The Weekender 03-13-2013

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“Watch episodes of ‘Petticoat Junction’ and the original ‘Hawaii Five-O.’”

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“Tylenol, a Coke, and a greasy cheeseburger. And then just drinking again.”

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“Curl up in a corner of my house regretting my life choices and dry heaving until I feel better.”

Tell @wkdr how you cure your Parade Day hangover.

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You guys are troopers.

Seriously, how are you still awake after all that drinking last weekend at Scranton’s parade?

If you’re like me, you had your two beers, scored some Coney Island Texas wieners, and called it a day, but I know some people, including some co-workers, who partied hard and are ready for more – it’s a good thing NEPA is pacing itself this time.

The Wilkes-Barre St. Patrick’s Day Parade is scheduled for the following Saturday this year, still falling before Paddy’s Day but giving Scrantonians some breathing room. If you’re just looking for some family-friendly

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entertainment, though, the city will provide that, too – check out our full coverage of both sides on pages 35, 38, and 40, along with our local connection to New York City’s parade on page 41.

Indeed, there are many facets of Irish culture that don’t involve booze, but what kind of journalists would we be if we didn’t provide you with both sides of the story?

We’d just be a bunch of drunks, and whoever heard of a good alcoholic writer?

Oh, wait…

-Rich Howells, Weekender Editor

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“This was the first true international record we received,” lead vocalist Brent Smith told NME Magazine, “and I say received because it really is an honor and it’s a gift and it really is a privilege to get an opportunity from your record label to be released internationally.”

The quartet is currently on tour and will come to the Mohegan Sun Arena (225 Highland Boulevard) on April 30 with special guests Bush and Airborne.

Tickets for the show go on sale March 16 at 10 a.m. and can be purchased at ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster outlets, and charge by phone at 800.745.3000.

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…can you vote for the February “Show Us Some Skin”? Due to some website glitches recently, we’ve been unable to post the poll up, but we’re up and running again, so feel free to vote for your favorite tattoo at theweekender.com. Will it be the flying pig, sweet skull, or lifelike Labrador? Only you can decide, and we thank you for your patience in waiting for the voting process. Voting will continue until March 18.

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…will you be able to catch The Curse of Sorrow, Graces Downfall, and Trapt all in one place? Tonight, so hurry up and clear that calendar!

The three hard rocking groups are playing a show at Brews Brothers West (75 Main St., Luzerne) at 6 p.m.

Tickets are $17.60 at ticketmaster. com and can also be purchased at the door.

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speak and see POETIC Arts Seen Gallery (21 Public Square, WilkeS-barre) • Open mic Of all fOrms Of pOetry and spOken wOrd: march 15, 7:30-8:30 p.m.

Dietrich Theater (60 e. tiOga st., tunkhannOck: 570.996.1500) • writing yOur hat Off: creative writing fOr kids: ages 10-16. march 19, 26, 4-5:30 p.m.

Duffy’s Coffee House (831 s. state st., clarks summit ) • BOOk reading and signing By alisOn treat, “One traveler:” march 16, 4-6 p.m.

Everhart Museum (1901 mulBerry st., scrantOn, pa, 570.346.7186, www.everhart-museum.

Org) • everhart reads BOOk cluB: march 21, “BlOOdwOrk: a tale Of medicine & murder in the scientific revOlutiOn. tO register call 570.346.7186.

King’s College (133 nOrth river st., wilkes-Barre, 570.208.5957 Or kings.edu) • campiOn literary sOciety writing wOrkshOp: march 18, 7 p.m., sheehyfarmer campus center. free and Open tO the puBlic. infO: 570.208.5900, ext. 5487.

Library Express (2nd flOOr, mall at steamtOwn, 570.558.1670, faceBOOk.cOm/liBraryexpress) friends Of the scrantOn puBlic liBrary used BOOk sale: march 12-17. fOr infO call tina, 570.348.3000 Or the liBrary express.

New Visions Studio & Gallery (201 vine st., scrantOn, www.newvisiOnstudiO.cOm, 570.878.3970) • writers shOwcase: march 30, 7 p.m. featuring stantOn hancOck, laurel radzieski, shelBy fisk, chris campiOn, heather m. davis and andrea mcguigan.

Pittston Memorial Library (47 BrOad st., 570.654.9565, pitmemliB@cOmcast.net) • craft cluB: march 18, 6 p.m.

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• friends meeting: march 28, 6:30 p.m.

The Vintage Theater (326 spruce st., scrantOn, infO@ scrantOnsvintagetheater.cOm) • Open micrOphOne pOetry: march 21, 8:30 p.m.

VISUAL AFA Gallery (514 lackawanna ave., scrantOn: 570.969.1040 Or artistsfOrart.Org) gallery hOurs thurs.-sat., 12-5 p.m.

• “visiOns Of music,” n exhiBitiOn Of phOtOgraphs By allisOn murphy and dinO perrucci and an exhiBit frOm david green, lOcal sculptOr and artist: BOth run march 1-30. Opening receptiOn march 1, 6-9 p.m.

• here we are in spain cOmedy grOup presents “the wha happened?:” march 16, 8 p.m. $7; $5, with valid student id.

• keystOne cOllege seniOr exhiBitiOn: april 4-27. Opening receptiOn april 4, 6-9 p.m.

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ArtWorks Gallery (502 lackawanna ave., scrantOn. 570.207.1815, artwOrksnepa.cOm) gallery hOurs: tues.-fri., 11 a.m.-5 p.m., sat., nOOn-3 p.m., Or By appOintment.

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• keystOne cOllege seniOr exhiBitiOn: april 4-27. Opening receptiOn april 4, 6-9 p.m.

B & B Art Gallery (222 nOrthern Blvd., s. aBingtOn tOwnship) • third friday exhiBit featuring mark ciOcca, “architectural gems:” Opening receptiOn march 15, 5-8 p.m. artist talk march 24, 2 p.m.

The Butternut Gallery & Second Story Books (204 church st, mOntrOse, 570.278.4011, Butternutgallery.cOm). gallery hOurs: wed.-sat., 11a.m.-5 p.m., sun., 12 p.m.-4 p.m.

• american kOtz family exhiBit Converge Gallery (140 w. fOurth st., williamspOrt, 570.435.7080, cOnvergegallery.cOm) • “suspended in time,” featuring traditiOnal, landscape and cityscape paintings with a twist: thrOugh april 27.

Everhart Museum (1901 mulBerry st., scrantOn, pa, 570.346.7186, www.everhart-museum.

Org) admissiOn $5 adults; $3 students/ seniOrs; $2 children 6-12; memBers free.

• “the BlOOd is the life: vampires in art & nature:” thrOugh July 2.

• “what’s in the clOud? Bats On the atlantic cOast:” On display thrOugh July 2.

• drawcOrps dracula: march 13, 6-8 p.m. create a live mural inspired By vampires and dress as yOur favOrite creature Of the night. $5, museum memBers; $10, nOn-memBers. ages 18 and up. pre-registratiOn and payment required.

• pysanky wOrkshOp: march 20, 6-8 p.m. $25, museum memBers; $30, nOnmemBers. ages 16 and up, pre-registratiOn and payment required.

• vampires at the afa gallery, shOwing Of the film ‘vampyr:’ march 27, 6-8 p.m. ages 18 and up.

Hazleton Art League (225 e. BrOad st., hazletOn, hazletOnartleague.Org) • “wOman’s wOrk:” thrOugh march 17. Opening receptiOn march 2, 6-8 p.m.

• “kellesimOne waits: antithesis:” Opening receptiOn march 24, 406 p.m. march 24-april 28. talk By waits march 25, 9:45 a.m., BrOOks theatre.

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album reviews Crock Pot cook up crowd-pleasing EP

Stereotypes and music have always seemed to go hand in hand; much of the time, the listener’s personality goes hand in hand with their favorite genre.

This used to almost always be the case, but now with iPods and other means of listening to a lot of music very quickly, a listener’s shuffle could go from Jimi Hendrix to The Ramones to The Lumineers.

This seems to be the case with the young members of Scrantonbased Crock Pot Abduction. Each song has a different flavor from genres all of across the board,

making their debut EP, “Slow Dance for Teens,” pleasing to almost any listener.

Crock Pot Abduction – Connor Langan (bass and vocals), Erik Miller (drums), Jake Decker (guitar and vocals), PJ Cimino (guitar), Dominic Ludovici (guitar) – open with “Jurassic Sweat.” It has raspy, punk-like lyrics similar to a Green Day tune with a guitar and bass licks that are more blues than anything. It quickly displays the diverse influences of the band and how they are able to make them all come together.

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Replacements reunite for good cause This isn’t quite the Replacements reunion fans of the Minneapolis godfathers of alt-rock had been waiting for. The band, which quietly faded away around 1991 after a string of albums basically consisting of singer/guitarist Paul Westerberg solo material, lay dormant for years despite new generations discovering the underground garage punk genius of “The ‘Mats’” heyday.

Finger” and its follow-up, “Configuring,” are unique. There are many layers: classic rock guitar riffs, modern rock lyrics, and jam band-like tempo changes.

The standout track comes in Wonderdog cover “Winter Solstice.” It starts with a gritty guitar riff that builds into a fast beat held down Langan and Miller. The solo sounds like something Slash would write, and the raw talent and musicianship displayed during the breakdown shows the huge potential for this group moving forward.

The EP ends with the title track, which changes pace and slows down a bit, and a “hidden” acoustic version of the opening track.

As a debut album, these local kids could not have done a better job. They’ve used their many influences to their advantage and have found a way to add in elements to capture almost any listener’s attention.

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Fast forward to 2012, when former Replacements guitarist Slim Dunlap suffered a debilitating stroke. Original members Westerberg, bassist Tommy Stinson, and drummer Chris Mars came together to record these songs as a fundraiser for their friend, who most likely will need terminal at-home care.

Despite the somber impetus for recording a new music together, fans have much cause to love this set. The five-song EP is an all-covers affair in the typical, frayed, indie-agitation fashion that The Replacements embodied. Some of Slim Dunlap’s solo cuts are covered, like a track called “Busted Up” from Slim’s 1993 album “The Old New Me” – the cover here adding a bit more Dr. John-esque, New Orleans piano groove. “Radio Hook Word Hit,” from Dunlap’s 1996 Jayhawks/Son Volt-sounding twang opus “Times Like This,” is given a blistering, noisy squelch.

Gordon Lightfoot’s “I’m Not Sayin’” is more typical of Westerberg’s solo output, landing somewhere among his mid-1990’s “Eventually” period. Hank Williams’ “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” from the Broadway musical “Gypsy,” is the trademark hard left turn we’ve come to expect from the boys.

Whether this EP leads to a more substantial reunion is anyone’s guess, but five new tracks of Replacements snotnerve are more than acceptable, served up with a heavy tip of the hat to an old friend.

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“The Next Day” doesn’t reinvent Bowie, nor does it find him adopting a specific character as he has on many of his classics; rather, it recasts and combines many of the things we’ve heard him do in the past — the urgency of “China Girl” in “The Stars (Are Out Tonight),” his glam-rock roots in “Valentine’s Day,” the late ’70s Robert Fripp collaborations in “If You Can See Me.” There are a few sobering reflections on days gone by and ultimate mortality David Bowie — including the first single, “Where Are ‘The Next Day’ We Now?” and the album-closing couplet of “You Feel So Lonely You Could Die” and “Heat” — and “I’d Rather Be High” Rating W W W W V turns one soldier’s thoughts into an anti-war paean. But the majority of “The Next Day” finds Bowie and company in top gear, blazing through the title track, the prog-flavored “Love Is Lost,” the grooving “Boss of Me,” the buoyant When David Bowie announces “Here “Dancing Out in Space” and “How Does I am, not quite dying” at the start of his the Grass Grow?” first album in a decade, he means it. At a There’s no shortage of edgy sonics and point when we didn’t expect to hear from textural twists on all 14 tracks here, but the veteran, chameleon-like rock auteur those enhance more than they challenge. at all, we get one of the best albums of It took a while for this “Day” to come; his career, an energized, wide-ranging here’s hoping what’s next will arrive ride that stirs together familiar touchsooner than that. stones — including personnel such as -Gary Graff, The Oakland Press W co-producer Tony Visconti and long-term

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Sucker prepares sweet tunes, good times

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By Rich Howells Weekender Editor

The three members of Sucker stressed two things in a recent phone interview with The Weekender – their love of partying and their dislike for wearing clothing.

Both of these points are essential to understanding the wild rock ‘n’ roll music of vocalist/ bassist Candi Vee, guitarist Janson Harris, and drummer Timmy Prime. Each provided a laundry list of bands they played in previously or currently, but none seem to be as much of a passion project as Sucker is.

“I spent a lot of time partying, and most of (the music is) about that. I don’t like to talk about anything too serious. I like to go out and have a good time, and a lot of the stuff that I listen to is just about going out and having a good time,” Vee, 25, explained.

“I didn’t want people sobbing into their beers or thinking about the meaning of life while they were out at the bar. That’s where I drew a lot of my inspiration from, just playing in bars, so I wanted it to be something that I would want to hear, something that reflected the kind of stuff that I like to get drunk and dance to.”

Vee always wanted to play in an original band, forming the Scranton-based group at the end of 2009, but she couldn’t make a lineup stick until Harris, 33, joined six months later, writing and recording with a drum machine in Harris’ room until Prime, 32, was on board. “(Writing) was really simple to be honest with you, now that I think about it… She would have the bass line or I would have the guitar line. It’s weird because either way, no matter who has what, we both have the other,” Harris noted. “I wake up and I say, ‘I want this song to be rockin.’”

“That’s pretty much the criteria,” Vee agreed. “You have to be able to dance to it.”

“Candi has an ‘80s kind of sensibility, and Jansen has a range of different things that he can do and different styles. We have surfy parts in songs and bluesy songs and stuff, so everyone has their own distinct style, and

Courtesy Photo This Scranton-based group loves to party - sometimes naked.

when you put all three of those together, I think what we come up with is the sound that we have. I don’t think it’s like we plan it or anything,” Prime added.

