Arts & Culture

Political writer Bhaskar Sunkara and British Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid are among the authors taking part in the Center for Ethics spring series.

An artist and musician, Phoebe Legere will perform new music inspired by her Native American roots at Arthaus on Thursday, March 16.

Hilgert is one of 50 women to be honored with an "Above & Beyond Women Award."

Keith Sweat, a leading force in the New Jack Swing movement, will headline the main Steel Stage at the massive music festival in downtown and South Side Bethlehem at 7 p.m. Aug. 8.

ArtsQuest is using the Bethlehem Visitor Center to present comedy shows. And it plans on a new dedicated comedy club at the new Banana Factory.

The three-day festival features a fiddle competition, Irish dancing, whiskey tastings and Guinness pours.

The YMCA hosts its 15th annual rite-of-spring event for partiers on a budget.

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The free expo set for Saturday will showcase music, dance, martial arts and more from young artists living in the Lehigh Valley.

Grammy Award-winning soft rock group Train, known for the hits "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)," "Hey Soul Sister" and "Drive By," will headline the main stage on the final night of Bethlehem's Musikfest festival in August, it was announced Monday.

With a recent album, "Anthem," and a new EP, "When the Anarchy's Been Restored," set to be released, Flogging Molly will play Wind Creek Event Center on Saturday, Feb. 25.

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.

Fountain Hill, East Penn, Northampton and other restaurant weeks look to bring together various local restaurants and attract people to locally owned and operated businesses

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.

Lehigh University Professor Scott Gordon will give a presentation at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Sigal Museum in Easton. It will focus on a 1780 register of enslaved people in Northampton County.

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.

If you're heading out the door a little early on Tuesday to find some donut deals, you’re likely to head to some familiar spots. Here's where fastnachts are likely to be flying off the shelves.

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.

In a community revitalization effort from a local community coalition, Fountain Hill is getting its very own restaurant week.