Arts & Culture

The Black History Month celebration at Miller Symphony Hall in Allentown will feature music, an awards ceremony, a fashion show and free samples of African and Caribbean eats.

Richard Thompson, who as a teenager played and sang with Fairport Convention — perhaps behind only Bob Dylan as seminal to the folk-rock genre — will perform at 8 p.m. May 17.

Strut your stuff on the runway at the People’s Ball, a fashion exhibit and runway competition happening at the Banana Factory in May.

The Downtown Bethlehem Association is hosting a St. Patrick's Day-themed cocktail trail on Saturday, March 11.

The city says by reducing the number of sponsored concerts at West Park, programmers will be able to include other bands in more neighborhoods.

Karen Britt is a professor of business at Northampton Community College and the founder of Juneteenth Lehigh Valley.

The proposed Archer Music Hall would be a 31,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art entertainment venue at 935-939 Hamilton St. in Center City Allentown.

The annual Wine & Shine Lehigh Valley program by the Lehigh Valley Wine Trail will run for three weekends in April, allowing people to taste wine or spirits at each of seven locations.

About 900 people dipped into the Delaware River to raise money for the Lehigh Valley's chapter of the Special Olympics.

Professional freestyle football competitors Aguśka Mnich and Patrick Bäurer came to the Lehigh Valley.

The new exhibits feature artwork by well-known creatives and former residents of the New Arts Program, plus pieces by local artists Rain Black and Mallory Zondag.

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers tribute band Damn the Torpedoes will perform Friday, Jan. 17, at Musikfest Cafe at ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks in Bethlehem.

A top-priced $99 ticket for country star Darius Rucker at Musikfest on Aug. 3 normally would come with a $10 service fee, a $8.50 Musikfest venue fee and a $1 ticket vendor fee. So normally, you'd pay $19.50 in fees (a 19.7% upcharge) per ticket. But not today.

There's plenty to see, and eat, at the PA Farm Show in Harrisburg. Check out our reviews.

The fledgling cultural center on Church Road in Martins Creek is at the former Good Shepherd Church, built in 1864. The center offers monthly lunches for seniors, free classes for children, monthly movie nights, book clubs and gardening.

The 109th PA Farm Show is in full swing and continues through Saturday in Harrisburg. Find out how Lehigh Valley competitors placed in the Family Living and Commodities competitions.

Ahead of the Civic Theatre's staging of "Jesus Christ Superstar," Ted Neeley, star of the 1973 film, will visit Allentown for a special appearance.

The Lehigh Valley Arts and Culture Alliance is offering grants to individual artists and nonprofits to help revamp parts of downtown Allentown. LVACA also seeks artists to paint a mural on the Spiral parking garage on Linden St.

ArtsQuest's annual celebration of Three Kings Day brought hundreds of families to SteelStacks Sunday. The festivities celebrate not only the holiday, but the cultures that observe it.

In the last year and a half, Allentown School District spent more than $1.4 million on new instruments and hired 34 educators to teach the related arts, which include band, choir and orchestra, among others.

The Three Kings celebration at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks will feature a children's story time, distribution of toys, and an appearance by Einstein the camel.

Operators of The Archer Music Hall — Live Nation — very soon should be announcing the downtown Allentown venue's first shows, especially with February pegged as the opening month.