Sucker’s “On My Love” EP captures this diverse spontaneity well, though the trio is even more excited to release their full-length, 13-track album on March 15 during a CD release party at Diane’s Deli & Internet Café (206 S Main St, Pittston) with 3 to Breathe, The Curse of Sorrow, and Walter Prez & the Awesome. Merchandise will also be available for the first time, but what matters to them most is putting on a fun, high-energy performance.

“Stage presence is one of the most important things to me, in my opinion. You can be a great musician and I respect that, I love that, but when I see it live, I also want to feel it. I don’t want the guy to just be standing there,” Harris said.

“I practice thrashing around while I play these songs; I’m not even kidding…just so I know I can play this stuff while I’m jumping around.”

“We have a song called ‘Amphetamine Queen.’ We have a box full of tiaras, actually, so we bring one down to every show. We end up crowning some chick, and we tell everybody to buy her free shots,” Vee continued. “I bring a bag of lollipops and I chuck them at the crowd. I try not to knock anybody’s eye out while I’m at it.”

Planning a music video for “Circus” that promises to be full of “hedonism,” they say their live shows are often performed in various stages of undress, so when asked what they have planned for Friday, the answer

seems obvious.

“I got circumcised for the show,” Prime cracked. “It’s not going to help anything at all, but I’m the drummer, so I do my little part.”

After joking about their current lack of clothes, Vee shouts as Prime continues talking.

“Oh my God, you really are f——-g naked!”

“You can’t say we’re naked without us being naked,” Prime retorts. “That’s dishonest.”

This honest talks yields a rare moment of seriousness for the band, which plans to tour over the summer.

“It’s taken Sucker a long time to get to this point. I’ve been waiting a really long time to get the right lineup together and get the right songs written,” Vee said.

“The CD coming out is a big, big step for all of us… I’ve never had a real CD with real stuff, merch and all that, in my life, and I’ve been playing a long time, 18 years,” Harris shared.

“I’ve never been as proud of a CD as I am of this one. It’s kind of special for me because I’m finally in a band again. I’ve decided to take up music again and stop focusing on other things in my life and start focusing on the important stuff that I really want to do,” Prime emphasized.

“So let’s all get messed up and drink and stuff.”

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Paul Thorn’s got a deliciously acerbic song he sings titled “It’s a Great Day to Whup Somebody’s Ass” – seriously, it’s definitely worth a YouTube search. Contained within those three minutes of R.L. Burnside-meets-Hank Courtesy Photo Williams catharsis of everyday, Thorn mini-catastrophes is everything you need to know about the “That’s really cool, because Mississippi-bred artist. when I was a kid, I watched Elvin “There’s usually something Bishop on ‘The Midnight Spenegative going on in all my cial,’” Thorn recalls. “I was sitting songs,” Thorn begins, “but there’s in my living room, eating cereal at also something in the song that midnight, watching Elvin Bishop gives you a way out.” play “Fooled Around and Fell in A triple-threat as guitarist, Love.” Now he’s playing on my writer, and Dixie-honey-dripped album.” vocalist, Thorn will bring his This Southern son had an brand of witty, Southern-edged upbringing ripe for a great song. storytelling to the River Street Thorn’s dad was a Pentecostal Jazz Café this Thursday, March minister; his uncle was a pimp.

14, for an 8 p.m. show.

“These two men helped form Thorn’s currently touring in the way I look at life,” he says. support of his latest effort, a cov“What I got from my dad is how ers album called “What the Hell Is important all people are. The time Goin’ On?” Released on his own I spent with my uncle prepared Perpetual Obscurity label, the me for dealing with people of album is not your typical bluesquestionable nature.” man’s buffet of Howlin’ Wolf or Thorn’s 2010 album, “Pimps a singer/songwriter’s tired and Preachers,” deals with those umpteenth take on Bob shades of light and dark he saw Dylan. growing up. “It’s all good, it’s “I wanted to all come back do an album around,” Thorn Paul Thorn: March 14, 8 p.m., of songs that says of his experiRiver Street Jazz Café (667 N. were good River St., Plains). $15-$20. ences with the two songs, but not men. something Thorn remains that everyone had heard by 15 characteristically unapologetic different artists,” Thorn explains. and rough around the edges when “These are deep cuts, songs by it comes to setting his sights on well-known writers. These are his craft. He speaks of an incident some of their more obscure tunes, when a performance was on the songs that the world has never verge of going off the rails. heard unless they’re a diehard “I have a song about a stripmusic fan.” per who was a Jehovah’s WitThorn’s right. How often have ness called ‘Joanie the Jehovah you heard covers of Buckingham/ Witness Stripper,’” he begins Nicks’ “Don’t Let Me Down with an impish grin. “A guy in the Again” from the pre-Fleetwood audience was offended because Mac duo’s 1973 debut, or Free’s he was a Jehovah’s Witness. He “Walk In My Shadow”? Thorn came up on stage with his chest is particularly fond of a track by all puffed out, shoving me, and I an old-school country maverick cold-cocked him.” The concertnamed Wild Bill Emerson. goer apparently hadn’t known “‘Bull Mountain Bridge’” is Thorn, in a past life, was also a one of his typical songs,” Thorn professional boxer, having once proudly explains. “He was the sparred with Roberto Durán. ultimate storyteller. That song is “I just keep going and these about jealousy, murder, the KKK, things keep falling in my lap like marijuana, adultery, and God. that, you know,” says Thorn.

I’m extra excited because Delbert “They could do a movie about McClinton sang a duet with me my journey, and there are a lot of on this song.” moments I’ve had where I’ve just Also notable on this new album wound up in the strangest places – is the guest slot by slide blues in a good way.” guitar master Elvin Bishop, an Learn more about Thorn online artist who shares Thorn’s knack at paulthorn.com. for tongue-in-cheek Americana.

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Lies keep the local scene together

By Karyn Montigney Weekender Intern

Respect is something that has gotten local rockers, Silhouette Lies, recognition, a strong fanbase, and a good lineup of shows. However, it is not something that has happened overnight. Since 2010, the Scranton musicians have been giving their all to the local music scene in order to make a name for themselves.

The band consists of lead vocalist Nick Van Wagenen, guitarist Raf Pimentel, guitarist Eric Manley, drummer Dave Frable, and bassist Nick Savinelli. Since forming, the group has been around long enough to get their foot in the door; a great strategy and a lot of hard work has earned the band a steady spot in many local music venues and bars.

“It started off by us going to shows first, rather than walking in and saying, ‘Hey I’ve never been here, let me play a show.’

We try to establish rapport with the owners and make new friends with bands,” Pimentel said.

A wide array of musical influences, including ‘80’s power metal, classic rock, rap, and punk, gives the band a sound that is almost unclassifiable. That alone makes them stand out from others and awards them some interesting gigs with bands in genres that range from indie to metal.

“We have a strange thing where because it’s tough to pinpoint what our genre is.

When we play shows a lot of times, we’re either the heaviest band or the lightest band,” Pimentel noted.

Fitting in isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, though, at least not in the Northeast Pa. music scene.

Pimentel talked about how sometimes feeling a bit out

KMFDM still raise eyebrows, rock establishment

of place is normal for bands, especially ones that are new to the scene.

“It’s all about respect. You might have your opinions on someone’s music, but just know that at one time you were that awkward kid on stage making dumb jokes and playing an outof-tune guitar. That’s still me to this day. So in that respect, I think we fit in.”

The band took a hiatus for a few months with the goal of expanding their set list to two hours or more, making them available to play longer shows if ever needed.

Their third show back from their long winter break will be an all-ages show titled “The Ides of March” at The wVintage Theater (326 Spruce St., Scranton), where they will be debuting a new song or two that has never been heard by public ears before.

The Ides of March show will include local bands A Fire with Friends, The Soviet, and Team! (formerly known as Feds), as well as Instead of Sleeping, a group from the Pittsburgh area.

Being good friends with many of the bands playing the show as well as the owners of The Vintage, Silhouette Lies keeps a feeling of unity within the local music scene.

“I think there’s an awesome sense of community between bands themselves,” Pimentel commented.

“It is an uphill battle a lot of the time, but I think we’re all trying our best to bring attention back to local music in Scranton.

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Courtesy Photo It’s no lie that these musicians are advocates for a harmonious local music scene.

By Rich Howells Weekender Editor

Sascha Konietzko is often credited as one of the founders of industrial rock music, so what does the electronic pioneer think of recent trends like dubstep?

He simply doesn’t.

“I know what dubstep is, but I cannot tell you that I’ve listened to anything thinking, ‘Oh, so that’s dubstep, huh?’ I don’t know. I’m living a little bit in my own world, and when I’m recording, I think it’s really good to have a free head and not go, ‘Oh yeah, I want to make this sound like modern dubstep, (or) dubsteppy,” he related with a laugh.

“I know my bandmates, they all f——-g hate dubstep. Maybe I’ll buy some dubstep compilation when we’re on the tour bus next week and play it up and down, up and down every day. See what happens.”

The 51-year-old German is just too busy as the frontman, founder, and only steady member of KMFDM, a hard-hitting cross between heavy metal and techno that’s slated to play The Trocadero Theatre (1003 Arch St., Philadelphia) on March 19. While he has been dedicated to the innovative project for most of his life, Konietzko said he didn’t initially pursue a career in music.

“I played in a band when I was like 12, 13 years old and was never very good. It was kind of disheartening. I went into photography and visual stuff and met these guys that were artists in the classic sense, painters and sculptors and whatnot, and they were always drunk and needed a driver, so I was their driver. One time, I drove them to Paris and I was just talking to them and they said, ‘Oh, so you make sound stuff?

Why don’t you do a little sound to

this installation that we’re doing?’

That was the day that we coined the name KMFDM,” Konietzko recalled, an initialism that roughly translates to “no pity for the majority.”

“I went around with those guys and made more performance things. Then I met a guy who ran a studio and I got interested in studio technology, and then that was that. About a year later, we had, I don’t know, six or seven tracks recorded. And then I met a guy who had a label.”

After pressing 1,000 vinyl records he paid for out-of-pocket, he dropped off copies at every record label office in London; he soon received a call from someone who found it in a dumpster and was intrigued by the cover, a picture of the daughter of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

After being licensed to Wax Trax!

Records in Chicago, KMFDM grabbed the attention of Ministry singer Al Jourgensen, who asked the band to open for him in the United States, where KMFDM would develop its largest fanbase.

“I guess I never would have set foot on American soil if it hadn’t been for Al, actually. Funny how that goes, huh?” Konietzko mused.

“Had I said, ‘Nah, I’m not interested,’ or ‘I don’t know who Ministry is,’ which I didn’t, everything – my entire life – would have been completely different I’m sure.”

KMFDM has recorded 17 studio albums and dozens of singles and remixes since, the “backbone” of the group being Konietzko’s own personal taste, only putting his name on music he would listen to himself and handling all the writing, recording, and mixing.

“I have a pretty high standard of how I feel things should sound. If I listen to the older stuff, it’s very punk rock, which is definitely part of its charm, too, but everything has changed. Back in the day, I

Courtesy Photo KMFDM is a hard-hitting cross between heavy metal and techno.

was working two to three day jobs just to get money to go into the studio, and now I’m sitting in a studio all day. But, I’m never bored,” he emphasized.

Turning down million-dollar deals that would have compromised his ideals, the man who fans call “Käpt’n K” believes that art should be a reflection of reality, so his songs are often ripped from the headlines and never shy away from expressing his own political or personal beliefs, including those on his latest album, “Kunst.”

“A KMFDM album is like a snapshot. It shows what the band is up to in the timeframe that an album was made, and it is a reflection, really, of what happened in the world during that time as well because a lot of things that are happening in this world are just sort of finding their way somehow into these lyrics,” he explained.

“For instance, this one (new) song, ‘Pussy Riot,’ is a song of solidarity with the incarcerated members of (Russian punk rock group) Pussy Riot… Right around when they were sentenced to jail or hard labor camp, this Ukrainian female rights activity group FEMEN did this action where they felled this gigantic cross in downtown Kiev, and as they usually do, they did this without any tops on, so I saw this on YouTube and I called (KMFDM cover) artist Aidan ‘Brute’ (Hughes). I said, ‘Aidan, this is the image that you have waited for your entire life.’ And two days later, I had it in my mailbox. He was like, ‘This is going to be your cover, and I was like, ‘Oh OK, this is going to raise some eyebrows. Nice one.”

Facebook soon took the image down from KMFDM’s profile page, but after 29 years of “conceptual continuity,” Konietzko isn’t about to back down and compromise for anyone, though he stresses that he never takes his work too seriously.

“KMFDM is very serious about what KMFDM is doing, but KMFDM doesn’t take itself serious. I think that probably is the way to describe it. When KMFDM is doing something, it’s definitely done right and the full monty, but that doesn’t mean that anyone or ourselves can’t laugh about it because it’s got to be funny. How can you be all super serious about this s—t?” he questioned.

“KMFDM is not going to take your values away from you – it just makes fun of them.”

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(667 n. river St., plAinS) 570.822.2992, riverStreetJAzzcAFe.com • Still hAnd String BAnd / quimBY mountAin BAnd: mAr. 16, 10 p.m., $5 • mYSterY FYre / Flux cApAcitor: mAr. 23, 10 p.m., $5 • AlexiS p. Suter BAnd / eddie rAndAzzo: April 13, 10 p.m., $10 • ol’ cABBAge: “An evening oF phiSh”: April 19, 10 p.m., $5 • Bernie Worrell orcheStrA: April 20, 10 p.m., $8 • StArt mAking SenSe: tAlking heAdS triBute: April 27, 10 p.m., $8

SCRANTON COMMUNITY CONCERTS

(melloW theAter, 501 vine St., ScrAnton) 570.955.1455, lAckAWAnnA.edu, etix.com priceS vArY, Student And group rAteS AvAilABle • tim WArField’S triBute to ShirleY Scott: mArch 22, 8 p.m., $25-$30, $15 StudentS • the Four FreShmen: April 20, 8 p.m., $25-$30, $15 StudentS

Send listings to WBWnews@ civitasmedia.com, 90 E. Market St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 18703, or fax to 570.831.7375. Deadline is Mondays at 2 p.m. With the exception of concert listings, print listings occur up until three weeks from publication date.

SCRANTON CULTURAL CENTER

(420 n. WAShington Ave., ScrAnton) 888.669.8966, ScrAntonculturAlcenter.org • up & coming comedY SerieS: mArch.

