Interdependence Day celebration in Northeastern Pennsylvania with the Hexagon Project on Friday, Sept. 5, at 6 p.m. at the MAC Gallery, Diversified Information Technologies, 123 Wyoming Ave., Scranton. Keep Reading

Summer’s nearly over and, with that, students will soon be arriving at our local colleges to begin or continue their higher education. We’ve compiled a list of some online resources new and returning students will need to make the most of campus life in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Today, we’ll focus just on the University of Scranton, Marywood University, Lackawanna College and Keystone College with additional schools...

Don’t forget that the second annual The Gathering: A Literary Conference for Readers, Writers and Thinkers begins Thursday at Keystone College, La Plume, featuring some of the most talented authors and poets in the nation. The conference will run through Sunday. Keep Reading

The Greater Scranton area’s literary community should be marking its calendars for the second annual The Gathering: A Literary Conference for Readers, Writers and Thinkers to be held at Keystone College, La Plume, on August 7-10. The theme for this year’s event will be “Setting the Table: Imagination and the Metaphorical and Literal Properties of Food.” Attendees, together with a group of the most talented...