John J. Moser
News DirectorI’m deputy director for news at LehighValleyNews.com and have been a reporter and editor at newspapers in Pennsylvania and North Carolina for nearly 40 years. I spent more than 30 years at The Morning Call in Allentown as a reporter, copy editor and editor, and for 12 years was its music critic and entertainment writer. I’ve captured more than two dozen statewide and national awards for writing and editing, and was part of a team of reporters in North Carolina that was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Contact me at JohnM@lehighvalleynews.com or 610-984-8183.
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The Idobi Radio Summer School Tour will undertake its "junior" (as in third year of high school) year with performances by five "independent artists and bands on the verge of breaking out," the tour said in a release.
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Allentown Fire Department was dispatched about 10:35 a.m. Sunday to the 200 block of North 17th Street for reports of a house fire, with the possibility of entrapment, a fire department release said.
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Fiesta on Hamilton regresará para tomar Hamilton Street de 1 a 7 p.m. el domingo 17 de mayo, anunció la Cámara de Comercio de Greater Lehigh Valley.
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Steve Earle, best known for his 1998 Top 10 Mainstream Rock hit "Copperhead Road," will perform a show titled "51 Years of Songs & Stories" Friday, Aug. 21, at Musikfest Cafe.
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Let Freedom Sing will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 27, at Allentown’s Coca-Cola Park. The IronPigs also will bring together adult, community and school choirs from the Lehigh Valley and surrounding counties.
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Fiesta on Hamilton will return to take over Hamilton Street from 1 to 7 p.m. Sunday, May 17, the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce announced.
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Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin Holihan announced the decision Wednesday after an investigation by Allentown Police Department and Lehigh County Homicide Task Force.
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Don McLean, whose 1971 song “American Pie” was No. 1 for four weeks and was chosen No. 5 on the RIAA's list of Songs of the Century, will perform at Saturday, May 30.
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Kane Brown, best known for his 11-times-platinum hit "Heaven" and his nine-times-platinum hit “What Ifs” with Lauren Alaina, will perform at Wind Creek Event Center at 8 p.m. April 23, it was just announced.
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You can still get tickets to the show, but as of Sunday morning, just two premium balcony seats remained, and general admission floor tickets were up for resale at a 131% markup.
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Everclear, the Portland, Oregon, band best known for its Alt-chart-topping hits "Santa Monica" and "Everything to Everyone," will perform Thursday, June 18, in Musikfest Cafe.
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Unlike last year, when she won Best Pop Solo Performance for "Espresso," and Best Pop Vocal Album for "Short n' Sweet," Sabrina Carpenter went home empty-handed on Sunday.
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'Shepherding a legacy': New Hotel Bethlehem general manager looks to preserve heritage, promote cityKelly Ronalds officially takes the reins of Historic Hotel Bethlehem today. She sees her role as preserving the legacy of the hotel — and the business.
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Lehigh Valley native Sabrina Carpenter (shown performing at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center in 2024), is nominated in six categories at Sunday's Grammy Awards. She has a chance to tie or break five Grammy records.
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Yunior Peralta-Quintana, 23, of Allentown, was convicted Friday by a Lehigh County Court jury after a four-day trial before Judge Anna-Kristie M. Marks.
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Amazon driver Troy Johnson, 30, of Philadelphia, also was ordered to face court on a felony count of accidents involving death and misdemeanor counts of involuntary manslaughter and recklessly endangering another person.
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Historic Hotel Bethlehem has chosen a new general manager who will be just the second woman to lead the 104-year-old cherished tourism spot and first in more than 40 years.
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Modest Mouse, whose 2007 album “We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank” topped the chart and went gold, will perform at 7 p.m. June 6.
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Toad The Wet Sprocket, who from 1989-97 had eight Top 25 hits on various charts, will perform at 7 p.m. July 12, ArtsQuest announced Monday.
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Yaniel Fermin, de 17 años, fue acusado de homicidio, narcotráfico y posesión ilegal de armas por la muerte de Jeomy Miguel Soto, de 19 años, baleado el jueves en Allentown.
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Alton Brown, who started the Food Network’s “Good Eats” show, will perform An Evening of Alton Brown at 7:30 p.m. April 16, the theater announced. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 30.
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Cameron Whitcomb, whose songs "Medusa," "Options" and "Hundred Mile High" have hit that chart, has been added to the show by country-rock star Hardy at 7 p.m. March 26.