16, 8 p.m., $16 • celtic WomAn: mArch 19, 7:30 p.m., $59 • “the vieW” With A ScrAnton Attitude: mArch 22, 7 p.m., $6 • liSten locAl FeAturing grip oF the godS: April 5, $10 • “peter pAn”: April 5-7, timeS vArY,

$37-$57 • Air Force BAnd And Singing SergeAntS: April 9, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

• nepA philhArmonic: “StreiSAnd SongBook:” April 13, 8 p.m., $34-$65 • up & coming comedY SerieS: April 13, 8 p.m., $16 • nepA philhArmonic: “peter And the WolF:” April 14, 2 p.m., $9 • “hAir:” April 15-16, 7:30 p.m., $32.50$52.50 • “the vieW” With A ScrAnton Attitude: April 26, 7 p.m., $6

SHERMAN THEATER

(524 mAin St., StroudSBurg) 570.420.2808, SHermaNtHeater.com • tonY kennY’S iriSh celeBrAtion: mArch 14, 8 p.m., $35 • hAmmer oF the godS: the led zeppelin experience: mArch 16, 8 p.m., $30 • circA Survive & minuS the BeAr: mArch 20, 8 p.m., $23 • AWolnAtion / BlondFire / mother mother: mArch 22, 7 p.m., $20 • three dAYS grAce / pop evil: April 19, 8 p.m., $25 • chriS Young: April 20, 8 p.m., $25-$35 • Steel pAnther: April 26, 8 p.m., $20 • opeth / kAtAtoniA: April 27, 7 p.m., $23

VINTAGE THEATER

(326 Spruce St., ScrAnton) 570.589.0271, ScrAntonSvintAgetheater.com • Singer/Song Writer night With BrendA FerndAez, mAdiSon levinSon, And ed cuozzo: mArch 14, doorS 6:30 p.m., ShoW At 7. $5.

• ideS oF mArch concert With the Soviet, A Fire With FriendS, inSteAd oF Sleeping, Silhouette lieS, And teAm!: mArch 15, doorS 6 p.m., ShoW At 7. $7.

• Stephen tYler Bloom, dAn cuSick, And JuSt BluSh: mArch 22, doorS 7 p.m., ShoW At 8. $6.

• grAph rABBit, the AtomiquS, dAYS in trAnSit And more: mArch 29, doorS 7 p.m., ShoW At 8. $7.

PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC FACTORY

(3421 WilloW St., philAdelphiA) 215.love.222, electricFActorY.inFo • Finch: mArch 15, 8:30 p.m.

• exciSion: mArch 16, 8:30 p.m.

• BAd religion: mArch 24, 8 p.m.

• the BlAck croWeS: April 12, 9 p.m.

• mindleSS SelF indulgence: April 14, 8 p.m.

• SevenduSt / coAl chAmBer: April 18, 7 p.m.

• All time loW / pierce the veil: April 21-22, 6:30 p.m.

THE FILLMORE AT THE TLA

(334 South St., philAdelphiA) 215.922.1011, tlAphillY.com • Stephen lYnch: mArch 13-14, 8 p.m.

• YAcht rock revue: mArch 15, 8 p.m.

• the SAW doctorS: mArch 17, 7 p.m.

• emBlem 3: mArch 20, 7 p.m.

• Alt-J: mArch 21, 8 p.m.

• tWiztid: mArch 23, 8 p.m.

• tYler, the creAtor: mArch 24, 9 p.m.

• the revivAl tour: mArch 27, 8 p.m.

• george WAtSkY: mArch 28, 9 p.m.

• veterAn FreShmAn preSentS driickY grAhAm: mArch 29, 9 p.m.

• theY might Be giAntS: April 5, 7 p.m.

• c2c: April 6, 9 p.m.

• AndreW mcmAhon: April 10, 7:30 p.m.

• pArkWAY drive: April 12, 7:30 p.m.

• Steel pAnther: April 16, 8 p.m.

• collie Buddz “light it up” tour: April 19, 9 p.m.

• keller WilliAmS With more thAn A little: April 20, 8 p.m.

The Tartan Terrors will rock the Mauch Chunk Opera House stage (14 W. Broadway, Jim Thorpe) with their Celtic charm March 15 at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $32. For more information, call 570.325.0249 or visit mauchchunkoperahouse.com.

• gogo morroW: April 24, 8 p.m.

KESWICK THEATRE

(291 north keSWick Ave., glenSide) 215.572.7650, keSWicktheAtre.com • george thorogood & the deStroYerS: mArch 14, 7:30 p.m.

• nick cAve & the BAd SeedS: mArch 19, 8 p.m.

• AmY Schumer: mArch 22, 8 p.m.

• the FAB FAux: mArch 23, 8 p.m.

• JeSuS chriSt SuperStAr: mAr. 28-30, timeS vArY • living colour: April 4, 8 p.m.

• dAve mASon (AcouStic duo): April 6, 8 p.m.

• Bill coSBY: April 7: 3 p.m.

• the mAverickS: April 10, 7:30 p.m.

• 1964: the triBute: April 12, 8 p.m.

• ron White: April 13, 7 And 10 p.m.

• B.B. king: April 17, 7:30 p.m.

• greAt Big SeA: April 18, 7:30 p.m.

• Steve WilSon oF porcupine tree: April 19, 8 p.m.

• BillY BrAgg: April 20, 8 p.m.

• JAke ShimABukuro / leo kottke: April 21, 7:30 p.m.

• BoneY JAmeS: April 24, 8 p.m.

• toWer oF poWer / AverAge White BAnd: April 26, 8 p.m.

• motoWn meetS rock & roll: April 28, 3 p.m.

TROCADERO THEATRE

(1003 Arch St., philAdelphiA) 215.336.2000, tHetroc.com • SoilWork / JeFF loomiS / BlAckguArd: mArch 13, 6:30 p.m.

• kmFdm / legion Within: mArch 19, 8 p.m.

• AnBerlin: mArch 22, 7 p.m.

• the Fighting JAmeSonS: mArch 23, 9 p.m.

• SenSeS FAil / Such gold / reAl FriendS / mAJor leAgue: April 4, 7 p.m.

• tootS And the mAYtAlS: April 10, 9 p.m.

• volBeAt / dAnko JoneS / Spoken: April 11, 7:30 p.m.

• the legWArmerS: April 27, 9 p.m.

• JohnnY mArr: April 30, 8 p.m.

WELLS FARGO CENTER

(3601 South BroAd St., philAdelphiA) 215.336.3600, WellSFArgocenterphillY. com • rihAnnA: mArch 14, 7:30 p.m.

• p!nk: mArch 17, 7:30 p.m.

• mAroon 5 / neon treeS / oWn citY: April 4, 7:30 p.m.

• FleetWood mAc: April 6, 8 p.m.

• rod SteWArt / Steve WinWood: April 12, 7:30 p.m.

ELSEWHERE IN PA BRYCE JORDAN CENTER

(127 univerSitY dr., StAte college) 814.865.5500, BJc.pSu.edu • AmericA’S got tAlent: mArch 13, 7:30 p.m.

• kendrick lAmAr: April 22, 8 p.m.

CROCODILE ROCK

(520 WeSt HamiltoN St, alleNtoWN) 610.434.460, crocodilerockcAFe.com • SirenS And SAilorS: mArch 15, 7 p.m.

• Fox trot / endleSS victorY: mArch 16, 7 p.m.

• glen mAtlock oF the Sex piStolS: mArch 20, 6 p.m.

• thiS iS All noW: mArch 22, 7 p.m.

• cloSe to home / deStriA / Alive in StAndBY / diSmemBer the FAllen: mArch 24, 6 p.m.

• endleSS victorY / liminAl: (elite room) April 6, 7 p.m.

• reverSe order / crASh the pArtY: April 6, 7 p.m.

• SpoSe: April 17, 7 p.m.

• Silver dreSS pAntS: April 19, 7 p.m.

• gAnStAgrASS: April 26, 7 p.m.

• millionAireS / trAce cYruS / BeneAth the Sun / lAnciFer: April 28, 8 p.m.

GIANT CENTER

(950 herSheYpArk dr., herSheY) 717.534.3911, giAntcenter.com • hArlem gloBetrotterS: mArch 15, 7 p.m.

• cArrie underWood: mArch 25, 7:30 p.m.

• mirAndA lAmBert / dierkS BentleY: April 19, 7 p.m.

SANDS BETHLEHEM EVENT CENTER

(77 SAndS Blvd., Bethlehem) 610.2977414, SAndSeventcenter.com • Scott WeilAnd: mArch 14, 8 p.m.

• JeWel: mArch 15, 7:30 p.m.

• YeS: April 7, 7 p.m.

• Bill engvAll: April 12, 8 p.m.

• WAYne neWton: April 20, 8 p.m.

SOVEREIGN CENTER

(700 penn St., reAding) 610.898.7299, Sovereigncenter.com • hArlem gloBetrotterS: mArch 16, 1 p.m.

• diAne reeveS And the rSo JAzz FeSt: April 5, 7:30 p.m.

• incognito / mAYSA: JAzz FeSt: April 6, 7 p.m.

• Fiddler on the rooF: April 15, 6 p.m.

• BoB Seger & the Silver Bullet BAnd: April 23, 7:30 p.m.

• JoAn riverS: April 26, 8 p.m.

• tedeSchi truckS BAnd: April 28, 7:30 p.m.

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When speaking to Mike Orlando about his heavy metal project Adrenaline Mob, it’s easy to see why the band was given that name.

The guitarist, selected as a top ten finalist for Guitar Player magazine’s Guitar Superstar of the Year in 2008, can’t hide his excitement when talking about the “supergroup,” which includes singer Russell Allen of Symphony X; drummer Mike Portnoy, formerly of Dream Theater; and bassist John Moyer of Disturbed. They’ll be playing at Goodfellas Café (1105 S Centre St., Pottsville) on Friday, March 15 with Nothing More and True Becoming, so The Weekender asked the New Yorker about his solo work, playing alongside respected musicians, and paying tribute to others.

THE WEEKENDER: After playing in so many bands over the years, what made you go solo in 2006 with “Sonic Stomp?”

MIKE ORLANDO: A dear friend of mine, Zakk Wylde, and my buddy Phil, who’s worked with Zakk for forever, just pushed me to do a solo album. I had been doing so much stuff before that, a lot of touring in different bands.

I played with a ton of different people…but nothing that took off.

I was always a working musician.

But once I got pushed from Phil and Zakk to do the instrumental stuff – they’re like, ‘You know, you should just do what you do, Mike,” – that got me going on “Sonic Stomp I.” I recorded it and that really opened up so many different doors and took me to a different level and got me to travel all over the world… It took me out of the unknown, so to say, and got me going.

W: And then you released “Sonic Stomp II” in 2010. What did you do differently on that record?

MO: I just wanted to take it to the next level of playing. I think my lead playing was a big leap from “Sonic Stomp I” to “Sonic Stomp II,” and the songs, although they’re still cool and they’re grooving and that’s always the

same because I am about songs, I think the playing just stepped up, and there’s some really crazy parts.

W: How often do you have to practice to get to that level?

MO: I wish I could practice as much as I should. I should practice more these days, but it’s tough. I’m in the studio and I own a recording studio, Sonic Stomp Studios, where we track everything… I’m not an avid practicer. I would love to be.

I kind of play in the moment, more passion than technique. I feel that it’s kind of more in your heart and your mind than just so much in your fingers and the technical aspect of it… That kind of keeps me going.

W: What is it like working with the guys in Adrenaline Mob, all accomplished musicians in their own right?

MO: I’m respectively not from the prog world, and it’s incredible – they’re from two giants of the prog world, Dream Theater and Symphony X, amazing bands at what they do. I’m brought up on Randy Rhoads, Eddie Van Halen, and rock, so seeing two prog guys and kind of pulling them into this rock world – it’s like, “Hey, guys, I’ve got something else that can be amazing,” – it’s great to see them do it because it’s something that you wouldn’t think they would do.

We definitely turn it up in certain areas, but Adrenaline Mob is about the song; it’s not about my guitar playing or Mike’s drumming or Russell’s singing – it is the sum of the parts putting together a great performance to a great song. Well, hopefully people think it’s great; we definitely do. We think everybody’s going to love it, but that’s what it’s really about.

W: Do you guys shy away from the term “supergroup,” or do you not mind that?

MO: I can only speak for myself – I don’t mind it. I get it.

Mike’s from this prog supergroup for 25 years, and Russell from Symphony X – I mean, those guys are monsters. And I get that everyone can take their respective instrument to a really crazy place, let’s say, but we don’t abuse it.

Live we definitely turn up the fire. We turn that thermostat up

Courtesy Photo Adrenaline Mob’s heavy metal sound is made possible by a combination of talented, seasoned musicians.

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to 120, and we definitely pull out some really cool stuff live. We’re way more of a live band. The album is cool, but when you see us live, that’s where we live. wW: Why did you release a cover of Black Sabbath’s “Mob Rules” before your first album came out?

MO: That was a funny thing.

I had the original name, the Adrenaline Fueled Junkies, that I was rolling with for a while, and Mike had come up with the whole “mob” feeling because with the three of us, it just kind of felt like that. We’re East Coasters, we’re kind of having fun with the “mob” thing; you feel like brothers, like a gang. It’s a great play on it, and we just combined it and worlds collided – “Adrenaline Mob.” Mike was like, “That’s it – we’ve got to do ‘Mob Rules’ now.”

W: You have a new record, “Covertá,” that includes more covers. Why do a cover album?

MO: It was a great idea that got thrown at us from our whole new team. We have a great new manager, Larry Mazer, and they all teamed together and we came up with this idea. I had such a blast doing it, paying tribute to some of the greatest rock bands there are.

What an honor to put on a different hat in each song and kind of just pay homage and do your best to pay tribute to such greats like Ritchie Blackmore and Eddie Van Halen and all these great bands like Led Zeppelin. It was an honor for me, and I think it came out amazing and I really hope people really enjoy it.

People know me for the crazy “Sonic Stomp” stuff and the overthe-top stuff, but to get to lay back and do Page and “The Lemon Song,” and one of my all-time favorite guitar heroes is Jake E. Lee, so to pay tribute to him and “Hire Wire” – I think people are going to really like the bluesy side of Adrenaline Mob. W: What are you looking forward to most about these upcoming Mob shows?

MO: Every area, every show is dear and close to me with Adrenaline Mob because I have such a great time playing and doing it.

That’s one thing everybody says to me: “You smile the whole damn set.” Well, I’m having blast! How could I not? I’ve got one of the most ferocious bands behind me. I mean, jeez.

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Around the time Quentin Tarantino was promoting “Django Unchained,� he announced his impending retirement. When asked why he was retiring, Tarantino replied, “Directors don’t get better as they get older. Usually the worst films in their filmography are those last four at the end.� Whether or not Tarantino is going to stay true to his word is irrelevant because he’s right.

All great directors eventually lose their edge. They get lazy, lose their resourcefulness, and in some cases, simply cover every square inch of their film with CG effects, cross their fingers, and then hope for the best.

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Simultaneously serving as prequel to the original MGM version of the “Wizard of Oz� and the classic L. Frank Baum novel, “Oz the Great and Powerful� revolves around a shifty, womanizing carnival magician (James Franco) who inadvertently winds up in the magical land of Oz while riding a hot air balloon during a hurricane (at the time, he was trying to escape the jealous boyfriend of a former lover). While in Oz, Franco is repeatedly mistaken for “the great man that will save them all.� Franco plays along, at least

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The true low point occurs when it’s revealed that the Wicked Witch only became the Wicked Witch when the Wizard f——d her and didn’t call the next day.

Ugh. Couldn’t she have just keyed his hot air balloon and moved on?

Boasting a number of unnecessary nods to the MGM original that only serve to draw unfair comparisons, ill-considered set designs that resemble Middle Earth by way of Candyland, and an overly long running time, “Oz the Great and Powerful� serves as a chilling reminder that Sam Raimi hasn’t just lost his touch – he also might be slowly morphing into Tim Burton.

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initially when he’s treated like a king and can sweet-talk all sorts of witches and fairy creatures into his bed.

But when the Wicked Witch of the West (Mila Kunis) and her manipulative sister (Rachel Weis) start terrorizing the whimsical country, Franco starts to have second thoughts about hanging around Oz. Will he hitch a ride back to Kansas on the nearest hot air balloon or will he stand his ground and fight back? Here’s a hint: it’s a multi-million dollar movie produced by Disney. What do you think?

You know a film’s got problems when the most likable or recognizably human characters on screen are a winged monkey in a bellhop uniform and a talking porcelain doll. Robert Downey, Jr. was the original choice to play the role of the youthful wizard of Oz, and you get the sense that he’s the only one who could have made this sleazy character charming.

Franco, on the other hand, isn’t up to it. He plays Oz with that same smirking, aloof quality he brings to all of his roles now, as if it’s all part of some bigger joke that only he understands.

It also doesn’t help that all of the female characters are ineffectual and weak. They mostly sit

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Spinto Band wraps audience in ‘Cool Cocoon’

Philly native Alec Ounsworth looked out at the audience from behind clear cat-eyed rims.

“I can’t hit those notes,” Ounsworth confessed, due to a cold.

But fans of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah may argue that the singer’s scrapes toward haunting high notes make his distinct style. Ounsworth, who performed from both his solo and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah catalogs, kicked off The Spinto Band’s release show at Philadelphia’s own Johnny Brenda’s on Saturday, Feb. 16.

Ounsworth was followed by Language Problem, a Philly outfit composed of musicians that span the scene from Philadelphia to Scranton, including Brian Langan (Langor, The Sw!ms, Kock 107), Claire Connelly (The Sw!ms, Daylight Savings & Loan), Steve Quaranta (Paper Masques, Yellow Humphrey, Zelda Pinwheel), and Mike Spano (She Policeman, Daylight Savings & Loan). The quartet played zany dance rock with synthy beats and dizzying feedback. Quaranta tossed his voice up high, dancing on his tiptoes in Chuck Taylors. Connelly’s driving drumbeat fed heavy instrumentals. Spano and Langan’s strings wailed, echoed by swaying hair.

Spinto pal Pat Finnerty (OK Paddy, And the Moneynotes) announced the band in his own weird way, and the Spinto boys took to the stage in front of a colorfully lit, beaded backdrop.

The Philly favorites, by way of Wilmington, Delaware, celebrated their fourth LP, “Cool Cocoon,” released by their own Spintonic Records, with a raucous 19-song set. The quintet – lead vocalists Nick Krill and Thomas Hughes, guitarist Joey Hobson, keyboardist Sam Hughes, and drummer Jeffrey Hobson – peppered the set list with six out of 10 songs from their latest release.

“Cool Cocoon” opener and urban angst ode “Shake It Off” was sixth on the list, followed

by Joey Hobson’s breathy vocals against the mechanical rhythm of “Memo.” During a docile version of “Look Away,” Krill’s gentle lilt floated up to the silver cherubs that dangled from the balcony.

Thomas Hughes found the high notes Ounsworth had been searching for during “Amy + Jen,” the album’s dreamy, indiebilly second track. The crowd went wild within the first moments of “What I Love.” The audience faintly cooed along with the rolling ballad, then Krill bantered about Lucille Ball before spinning into “Na Na Na.”

He entreated fans to sing along with the Lucy-esque “na, na, nas,” shouting, “Put your hair up, make it red, and channel Lucille Ball!”

The Spinto Band pulled from their arsenal of sunny indie rock, pulsing with the hum and bounce of video game sounds, and played plenty of early hits and dance anthems. “The Living Things,” off 2012’s “Shy Pursuit,” set the crowd – and the band – dancing, then led to muted keys in fan favorite “Summer Grof,” off 2008’s “Moonwink.”

The dancey throwback “Trust vs. Mistrust” off 2005’s “Nice and Nicely Done” shook up the crowd in time for “Shy Pursuit” hit “Take It.” In “Brown Boxes,” Thomas Hughes boasted the most sinister sounding kazoo that ever took the stage, while Krill strummed like a metronomic robot.

Joey Hobson coyly led vocals on “Leave Yourself Alone,” a “Shy Pursuit” favorite that featured standout harmonies. Nick Krill windmilled his arm while guitaring through “The Cat’s Pajamas,” then brought it down to a slow-dance-at-prom tempo.

Cult favorite “Oh Mandy” began a string of tunes from the breakout album “Nice and Nicely Done.”

True to the recording, “Direct to Helmet” was a spectacular instance of the chemistry between band members, then a flicker of silence sparked the brief, springy, Spintographic Atari anthem “Mountains.”

Hughes warned, “This is a hip shaker,” before launching into piquant Ary Barroso cover “Brazil.” They lingered instrumentally for a spell, then The Spinto Band closed their release show with 2005’s supersonic, snare-y, foot-stomping “Late.” The crowd and band, all danced-out, moved toward the bar, the merch table, and the respective exits as the energy of the well-executed, highly anticipated concert drifted into the streets of Philadelphia.

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Weekender Correspondent The pulse of dripping water, the steady breath of a violin, and the heartbeat of thousands of bats in a cave open “Language of Angels,” a delicately woven ghost story by playwright Naomi Iizuka.

The University of Scranton Players production begins with an invitation to the audience to imagine and to experience. Directed

by New York ‘s renowned José Zayas, the 80-minute piece follows six characters in Tennessee mountain country from their days of playing in caves to their abrupt adolescence, from their haunted adulthoods to the final years of the surviving few.

Playwright Naomi Iizuka is known for her nonlinear storytelling. The director elucidates: “Her plays are driven by language, by formal concerns.”

Zayas has worked with many contemporary language-based playwrights, in both Spanish and English, including Caridad Svitch and Sarah Ruhl. Zayas recently directed Ruhl’s award-winning play “The Clean House” and Edward Albee’s equally imagistic and stimulating “Tiny Alice” at the University of Scranton.

In “Language of Angels,” Iizuka has woven a gossamer thread of voices, both past and present, from scene to scene. She presents the audience with subtle indicators of the truths among friendly legends and unspoken assumptions.

Ethereal images and phrases are

repeated and juxtaposed throughout the play. “Language of Angels” is a fresh take on theater and storytelling.

“She’s riffing on the idea of how we tell ghost stories,” explains Zayas.

Iizuka’s ghost story fits into the popular lineage of smart yet spooky storytelling, with roots in Japanese Noh and J-horror.

“It’s not like a traditional ghost story because we don’t have to

wait until the end to find out who did it,” explains dramaturg Hank Willenbrink. “Instead, the play’s deliberate investigation of what happened that night to upset the lives of so many people is mirrored in the production’s usage of silence, sound, and very deliberate pacing.”

With Iizuka’s rich, sensual language and the spectacle of the production, the audience is immersed in the experience of the story.

“Theater, in many ways, isn’t that much different now than when it first started out some 2,500 years ago,” says Willenbrink. “The two things you need are also the most important: an actor and someone to hear them talk. That’s the strength of this production and this play;

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we watch the effects of life play out on a large canvas.”

Some students have had the opportunity to work with Zayas since his Scranton debut directing David Mamet’s “The Water Engine.”

“It’s my fourth year coming to Scranton,” says the director, who has seen a few freshmen through to their senior season. “It’s really edifying to see them growing and learning storytelling.”

The small cast of students – Cillian Byrne, Catherine Fischer, Tim Flynn, Michael Kranick, Keri Irace, Megan Lasky, Kiley Lotz and Joe McGurl – portray the same group of friends over a few decades and indicate the various stages of their characters’ lives with precise acting choices as opposed to old age makeup.

“This is also why it’s the perfect college show,” says Willenbrink,“because it lets the actors make big choices which have impacts far beyond the moment that a particular choice is made.”

This production’s choices, ranging from bold multimedia and multi-leveled platforms to delicate gestures and swelling silences, trace a pattern of distinct impressions. There’s great tension in the eye contact and physical stillness between characters, in particular between Kiley Lotz’s Danielle and Joe McGurl’s JB. Lotz’s emotional range and static energy stun.

“This play is an exercise in stillness,” Zayas notes. The exercise will undoubtedly engage the audience, too, in a captivated stillness.

“Language of Angels” runs March 15-17 at the University of Scranton’s intimate Royal Theater in the McDade Center for Literary and Performing Arts. Tickets are available online via uofsplayers.wufoo.com/forms/z7x4a3 and through the box office at 570.941.4318.

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Language of Angels: March 15-17, times vary, University of Scranton’s Royal Theater (McDade Center for Literary and Performing Arts). $7-$10.

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Send your listings to WBWnews@ civitasmedia.com, 90 E. Market St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 18703, or fax to 570.831.7375. Deadline is Mondays at 2 p.m. Print listings occur up until three weeks from publication date. Expanded listings at theweekender.com. thurSday of each Month, 7 p.M., the olde brick theatre (126 w. Market St., Scranton).

• SubMiSSionS for dyoniSia ’13: the third annual JaSon Miller playwrightS’ proJect invitational being accepted through May 15.

• writing a better 10-Minute play workShop: March 13, 6:30 p.M. a donation of $5-10 requeSted. reServationS: 570.591.1378 or nePaPlaywrightS@live.coM. King’s College Theatre (adMin. bldg., 133 n. river St., wilkeS-barre, 570.208.5825) • “richard iii” by williaM ShakeSpeare: april 11-13, 15, 7:30 p.M.; april 14, 2 p.M. $12, StudentS/Senior citizenS; $5.

Limelight Players • “into the woodS:” March 15-16, 23-24, april 5-6, 7 p.M.; March 17, 24, april 7, 1 p.M., phoenix perforMing artS centre (409-411 Main St., duryea). $12.

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Music Box Players (196 hugheS St., SwoyerSville: 570.283.2195 or 800.698.Play or MuSicbox.org) • “the tv guide MuSical:” March 1517. $20, Spagetti dinner and Show; $16, Show only.

Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire auditionS for the 33rd SeaSon, ManSion at Mount hope eState, route 72. callbackS will be held in the afternoon and will StreSS MoveMent. thoSe auditioning Should wear looSe fitting or coMfortable clothing. by appointMent only, 717.665.7021, ext. 120.

Pines Dinner Theatre (448 north 17th St., allentown.

610.433.2333. pineSdinnertheatre. coM) • “i love a piano:” March 21-June 2. thurSday and Sunday, 12:30 p.M. dinner, 2 p.M. Show; friday and Saturday, 6:30 p.M. dinner, 8 p.M. Show. $48.50.

Scranton Cultural Center (420 n. waShington ave., Scranton, 570.346.7369) broadway Scranton (broadwayScranton.coM) preSentS: • “StoMp:” March 5-6, fri., 8 p.M., Sat., 2 & 8 p.M., Sun., 1 & 6 p.M. • celtic woMan: March 19, 7:30 p.M. $102, $62, $42. group rateS for 11 or More call 570.344.1111 .

• cathy rigby iS “peter pan:” april 5-7, fri., 8 p.M., Sat., 2 & 8 p.M., Sun., 1 & 6 p.M. • “hair:” april 15-16, 7:30 p.M. • “dreaMgirlS:” May 10-12, fri., 8 p.M., Sat., 2 & 8 p.M., Sun., 1 & 6 p.M.

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Scranton High School Knight Players (www.ShSknightplayerS.coM) • “annie: the MuSical:” March 15-16, 7 p.M.; March 17, 1 p.M. $6, StudentS and SeniorS; $10, adultS. Shawnee Playhouse (570.421.5093, theShawneeplayhouSe. coM) • “dancing at lughnaSa:” March 8, 10, 15, 17, 2 p.M.; March 8-9, 15-16, 8 p.M. $18, adultS; $15, SeniorS over 55, aaa MeMberS, and Military; $10, 12 yearS old and under.

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The Vintage Theater (326 Spruce St., Scranton, info@ ScrantonSvintagetheater.coM) • Scranton coMedy night: March 30, doorS 7 p.M., Show at 8. $5.

A doubt swells within us. Can we trust him, this ghost of a man? Time may tell, but for now, we make the plunge forward, following the ventures of a man who has long forgotten his true identity.

Meet Jack. First name only.

Last name, unknown. Protagonist and master creation in Roger Hobbs’s debut novel, “Ghostman” – a first-person narrative about a man as elusive as his fictitious names.

Jack has lived a life of crime, resulting in business tactics that often come across cold and calculated. He might be a sociopath, but Jack is charming and mysterious – a character readers both question and applaud. Once every mission is complete, Jack’s existence fades into the background as he goes on to create one identity after the next.

Following a large-scale robbery in Atlantic City, N.J., scheme master Marcus Hayes must make the ultimate decision.

After all, “[t]his was a job with strict plans, timing and endgame – a jugmarker’s heist from beginning to end. The man with a plan knew everything and called all the shots.” Unfortunately for Marcus, the plan failed.

The spoiled heist prompts Marcus to contact off-the-grid protagonist and anti-hero, Jack,

who accepts the job in order to salvage a previous incident.

Jack is tasked with finding the perpetrator who not only killed a member of Marcus’s crew, but also seized the money.

As Jack’s mission unfolds in a matter of 48 hours, readers are given a glimpse into his past.

In a seamless manner, the plot moves from the present to the past, five years earlier, when Jack made a fatal mistake in Malaysia during a robbery. Back to present time, the event continues to haunt Jack, necessitating his obligation to help Marcus.

Meanwhile, as Jack’s relationship with Marcus continues to remain strained, Marcus’s rival, the cold-blooded criminal otherwise known as the Wolf, soon embeds himself into their affairs.

But Jack, taking note from Virgil’s epic poem “The Aeneid,” continues forward using the motto, “Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo,” which he translates as, “[i]f you can’t reach heaven, raise hell.”

Much like the poem, an epic war looms, but a hero is destined.

Down to every detail of a toaster and methodical robbery, Hobbs’s unique voice resonates, making this newcomer a strong contender in the world of crime fiction. Like some of the best writers, Hobbs has created a character that evolves, becoming more complex as the plot rolls to an open-ended conclusion. Jack, like most ghosts, will always have unfinished business.

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Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre ( 537 north Main StreetwilkeSbarre. 570.823.1875.)

• “the MuSic Man:” March 16, 22-23, 8 p.M.; March 17, 24, 3 p.M. $18.

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Dietrich Theatre (60 e. tioga Street, tunkhannock, 570.996.1500, dietrichtheater.coM) • “auntie MaMe:” april. 24-27, 7 p.M.; april 28, 3 p.M. • toM knight puppet Show: april 17, 1:30 p.M.

Novel approach

Misericordia University (www.MiSericordia.edu, 570.674.6400; box office, 674.6719, MiSericordia. edu) • “the letterMan:” March 22, 7:30 p.M., leMMond theater at walSh hall.$35, center ticketS; $20, general adMiSSion.

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Actors Circle at Providence Playhouse (1256 Providence rd, Scranton, reServationS: 570.342.9707, actorScircle.org) • “SeniorS of the Sahara:” March 14-16, 22-23, 8 p.M.; March 17, 24, 2 p.M. $12, general adMiSSion; $10, SeniorS; $8, StudentS. preview Show March 14: $8, general adMiSSion and SeniorS; $6 StudentS.

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Well, going into the Actors Circle’s latest show, “Seniors of the Sahara,” you can forget all of that.

Instead, what you stumble upon is a geriatric genie who is fondly called “Eugene” by the master trying to pass him off as human.

He is afflicted with lumbago, has a penchant for vodka and V8, and resides in a teapot.

“It’s not quite the genie she anticipates,” said Cathy Strauch of the main character, Sylvia Goldberg, who finds the magic entity.

Strauch plays Fannie, a friend of Sylvie’s.

As can already be concluded, “Seniors of the Sahara” isn’t some epic tragedy, but a comedy that’ll have the audience chuckling all the way out the door.

Sylvie attends her grandson’s wedding in Israel and brings back what she believes to be a souvenir she purchased at an outdoor market. She gets much more than she bargained for in the form of the aforementioned genie in a teapot (played by Jeff Ginsberg).

As if keeping this find from her friends Mabel (Lorrie Loughney), Thelma (Regina Yeager), and Fannie isn’t enough, Sylvie also has to deal with Eugene’s former master, Savalas (George Cosmetis), who follows Sylvia home and threatens

Courtesy Photo It’s a battle for who will become the owner of Eugene, a coveted genie that fell unexpectedly into the hands of lead character Sylvie.

her because the teapot was sold to her accidentally by his wife.

The show is a riot from the start.

“I absolutely love the very beginning when Savalas and Refik (played by Casey Thomas) do their little bit and get the crowd going,” noted Strauch.

Strauch’s other favorite portion is her signature scene: a belly dance, something she was actually prepared for due to her college years.

“We did ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum’ back in college, and I played Tintinabula, so I learned some belly dance work back then. I finally get to use it after all these years,” Strauch said with a laugh.

The show is certainly a humorous one, but the tone wouldn’t be possible without a cast that not only interacted well together, but

naturally. Strauch feels this is an absolute with this group, whose stage presence as friends goes beyond the bright lights.

“There’s actually a real friendship there,” she said of her work with the other cast members. “We have a really nice chemistry and we enjoy rehearsing the show, and I think that shows on stage.”

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Seniors of the Sahara: March 14 preview show, 8 p.m., $8, general admission; $6, students. March 15, 16, 22, 23, 8 p.m.; March 17, 24, 2 p.m., Providence Playhouse (1256 Providence Road, Scranton). $12, general admission; $10, seniors; $8, students. For reservations, call 570.342.9707.

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AGENDA, FROM PAGE 28 Calligrapher’s Guild of Northeastern Pennsylvania • Meeting: March 15, 7:30 p.M., Marywood University shields center for visUal arts, rooM 225.

Chicory House and Folklore Society (www.folkloresociety.org, 570.333.4007) • new england contra dance: april 6, 7 p.M., chUrch of christ Uniting (776 Market st., kingston). $9.

The Commonwealth Medical College (525 pine st., scranton, 570.504.7000, thecoMMonwealthMedical.coM) • obesity syMposiUM: april 6. registration begins 7:30 a.M. with speakers to follow at 8.

Dietrich Theater (60 e. tioga street, tUnkhannock, 570.996.1500, www.dietrichtheater. coM) • open Mic night: March 22, 7:15 p.M. • reptiles & aMphibians of northeastern pa: March 23, 11 a.M. • spring 2013 filM festival opening night gala: april 5, 5:30 p.M. $35.

• spring 2013 filM festival: april 5-8. $9, evening (after 6 p.M.); $8, Matinee. kids classes: • QUilting for kids – “starry sky” wednesdays, throUgh March 27, 3:30-5 p.M. ages 6 and Up. $6 per class.

• MoveMent and storytelling for preschoolers: ages 4 and 5. series 2, april 3, 10, 17, 24, 10-10:45 a.M. intergenerational classes: • QUilting for everyone: “atlantic star:” ages 13 and Up. wednesdays, throUgh March 27, 6-7:30 p.M. $6 per class, inclUding Materials. adUlt classes: • design a painted silk scarf: March 18, 7-9 p.M. ages 16 and Up. $30.

Dress for Success Lackawanna • 14th annUal lUncheon and fashion show: March 20, 11:45 a.M., radisson lackawanna station hotel, scranton.

The Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce (222 MUlberry st., scranton) • spring bUsiness card exchange: March 26, 5 p.M. • ladies night at the coUntry clUb: april 3, 5-8 p.M., glen oak coUntry clUb (250 oakford road, clarks sUMMit) Irem Clubhouse (64 ridgeway drive, dallas) • spring craft and gift fair: March 16, 11 a.M.-4 p.M. vendors needed, tables $15. to reserve a table by March 8 call 570.675.1134, ext. 100.

• brUnch with bUnny: March 24, 9 a.M.-2 p.M. $11.95, adUlts; $6.95, children.

Jim Thorpe events: • bach and handel chorale easter concert: april 6, 3 p.M., st. Mark’s episcopal chUrch (21 race st., JiM thorpe). $18, adUlts; $15, seniors and stUdents; free, children 10

and Under.

Keyser Valley Community Center (corner of keyser ave. and Jackson st., scranton) • annUal free easter party: March 24, 1-3 p.M. rsvp by March 21 by calling 570.346.1828.

King’s College (133 north river st., wilkes-barre, 570.208.5957 or kings.edU) • ethics lectUre by dr. richard Miller: March 18, 7 p.M., sheehyfarMer caMpUs center. info: 570.208.5957.

• woMen’s stUdies conference: March 25, 7 p.M., bUrke aUditoriUM, williaM g. Mcgowan school of bUsiness. speical gUest dr. atiya stokes-brown of bUcknell University. registration reQUired by calling 570.208.5900, ext. 5771. free. lackawanna aUdUbon society (p.o. box 1372, scranton) • “a lifetiMe of birds.” a presentation by photographer dave fisher: March 17, 2:30 p.M., anthracite MUseUM (22 bald MoUntain road,scranton). for info call 570.586.5156.

Lackawanna College (501 vine st., scranton, 1.877.346.3552, lackawanna.edU) environMental institUte (10 Moffat dr., covington twp.)

• on exhibit: a walk throUgh natUres glory: March 22-april 19.

• live native aniMals: april 3, 6:30-8 p.M. $5. lake-lehMan last knight 2013 gradUation night lock-in vera bradley/coach bingo fUndraiser: april 6, 1 p.M., lake lehMan high school (old roUte 115, lehMan). $20, 20 gaMes of bingo.

LOGAN Foundation • easter egg hUnt for individUals with special needs: March 30, 11 a.M., wyoMing valley sports doMe. pre-registration reQUired by calling 570.704.8054 or 570.762.8407. registered individUals MUst coMe between 10-10:30 a.M. to check in.

Misericordia University (www.Misericordia.edU, 570.674.6400; box office, 674.6719, Misericordia.edU) • easter egg hUnt and brUnch: March 23. seatings at 10-11 a.M. and 11:15 a.M.-12:30 p.M. egg hUnt at 11 a.M. $10, adUlts; $5, children 5-12 years of age; free, children Under 5. reservations reQUired by calling 570.674.6768.

Monroe County Garden Club • Meeting: March 13, 11:30 a.M., hUghes eastern Monroe pUblic library (n. ninth st., stroUdsbUrg). free, MeMbers; $5, gUest donation.

MoUnt hope estate and winery (2775 lebanon road,ManheiM, 717.665.7021, parenfaire.coM) • Job fair: March 16, 9 .M.-4 p.M., March 17, 11 a.M.-3 p.M., swashbUckler pUb. appointMents will be taken after 1pM and can be Made by calling 717-665-7021 x 120.

MoUntain grange no. 567 • Monthly fleaMarket: second satUrday of each Month. 9 a.M.-2

p.M., MoUntain grange hall (1632 w.

8th st., carverton).

Nescopeck State Park (1137 honey hole rd., drUMs, 570.403.2006) • the woods in yoUr backyard: a sUstainable landscape workshop: March 23, 9 a.M.-3:30 p.M. $25. registration reQUired by March 15, 570.825.1701.

• soUnds of a spring night: March 30, 7 p.M. bring a flashlight. free. northern tier syMphony orchestra (570.289.1090, northerntiersyMphony@yahoo.coM, northerntiersyMphony.org) • perforMances: april 6, 8 p.M., honesdale high school (459 terrace st., honesdale); april 13, 8 p.M., tUnkhannock Middle school (200 franklin ave., tUnkhannock). $8, adUlt in advance; $4, stUdent in advance; $9, adUlt at the door; $5, stUdent at the door.

Noxen Volunteer Fire Company (stUll road, noxen) • breakfast bUffet: March 17, 8 a.M.-1 p.M. $8, adUlts; $4, children 12 years of age and Under.

The Osterhout Free Library (71 s. franklin st., wilkes-barre, www.osterhoUt.info, 570.821.1959) • teen tech week: March 10-16 • one More row knit & crochet groUp: March 16, 20, 10:30 a.M.noon.

Send your listings to WBWnews@ civitasmedia.com, 90 E. Market St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 18703, or fax to 570.831.7375. Deadline is Mondays at 2 p.m. Print listings occur up until three weeks from publication date.

• internet safety prograM: March 13, 6 p.M. • learn to Use facebook or twitter: March 14, 6-7 p.M. • socrates café discUssion groUp: March 14, 6:30-8 p.M. • elMo and sUper grover visit the library: March 14, 1:30 and 2 p.M. in the reading rooM. call to register for one of hte tiMes. • franklin street sleUths: March 21, 6:30 p.M. Penn State Wilkes-Barre (rte. 115, lehMan, 570.675.2171, wb.psU.edU) • spring filM and discUssion series – “the UnconQUerable hUMan spirit: five degrees of diversity:” thUrsdays, March 14-april 18, 7 p.M., r/c wilkes-barre Movies 14 (24 e. northaMpton st., wilkes-barre) the regal rooM (216 lackawanna ave., olyphant, 570.489.1901) • st. patty’s day party: March 15, doors 5:45, bUffet 6-7 p.M. cash bar. $20. reservations reQUired: 570.489.1901 or fax 570.489.2692. live entertainMent by Joe stanky & the cadets.

Robert Dale Chorale (570.586.3921, robertdalechorale. org) • 28th annUal nepa bach festival: March 16-17. $15; $12, seniors

and wvia MeMbers; $7, stUdents. for More inforMation, to reserve tickets, or to order a copy of the chorale’s latest cd, contact the chorale office at 570.871-0350 or visit www.robertdalechorale.org.

Friends of Salt Springs Park (po box 541, Montrose. 570.967.7275, info@friendsofsaltspringspark. org.)

• tree prUning class: March 23, 9 a.M. $5, MeMbers; $15, non-MeMbers.

• fUll Moon hike: March 27, tiMe tba. st. JUde school (422 s. MoUntain boUlevard, MoUntain top) • spring fling craft and vendor fair: March 23, 10 a.M.-4 p.M. scranton cUltUral center (420 n. washington ave., scranton, 570.346.7369, scrantoncUltUralcenter.org) • Up and coMing coMedy series featUring howard g, lUke thayer, and Janice gaMbo: March 16, 8 p.M., cocktail and MUsic hoUr 7 p.M. $16. scranton MoMs clUb (info@echoes. net) • annUal fUndraiser craft show: March 16, 10 a.M.-3 p.M., greater scranton yMca (dUnMore).

Waggin’ Tails Pet Rescue (waggintailsrescUe.coM, inforMation@waggintailsrescUe.coM, 570.992.4185) • easter bUnny photos: March 23, 11 a.M.-3 p.M., pet sUpplies plUs (101 pocono coMMons, roUte 611, stroUdsbUrg) Waverly Community House (1115 n. abington rd., waverly, waverlycoMM.org) • children’s etiQUette classes: March 16, 11 a.M.-1 p.M., class 1: “pass the peas, please,” ages 4 to 7; 2-4 p.M., class 2: “dining boot caMp for kids,” ages 8 to 14. $25 per stUdent, per class.

• bUnny breakfast and easter egg hUnt: March 23, 10 a.M. $10 per person; free, children Under the age of 3. tickets MUst be pUrchased in advance.

• etiQUette classes: March 16, 11 a.M.-1 p.M., ages 4 to 7; 2-4 p.M., ages 8-14.

Wayne County Builders Association (www.waynecoUntybUilders.coM ) • lego bUilding contest: april 27 at the wbca hoMe and garden festival, ladore lodge caMp retreat and conference center (wayMart). pre-registration reQUired, 40 spots available, by april 1.

Wilkes University (84 w. soUth st, wilkes-barre, 1.800. wilkes.U, wilkes.edU) • cyberbUllying: a crisis in oUr schools with speaker Jane holter, trainer in the attorney general’s office, harrisbUrg: March 18, 4:30 p.M., Marts 214.

• 65th annUal lUzerne coUnty coUncil of teachers of MatheMatics (lcctM) contest: april 6, 9 a.M., rite aid aUditoriUM in the stark learning center. high school JUniors and seniors froM lUzerne

coUnty high schools and tUnkhannock high school are eligible to coMpete. the JUnior and senior division each have a MaxiMUM liMit of 10 stUdents per division per school. $5 per stUdent.

• allan haMilton dickson spring writers series: 7 p.M., kirby salon.

March 18, Jeff Mock and Margot schilpp. wyoMing coUnty chaMber of coMMerce • edUcational lUncheon featUring george stark, director of external affairs at cabot oil & gas corporation: March 13, 11:45 a.M.-1 p.M., twig’s café (1 e. tioga st., tUnkhannock).

• bi- annUal legislative breakfast: March 27, 8-9:30 a.M., shadowbrook inn and resort (201 resort lane,tUnkhannock). free, wyccc MeMbers; $10, non-MeMbers. for reservations or More inforMation, contact deborah at 570.875.8325 or by e-Mail at deborah@wyccc.coM. Wyoming Valley Dog Squad Troop no. 221 (www.dogscoUts.org. phyllis, troop leader: phyllis@ thebarkingbasket.coMor liza, secretary/treasUrer:sewcrazy@epix. net) egg hUnt for dogs: March 24, 1-5 p.M., hollenback dog park (1050 washington st., wilkes-barre).

LOCAL HISTORY Eckley Miners’ Village (located nine Miles east of hazleton, JUst off roUte 940; 570.636.2070; www.eckleyMiners. org) Electric City Trolley Museum and Coal Mine Tour: cliff street, scranton (570.963.6590 Everhart Museum: 1901 MUlberry st., scranton, 570.346.7186, www.everhart-MUseUM.org The Houdini Museum: 1433 n. Main ave., scranton. info: scrantonghosttoUrs.coM. 570.383.1821.

Lackawanna Historical Society: the catlin hoUse, 232 Monroe avenUe, scranton, 570.344.3841.

• gallery talk and workshop with artist claire MarcUs: april 6, 2 p.M. pennsylvania’s anthracite heritage MUseUM: Mcdade park, scranton: 570.963.4804, www.phMc.state. pa.Ust. Scranton Iron Furnaces: 159 cedar ave., scranton, www.anthraciteMUseUM.org. 570.963.4804. st. ann’s national basilica shrine and Monastery: scranton, 570.347.5691.

Steamtown National Historic Site: i-81 to exit 53, scranton: 570.340.5200 or 888.693.9391, www. nps.gov/stea.

Tripp House: 1011 n. Main ave., scranton: 570.961.3317.

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THE GREEN MACHINE

By Sara Pokorny

Weekender Staff Writer

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f you’re reading this, you’ve made it through the annual slopfest that’s the Scranton St. Patrick’s Parade – congratulations! Now, here’s the real challenge: are you ready to do it all over again?

For the past several years, the Wilkes-Barre St. Patrick’s Parade has fallen on the Sunday immediately after the Scranton

celebration, making it a little tough for those who utilize such events for drinking to do just that. (Not to knock the actual parades themselves, as they are pretty spectacular and an honored tradition.)

This year, things have changed with the movement of the Wilkes-Barre parade to an entirely different weekend, allowing Patty’s partygoers to celebrate two Saturdays in a row, and it’s even closer to the actual holiday than normal. W

Photo by Amanda Dittmar Kegs and eggs are just one way Wilkes-Barre gets an early start on the St. Patrick’s Day festivities.

PARADE PREPARATION

By Rich Howells Weekender Editor

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f there is one thing Northeast Pa. loves, it’s a parade.

Scranton’s St. Patrick’s Parade is one of the largest in the country, but Wilkes-Barre has also provided locals with another opportunity to celebrate their Irish heritage and party all day for the last 32 years.

This year, coordinators moved the festivities from the Sunday after Scranton’s to the following Saturday, March 16, causing no direct competition while saving

the city money.

“This year, the move was made from Sunday back to Saturday mainly because of how St. Patrick’s Day fell. We could have a parade on the following Saturday without missing the holiday, and mainly for financial reasons, it was cheaper for us to have the parade on Saturday and pay time-and-a-half rates versus double-time rates for police, (emergency services), (Department of Public Works), and other governmental personnel needed to pull off the event,” Drew McLaughlin, administrative coordinator

for the city of Wilkes-Barre, explained.

“It costs tens of thousands of dollars to put on the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. It has enormous economic benefits to the city; it has great benefits in terms of showcasing the city for the community as a whole, but there is a cost associated with it, and currently, every community is struggling financially.”

McLaughlin credits Special Events Coordinator Lore Majikes, a “one-person show,” for taking on this monumental task, which includes months of planning that starts as

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The Hooley Boys will play Irish Folk music at 1 p.m. at the reviewing stand, and entertainment throughout the day includes Three Imaginary Boys, the Wyoming Valley Pipe & Drum Band; the Coughlin, G.A.R. and E.L. Meyers marching bands; the Avalon String Band, the Kerry Dancers, the Scoil Rince na Connemara dancers, the David Blight School of Dance, and more.

One new attraction on Public Square will be a restored Stegmaier beer delivery truck from 1938 provided by The Lion Brewery; the brewery’s Lion will join other mascots in attendance, like Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton Penguins’ Tux and the Phillie Phanatic.

McLaughlin said the city generally attracts around 20,000 people, but with this year’s parade being held on a Saturday, they expect attendance to be even higher this year.

“I grew up in Philadelphia, so it’s always a treat to have the Phillie Phanatic come to Wilkes-Barre. The kids usually get a big kick out of it, so that’s always a personal favorite of mine,” he shared.

“It’s a big day for all; it’s a long day, so we’ll have a lot of people in the city starting in the early morning going into the night.” W

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Photo by Pete G. Wilcox/Times Leader Members of the Irem Patrol ride motorized Coleman coolers during last year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Wilkes-Barre.

early as the fall, registering entertainment, closing streets, organizing security, and the “heaviest” chore – soliciting sponsorships from area organizations and private businesses to raise the necessary capital.

“It’s a colossal logistical enterprise, but it’s a well-tuned machine at this point. It’s our 33rd annual parade; it’s the ninth or tenth parade since Mayor (Thomas) Leighton has been in office with this staff handling it. It’s a lot of work, but it’s well-conditioned all at the same time,” he said.

The parade begins at 2 p.m., starting at the intersection of South Main and South Streets, continuing down South Main to Public Square, past the F.M. Kirby Center, and ending at the intersection of North Main and Union Streets.

While having a few pints will always be a part of any St. Patrick’s Day celebration, McLaughlin said Wilkes-Barre focuses on creating a more kid-friendly, family-oriented atmosphere, and this year’s activities reflect that. Following the 9 a.m. kickoff of the Second Annual Renal Race, which benefits kidney cancer research, story time will be held at 11 a.m. at the Barnes & Noble (7 S. Main St.), and children can receive Just Plain Crazy Face Art starting at noon on Public Square (for $5 per child).

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hey say breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so why not pair it with some booze to make it that much better?

“Kegs and eggs” is an early morning practice that spans many locations and events besides St. Patty’s Day, a time when it’s perfectly acceptable to be up at 7 a.m. with a beer in hand and fork full of scrambled eggs in the other.

It’s a tradition for Beer Boys (176 N. Washington St., WilkesBarre), which has been feeding the early rising masses since 2000. The free breakfast begins at 7 a.m., accompanied by beer specials, and, yes, it’s exactly what you would expect.

“We really do put eggs out,” said Beer Boys owner Ryan Zych with a laugh. “People ask if there are really eggs and, I promise you, there are, along

with some other breakfast favorites.”

Zych can remember a time when the parades weren’t backto-back, and he is excited to return to it.

“It was difficult to continue the tradition with kegs and eggs when the parade was on Sunday, but we always kept it alive somehow.”

“I’m thrilled to death that they moved it back to Saturday and opposite Scranton. For those that woke up with a vicious hangover and a light wallet after Scranton, well, it gives them a week to prepare for what I’ve heard everyone calling ‘Round Two.’” A hearty meal is the perfect way to start the second bout.

“It’s become something that people ask for and look forward to,” Zych said, “and we do, too.

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Just kidding. But, the Wyoming Valley Pipe & Drum Band is no joke. The group formed about four years ago with one mission in mind: bringing traditional Irish and Scottish music to the heart of Luzerne County, and, of course, having a bloody good time while doing it.

After playing the Saint Patrick’s Parade in Scranton this past Saturday, the band will have a week to recuperate before they march in the Wilkes-Barre parade on March 16, a tradition for the past four years.

Since forming, they have kept all of the original members, including some firemen, policemen, and blue collar workers. In a recent interview with The Weekender, Butch Modzelewski, a bagpipe player in the band, talked about the incredible feeling he gets when marching in the parades.

“Its exciting because you’ve

got all those people out there cheering you on. People love the bagpipe bands. It’s like you’re in the Indy 500. You’re marching down the street with all those kids and grown-ups and they’re loving it. It sends a chill up you.”

Along with parades, the band plays at many different types of events, including weddings, funerals, parties, and even ice rinks during hockey games.

Practicing each week for the entire year ensures that the group is up to par when performing their songs.

When parades come to town, they even have extra practices for marching.

“You have to practice, and you have to keep up with your songs. If you didn’t practice, you wouldn’t be good enough,” Modzelewski said.

Barhopping is something that has become a tradition for the Wyoming Valley natives.

In addition to each parade

they play, they also hit five to seven bars before and after the festivities. Playing one-hour sets at each bar, the group provides many opportunities for people to come out and celebrate with them.

This year, the group will be hitting several spots in WilkesBarre after the parade, including the Susquehanna Ale House (10 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre), Senunas’ Bar & Grill (133 N. Main St., WilkesBarre), Kelsey’s Restaurant (1 N. Main St., Ashley), The Riverside Café (187 Old River Rd., WilkesBarre), Cork Bar and Restaurant (463 Madison St., WilkesBarre), and Two G’s Restaurant (3381 Bear Creek Blvd., Bear Creek Twp.). The rest of their schedule can be found at wyomingvalleypipeanddrum. com.

“We’re a street band. We go out and have fun,” Modzelewski emphasized. “We love playing in the Scranton parade, and we love playing in the Wilkes-Barre parade.” W

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one of the tracks. “Can’t Stop” made the album, due out March 26.

HACKERS TURN ATTENTION FROM JAY-Z TO MICHELLE OBAMA An Internet hacker is reminding everyone this week that no matter how famous you are, your personal information can be compromised on the World Wide Web. A website believed to be operated or hosted out of Russia is alleging to have gone public with personal information on celebrities and political figures alike, including First Lady Michelle Obama.

TMZ.com first reported of the page’s existence Monday. Initially, 12 public figures were singled out.

Credit reports, Social Security numbers, and phone numbers are published that allegedly belong to such stars as Jay-Z, Beyonce, and Kim Kardashian. Varying levels of information are also available about public figures, including Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder.

A Los Angeles Police Department source confirmed to the Daily News that Police Chief Charlie Beck’s info was posted to the page. The FBI would only confirm that the agency knew of the website’s existence.

Late Monday night into Tuesday morning, the list of targets grew to include Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, pro wrestler Hulk Hogan, and Michelle Obama.

Little is known publicly about the website. The “.su” suffix suggests it may emanate from Russia; the site’s Twitter page is written in Russian. We will link to neither on our page.

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Over Grammy weekend, OneRepublic lead singer Ryan Tedder noted that the band’s third studio album, “Native,” was originally scheduled for a November 2012 release. When Tedder and his bandmates stopped by the studio recently, he cited a couple reasons for the delay, including the influence of Swedish House Mafia on the record.

“It was just like overwhelming because I saw them at Coachella; they were the best performer that whole weekend,” Tedder told me.

“Radiohead is one of my favorite bands of all time, but I gotta say like…Black Keys, Bon Iver, Kasabian…none of them held a torch in my opinion to the Swedish House Mafia set.”

Despite Tedder describing himself as “not a card-carrying electronic music fan,” the experience directly inspired the single “If I Lose Myself,” along with the general tempo of “Native.”

“We’re not going to all of the sudden, three years after the fact, jump ship and be like, ‘Oh! This is popular now. Let’s go do this!’” he explained. “That’s lame.

You’ve got a handful of bands who did jump ship and just went pure electronic…and we’re the furthest from that. And then you have other acts who kind of batted around with electronic, tried to do like a “dance” record, and it kind of missed the mark. So we were like, ‘Let’s do it. Let’s hit the nail on the head. And let’s capture that energy but still keep it sounding organic and like a band.’”

OneRepublic also decided to keep two tracks at the last minute – songs that Tedder almost gave away to other artists. The band called in Jeff Bhasker, who worked on the latest masterpieces for fun. and Kanye West, to finish

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any of us are all too familiar with the combined symptoms of a pounding head, sore muscles, and the feeling of an empty stomach. It’s a hangover, and it sucks.

If you’re still suffering from last weekend’s celebration (really, have you been drinking all this time?) or are looking for a way to make the day after the Wilkes-Barre parade as pleasant as possible, you’re going to want to take a look at some of these hangover cures, many of which have been suggested to us by our readers.

Water. It’s honestly that simple. You can go about this by chugging a glass or two before bed, downing it during the day of your hangover, or, if you’re smart and disciplined, alternating your booze with water as you drink. Dehydration is the root of all evil hangovers, so hydrating as much as possible is guaranteed to make you feel better.

“Vitamin B, water, and pickles.” –Matt Mang, Scranton. Pickles might sound strange, but they could help.

Pickle juice is pretty much vinegar, water, and sodium, the latter of which is an electrolyte

that’s generally lost during excessive drinking and constant bathroom breaks, which leads to dehydration. Chugging some pickle juice and chomping on dills are a way to alleviate hangover pain.

“Best trick I ever learned was to drink two glasses of Pedialyte before bed along with two Aleve and a glass of water in the morning.”

–Keith Gilligan, Wyoming.

Another odd one but, yes, this cure actually works to lessen the horrible day-afterdrinking feeling. Again, this is because it’s designed to combat dehydration, which is the reason you feel so horrible after downing so much booze.

Exercise. We know, we know, the last thing you want to do is get off the couch, but we promise you that if you do, you’ll feel a little bit better.

We’re not saying to go full P90X here – just take a walk.

Alcohol is a depressant, slowing brain activity and the release of endorphins, hormones that make you feel better. Moving your body will help release these hormones, giving you a sunnier outlook on that hangover gloom.

“Dump a pack of brewer’s yeast (Vitamin B12) in a bottle of Gatorade and chug it down before bed.” –Chuck Yarmey, Wyoming.

Vitamin B is a wonderful way to combat the effects of drinking, no matter what form you take it in. Most say to do this prior to the start of chugging competitions, though, so you’ve got to think ahead on this one. W

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here are plenty of places along the parade route and the surrounding area that will be open the day of the parade, and we’ve got a list for you.

• Arena Bar & Grill, 380 Coal St., Wilkes-Barre • Bart and Urby’s, 119 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre • Beer Boys, 176 N. Washington St., Wilkes-Barre • Bottlenecks Saloon and Eatery, 3 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre • Carey’s Pub, 147 Division St., Kingston • Donahue’s Hourglass Bar, 215 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre • Frog Pond Pub & Pizzeria, 131 Coal St., Wilkes-Barre

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Hops & Barleys, 131 Main St., Luzerne Keats Pub, 115 Bowman St., Wilkes-Barre Liam’s Place, 760 N. Washington St., Wilkes-Barre O’Sullivan’s Pub, 41 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre The Oasis Grill at the Ramada Inn, 20 Public Square, Wilkes-Barre Outsiders Saloon, 650 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre Overpour, 380 Coal St., Wilkes-Barre El Rincon Latino, 69 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre River Grille, 670 N. River St., Plains

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The Riverside Café, 187 Old River Road, Wilkes-Barre River Street Jazz Café, 667 N. River St., Plains Rodano’s, 53 Public Square, Wilkes-Barre Senunas’ Bar & Grill, 133 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre Stan’s Café, 107 Hillside St., WilkesBarre Susquehanna Ale House and Hardware Bar, 12 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre Uptown II, 215 N. River St., Wilkes-Barre Vesuvio’s Pizzeria and Ristorante, 111 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre W

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Sometimes you march behind horses and wonder what you might step in.

Sometimes you march in front of fire engines and skedaddle when those vehicles are called to an emergency.

And sometimes your souvenir from a St. Patrick’s Day Parade makes people wonder if you’ve been kissed by a leprechaun.

“I guess I did feel kind of lucky,” 18-year-old Miranda Warunek of Pittston said with a laugh, remembering how a green sticker she sported on her face one sunny parade day resulted in a tan line shaped like a perfectw shamrock.

“It lasted for a couple days. I was in about sixth grade.”

Those are just a few of the memories Warunek and her sister Letitia, 20, shared as they waited their turn to practice jigs and reels with the Emerald Isle Step Dancers in a rehearsal room in Pittston.

The group, whose members range from wee colleens through grown lasses, danced their way through the streets of Scranton and Jim Thorpe last weekend and will perform in New York City on March 16.

They’ve dedicated their appearance in New York’s parade to the memory of Kevin Nelson, the late grandfather of three young dancers, Kit, Fiona and Lizzy Neville.

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Director Jennifer Woss gives the Emerald Isle Step Dancers some advice.

The girls’ grandfather was a co-director of the big parade in the Big Apple, Emerald Isle director Jennifer Woss explained.

And, if they weren’t going to be marching and dancing in New York, Woss said, the local group would have enjoyed appearing in the Wilkes-Barre parade, which is also scheduled for March 16.

When the parades start, spectators will have a chance to admire floats, recognize friends, celebrate the steady approach of spring, and experience a dose of Celtic culture.

Really, how often do you have the chance to hear bagpipes? Or to watch the flashing feet of Irish dancers?

“It’s a great opportunity to show the community what we’ve been practicing,” Letitia Warunek said.

“We do this all year long.”

their hands a little dirty?

Disney cleaned house when digital took over, but this wasn’t really necessary. Look at the 2012 short “Paperman,” which just earned an Oscar – it’s hand-drawn, but with digital technology. The two mediums can meet halfway, though what is left behind other than a “making of” featurette on a DVD? You can hang those old animation cells and painted backgrounds in museums, but you can’t touch or hold a 3D model on a screen. It’s faster and more convenient for me to express this same thought verbally into a webcam, but I’m doing so in print because I believe in the format, not just the idea.

This leads me to Marvel Comics’ announcement that it would temporarily offer 700 of its No. 1w issues free through ComiXology, the largest online distributor of digital comic books, in an attempt to attract new readers and possibly coerce print fans to give the medium a try. Within hours, the servers crashed as they tried to meet demand, forcing them to extend the promotion by e-mailing customers when everything is back online. Some might call this an overwhelming success for Marvel, which is owned by Disney, but again, the Mouse is so eager to embrace the next big thing that it fails to see how off-putting this “deal” really is for the rest of us.

First of all, if you’re giving it away, that’s usually an indication of its value. There is no collectability in digital comics because there is nothing special or limited in a file on your computer or tablet. Half the fun of collecting is in the hunt and in displaying them – now all it takes is a download. Sure, this makes reading convenient, but what happens when your computer

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or hard drive crashes or breaks?

With ComiXology, you can redownload your purchases for no additional cost, but what if it’s on a day like this week, when the servers are down? I can access my books any time by simply walking over to my shelf.

But I digress – the heart of the matter isn’t my penchant for the smell of ink and old paper, or even for tangible pages, but for the art contained within. It’s bad enough that comics are colored digitally now – how long will it be before they’re all drawn digitally too? This is already occurring now, though most of the artists I know still use pencils, inks, and paper, scanning their work to be digitized later. How long will it be before this technique is stamped out? How long will it be before Disney cleans house again?

Marvel’s Augmented Reality app already allows readers to scan comics for additional content, which is admittedly pretty neat, and with the continued growth of motion comics and Project Gamma, which will apparently add music and other features as someone flips through the story, it seems like they’re so quick to integrate comics with other mediums that they ignore the simple pleasures of quietly curling up with a good story in a good book.

I love animated and film adaptations of those stories, but when I read a comic, I just want to read a comic. Books lose those finer details on the big screen, so why would this be any different? I can see an author or artist’s intent as I study each panel of their work – will those messages be the same when someone animates over them, changing the pacing or adding music? “Too many cooks,” as they say, and this broth is getting a bit too spicy for my taste.

To be clear, I’m not some technology curmudgeon who’s simply angry that he’s behind the times; I’m just a guy who likes wearing a watch despite the fact that my phone tells the time. Art comes in many forms, but the greatest art I’ve ever seen was hung on a wall, not pulled up on a screen – and I have yet to see a frame burn out.

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“The times, they are a-changin.’”

Bob, you couldn’t be more right, though in this case, I’m not really sure if it’s for the better.

Mr. Dylan was talking about social change, of course, but for our purposes, let’s focus on shifts in artistry that have me a bit worried.

These changes can found throughout The Walt Disney Company, the creators of corporate magic that everyone seems to love or hate with equal passion. (I’m in the middle somewhere, for the record.) Chairman and CEO Bob Iger admitted at a recent shareholders’ meeting that they have no plans to create a 2D or hand-drawn film in the foreseeable future, the very medium that gave birth to the company in the first place.

It’s not surprising, but it is disheartening. “The Princess and the Frog” was praised by critics as audiences alike, but $267 million doesn’t smell as sweet as “Wreck-It Ralph’s” $435 million or “Brave’s” $535 million, both 3D, computer-animated movies. I think the subject matter more than the animation style was to blame here, but you can’t talk finer details with numbers people, so why bother?

Because it’s an art form worth preserving. If hand-drawn animation was so inferior, then why do all the classics in Disney’s vault still sell millions every time they’re re-released? Can the same be said for movies like “The Wild” and “Chicken Little,” rotting in discount bins? Pixar’s output has been prolific and, by and large, brilliant (“Cars” aside, of course), so I cannot and will not say that computer animation is not an art form in its own right that requires time and talent, but does it have to be at the cost of animators who prefer getting

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American Wicca Study Group (WWW.amerICanWICCa.org) • “the pagan poW WoW:” thIrd saturday of every month, 7 p.m., the garb WenCh, 13 n. maIn st., ashley.

• tarot readIngs by JamIe dana by appoIntment, 570.235.0741.

Arts YOUniverse (47 n. franKlIn st., WIlKes-barre, 570.970.2787, WWW.artsyounIverse.

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Awakenings Yoga (570.472.3272) • prIvate yoga InstruCtIon W/ CertIfIed senIor InstruCtor of hImalayan InstItute. 24 years experIenCe. learn seCrets of hImalayan masters. lessons InClude asana, pranayama, medItatIon, relaxatIon, ayruveda, holIstIC nutrItIon, tantra. $75/sessIon Balance Ultimate Fitness (belladaro prof bldg, 570.862.2840) • early mornIng fItness bootCamp: tues./thurs., 6:30 a.m.-7:30 a.m., sat, 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m., $15 or 12 Classes for $150.

Balance Yoga and Wellness (900 rutter ave., 2nd floor, forty fort 570.714.2777, balanCeyogastudIo.net, balanCeyogaWellness@gmaIl.Com) • pole fItness: frI., 5:30 p.m. (begInner); 7 p.m. (IntermedIate). sat., 1:30 p.m. (all levels); 3:15 p.m. (advanCed).

Bellas Yoga Studio (650 boulevard ave., dICKson CIty, 570.307.5000, WWW.bellasyoga.

Com, Info@bellasyoga.Com) all WorKshops $15, pre-regIstratIon suggested.

• sun. Class: 10-11:15 a.m. features alternatIng vInyasa style yoga W/ yoga fusIon.

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CLASSES Academy of Northern Martial Arts (79 n. maIn st., pIttston) tradItIonal Kung fu & san shou. for health and defense. adult & ChIldren’s Classes, mon.-thurs., sat. fIrst Class free.

WalK-Ins WelCome, Call 371.9919, 817.2161 for Info.

Adult Kung Fu (Kung fu & taI ChI Center, WIlKesbarre: 570.829.2707) • ongoIng Classes. tues./thurs., 6:30 p.m. study of ChInese martIal art open hand, Weapons sets. mon., Wed., 6:30 p.m. Covers ChInese style theorIes, ConCepts, applICatIons. “sport” fIghtIng ConCepts explaIned, praCtICed. Aikido of Scranton, Inc. (1627 n. maIn ave., sCranton, 570.963.0500) • self-defense Class taught by aIKIdo master ven senseI, every mon. & Wed., 7-9 p.m. $10.

• tradItIonal Weapons Class, thurs., 7-9 p.m. $10.

Back Mountain Martial Arts Center & Mountaintop Karate Center (baCK mountaIn (4 Carr ave., 570.675.9535) or mountaIn top (312 s. mountaIn blvd., 466.6474). WWW. fudoshInKaI1.Com) • InstruCtIon In tradItIonal Karate, JuJutsu, sIvananda yoga (baCK mountaIn): tues., Wed., thurs., 4:30-9 p.m., sat., 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. (mountaIntop Karate Center mon., Weds., frI., 4:309 p.m.

• InstruCtIon In tradItIonal Karate, JuJutsu, sIvananda yoga (mountaIntop): mon., Wed., frI., 4:30-9 p.m.

Beauty Lies Within School of Pole Dance (32 forrest st., WIlKes-barre, 570.793.5757, sl.beautylIesWIthIn@ gmaIl.Com). hours by appoIntment.

Call or e-maIl for detaIls. Dance Contours (201 bear CreeK blvd., WIlKes-barre, 570.208.0152, WWW.danCeContours.

Com) • adult Classes: ballet, tap, lyrICal, CardIosalsa, ballroom danCe. • ChIldren/teen Classes: ballet, tap, CheerdanCe, hIpteCh Jazz, a form of danCe blendIng basIC Jazz teChnIque WIth styles of street danCe, hIp hop.

• zumba Classes for adults: tues., 6 p.m., sat., 10 a.m. fIrst Class free.

• adult ballet: sat. morn.

Danko’s Core Wrestling Strength Training Camp (danKosallamerICanfItness.Com) • four sessIons/WeeK, features tWo ClInICs, tWo Core strength.

4 sessIons/WeeK. InCrease poWer, speed, agIlIty. group dIsCounts, CoaChes, teams, Clubs, free stuff.

vIsIt WebsIte or Call larry danKo at 570.825.5989 for Info.

Downtown Arts at Arts YOUniverse (47 n. franKlIn st., WIlKes-barre, 570.970.2787, WWW.artsyounIverse.

Com) • tradItIonal egyptIan belly danCe: Wed., begInners 6-7 p.m.; IntermedIate 7-8 p.m. IntermedIate. $10. Call 343.2033 for Info.

• trIbal fusIon danCe: thurs., begInners 6-7 p.m.; IntermedIate 7-8 p.m. $10. Call 836.7399 for Info.

• Cabaret WIth helena: sat., 4:30 p.m. pre-regIstratIon requIred. Call 553.2117 for Info.

• afrICan danCe: Wed. & sun., 1 p.m. tradItIonal afrICan moves WIth Jazz and hIp-hop. $10, regIstratIon requIred, Call 212.9644 or vIsIt hIpbodysoul.Com for Info.

Downtown Dojo Karate Academy (84 s. maIn st., WIlKes-barre, 570.262.1778) offerIng Classes In tradItIonal Karate, Weapons, self defense. mon-thurs., 5:30-8:45 p.m.; sat., 9 a.m.-noon.

• zumba Classes: tues., thurs., 7-8 p.m.; sat., 12:30-1:30 p.m. $5/Class.

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Robbie Vanderveken | Special to the Weekender

A welcome return to the ‘Tomb’ One of the most classic series stranded on an island. With limited from the early days of the Playresources and instinct, Lara must station has been reborn: “Tomb learn how to survive on her own Raider,” for the first time, delivers and rescue her friends. an origin story for iconic character The beginning of the game is Lara Croft. very scripted with action seWhen the original “Tomb Raidquences, quick time events, and er” came out in 1996, it was little cutscenes, but after about an hour, more then a run and gun action the game opens up and becomes game staring a busty girl who liked more like an open world survival to jump around and kill dinosaurs. action game with some light RPG Over the years, Lara has grown elements mixed in. up and changed appearance many Character development is probtimes. The original games where ably the way the game shines fun, but after a while, jumping most. It does an incredible job of around exploring tombs became a showing Lara turn into the women bit stale; there have been several she is in the other games. The attempts at reviving the series, gameplay is spot on, the shooting with limited results. mechanics work well, the moveThe new ment has lost Upcoming game releases: “Tomb Raidits blockiness • March 12: ‘God of War: Ascension’ er” is a big from previous • March 12: ‘Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2’ deal because it entries, and • March 18: ‘LEGO City: Undercover’ is a fresh start, the graphics • March 19: ‘Gears of War: a new look, a are downright Judgment’ new story, and breathtaking. a new Lara.

At pretty much When this game was first shown at every set piece, you want to stop E3, it looked incredible, and one and take in the view. of the reasons is the new Lara – Hunting, scavenging, solving she looks more like a believable puzzles, and fighting will increase person and not just an overt sex Lara’s XP, which will allow you symbol. She has dimensions that to increase her skills and upgrade could actually exist, and the world equipment, making her more looks real and inviting. proficient at combat and giving her The new “Tomb Raider” is not an amazing arsenal of weapons. a retelling of the story of the first To increase your abilities, you game – it’s a gritty new tale of have to hunt animals; however, Lara growing from a scared young Lara doesn’t have a hunger meter, girl to the savvy, battle-hardened which is a bit disappointing. woman we have known up until Hunting only gives you XP, so now. Lara is fresh out of collage it feels a bit shallow. Combat is and off on her first adventure with pretty satisfying and varied – you a film crew shooting a documencan have a firefight, sneak up and tary; there is a storm, and Lara and perform stealth kills, or sneak by her friends get shipwrecked and undetected; it’s your choice.

‘Tomb Raider’ System: PS3, Xbox 360, PC Genre: Action Rating: M for Mature Publisher: Square Enix Developers: Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Studios - Montreal

The island is an amazing and dangerous environment, from wild animals, unpredictable weather, and even crazy cultists. There are many places to explore, including optional tombs you can explore, puzzles you can solve, and things you can climb. The climbing mechanics feel very natural and easy to use, and it can pretty exciting to make a jump to a far away ledge.

In addition to the excellent story mode, there’s an unremarkable multiplayer component. There are four modes, all of which are pretty typical: deathmatch, free for all, and two modes in which teams score points by completing basic objectives. The multiplayer mode is OK, but it is pretty forgettable.

“Tomb Raider” is an excellent game, though, and is better then the old games in pretty much every way. It has amazing graphics, polished controls, and a fantastic story. It combines elements of “Uncharted,” “Far Cry,” and “Assassin’s Creed” in good ways, while retaining the feel of “Tomb Raider.” I know it’s early, but this could be a contender for game of the year.

-Robbie Vanderveken is the digital operations specialist at The Times Leader. E-mail him at rvanderveken @timesleader.com.

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Beer: Irish Dry Stout Brewer: Brooklyn Brewery Style: Irish Dry Stout ABV: 4.70%

overly flavorful, as it will quickly become overpowered.

Is it worth trying? Yes, while there are certainly better stouts out there for consuming, Brooklyn’s offering brings a very flavorful session beer to the table.

The complexities are subtle, but they are present, and this is certainly an easy drinking beer for those new or old to the craft beer market. If you are a lover of stouts, then you will surely want to try Brooklyn’s Irish Dry Stout, so be sure to get some and enjoy all the St. Patrick’s Day festivities that seemingly last the entire month of March in our area!

Sláinte!

Rating: W W W W Where can I get it? Currently available in bottles at Krugel’s Georgetown Deli & Beer, Wilkes-Barre; Wegmans, Dickson City, and J & H Beer, Wilkes-Barre.

Remember, enjoy responsibly!

Cheers!

-Derek Warren is a beer expert, avid homebrewer, and beer historian. Derek can be reached at NEPABeerGeek@gmail.com.

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Description: Brooklyn’s Irish Dry Stout pours a pitch black color with barely any head, but what does come through is a beautiful tan color. The scents that are emitted from this stout are that of coffee, chocolate, roasted malt, biscuit, and a slight earthiness from the hops, a very wonderful combination if I do say so myself. Upon the first sip, you will notice a slight smokiness from the malts, followed by a bitter coffee/chocolate flavor.

After swallowing, this beer leaves a lingering coffee like bitterness on the taste buds, but this beer is certainly dry, and the flavor does not last long. The taste is fairly complex and wonderful, but what this beer does lack is body. Stouts are typically very smooth, slightly carbonated, and full-bodied; however, this offering by Brooklyn Brewery is slightly on the thin side with a fairly high amount of carbonation. Nevertheless, do not get the wrong impression – this beer is still very drinkable and makes for a great session beer.

Food pairing: Irish stouts, of course, are perfect pair for all Irish fair, so if you are sitting down to a delicious corned beef and cabbage (or ham and cabbage, as is tradition in my family), shepherd’s pie, or even fish and chips, Brooklyn’s Irish Dry Stout is the perfect accompaniment. Also, if you are a seafood fanatic, then you have a perfect dinner partner in this beer; this Irish stout has the perfect amount of sweetness to match with such wonderful seafood dishes as mussels, lobster, crab, and even clams. The chocolate malt flavor is also present enough in this beer to match with some lighter chocolate desserts, but be sure not to match this beer with anything too

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tim Hlivia | Special to the Weekender

Facebook gets another facelift Facebook is at it again.

It has decided to try making some changes to the Facebook “Timeline” that it more or less forced upon users in the not-sodistant past.

Much grumbling and gnashing of teeth was had when Facebook released its Timeline update, and just when we were finally getting used to it, it’s thinking about changing it yet again.

The changes it’s decided to make aren’t terribly drastic.

It is streamlining the area immediately under the large Timeline image at the top of the page, removing the Maps, Follower, and Photo blocks and replacing them with much smaller text links.

It has decided to pull the “About” information below the profile photo down into the actual Timeline itself, and finally, it’s redesigned the upper nav bar.

Early adapters of Facebook’s Graph Search will find the new nav bar familiar – the search box hidden, the full Facebook logo reduced to an icon, and the message and friend request area have been moved to the right side of the page.

Facebook also revamped ads and linked stories to make them friendlier for businesses that use Facebook as a marketing tool.

All in all, it’s not a massive redesign – more of a Facebook Facelift, as it were.

But the latest round of changes have resurrected a question that’s always asked whenever social media companies do a redesign – why do they make changes so frequently, and why are people

forced into a specific layout?

It’s fairly easy to understand why they do periodic refreshes.

It keeps people engaged and prevents Facebook itself from becoming stale. I’d guess that this is the reason why Facebook has managed to hang on so much longer than MySpace.

As far as forcing everyone into a ubiquitous design – well, I’m sure it does a whole bunch of market research on how people use its software, ranging from unsuspecting test audiences to lab-based eye-tracking surveys.

It also likely has extremely accurate data on how people use its services – so it thinks that even if you don’t necessarily like the new design, you’re probably more likely to use it or even to use a specific feature in just the way it wants.

From a more pragmatic perspective, maybe Facebook doesn’t care. At this point, it’s so big that if you leave, it’s your loss from Facebook’s perspective. The Facebook folks have weathered the best shot Google could take at them, and they’re probably feeling pretty secure about now.

That said, they may decide not to make these changes in the near future, or they might take an entirely different approach. Either way, Facebook doesn’t seem to have much of a problem using the unsuspecting public as guinea pigs for its design team.

-Nick DeLorenzo is director of interactive and new media for The Times Leader. Email him at ndelorenzo@timesleader.com.

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It’s important to note that a comprehensive, long-term approach to fitness and nutrition is by far the best way to achieve your goals. However, you can make progress in a short amount of time. Here are some myths to avoid when trying to get maximal return on minimal time invested.

1. Doing cardiovascular “cardio” exercise is the only way to burn fat and get toned.

This has been the “go to” method for many years, but science has shown that it is not the most effective way. First, “cardio” is not an exercise; it’s an energy system. People typically use the word “cardio” to mean aerobic exercise and aerobic exercise. While it’s beneficial, it should not be your go-to exercise for fat reduction. It’s not the best use of your time, and what’s worse is that your body quickly adapts to it. It can be muscle wasting, which is the opposite of what you want to do.

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Call to register or simply show up at Leverage for 7:30 p.m.

Cost is $20.

2. Weight training makes you bulky.

This couldn’t be farther from the truth, and it is a very common myth amongst the female population. The truth is that weight training will change your body by adding muscle. First, additional muscle burns calories, and secondly, muscle is more dense and takes up less space than body fat.

By building more muscle, you are working on becoming leaner and will have a sleeker appearance.

3. You should target specific areas of fat on your body that you want to lose.

Spot reduction is not possible.

Instead of focusing on one area, focus on increasing your resting metabolic rate. This will increase your calorie expenditure overall.

If you gain 10 pounds of fat, you can’t control where it goes on your body. The same goes for fat loss; you can’t control from where it leaves your body. * For those following the nutrition plan from the column on Feb. 27, here is the first change to implement to ensure forward progress: Wednesday, March 13 marks the end of the two-week period.

Remove your starchy carbohydrates at breakfast and replace with vegetables or a small piece of fruit. An example of your “new” breakfast could be a veggie omelet made with two eggs and various vegetables. You may use egg whites as a substitute for the whole eggs.

-Tim Hlivia is the owner of Leverage Fitness Studio in Forty Fort.

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Irish mouths are smiling Booze and breakfast.

It’s all I’ve been thinking about, not only because of this week’s cover story, but due to the fact that it happened last Saturday and will probably occur again this Saturday thanks to back-to-back St. Patrick’s Day parade weekends.

When Pinterest gave me the opportunity to pair the two again, I just couldn’t stop myself.

Then when a recipe also popped up that imitates McDonald’s awesomely ridiculous Shamrock Shakes, I was sold. This week I bring to you a double dose of green to satisfy your every Irish need.

Irish style dirt cake is not only simple to make, it involves two of my favorite things: Bailey’s Irish Cream and Lucky Charms.

Beat together French vanilla yogurt, white chocolate pudding mix, and Bailey’s until it’s whippy and light. If this is a family-friendly recipe, use milk instead of Bailey’s.

Also, if you’d like to make this somewhat healthier, utilize sugarfree pudding mix and healthy yogurt. Or you don’t have to, like me, and you can just have a sugar attack when it’s all over. I swear the shakes stop after a couple of hours.

Skim off about a cup of the

cream mixture and set aside.

Melt white chocolate chips in the microwave (in 30-second bursts to avoid burning the hell out of the chocolate), then slowly pour the melted chocolate into the larger portion of the cream mixture and beat until mixed thoroughly. Tint this with green food coloring; I started off with two drops and went from there.

Grab some mini truffle cups (adorable, right?), spoon some whipped mixture into the bottom, top with Lucky Charms, spoon more green stuff on top of that, then top it all off with the white Irish cream mix you set aside earlier and a couple cereal marshmallows.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all of you, from a silly Polish girl who’s obviously been as Irish as possible over the past week thanks to some Guinness and Jameson.

IRISH STYLE DIRT CAKE Couresty of: quick-dish.tablespoon.com Ingredients: 2 six-ounce of cartons Yoplait French Vanilla Yogurt 1 one-ounce packet of sugar-free white chocolate pudding 1/2 cup of Bailey’s Irish Cream liqueur (or 1/4 cup of milk to be familyfriendly) 1 cup white chocolate chips, melted 1 1/2 cups Lucky Charms How-to: Beat together the yogurt, pudding mix, and Irish Cream until whippy and light. Set aside one cup of this mixture for later use.

In a small bowl, melt white chocolate chips in the microwave in 30-second bursts.

With your electric mixer turned on, slowly pour the melted chocolate chips into cream mixture until well-beaten. Tint with green food coloring.

Spoon several tablespoons of the green mixture into mini trifle cups, top with Lucky Charms, add more of the cream mixture, then top off with a thin layer of whipped topping and some Lucky Charms.

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Everyone wants the perfect pout; routine trips to the local plastic surgeon for fillers aren’t for everybody.

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You will also need a darker colored lip liner, a lighter matching colored lipstick, and lip gloss. Application is very quick, easy, and, of course, painless. First apply the lip plumper generously to your top and bottom lip; feel free to over line a little to help accentuate your cupid’s bow and to give you that extra pouty bottom lip. Leave the plumper on a few minutes until

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Paul Jamrozik, 63, was arrested in Upper Darby, Pa., in January and charged as the man who lured a 12-year-old boy into his home and, under the guise of pretend-podiatry, spritzed his feet with athlete’s-foot spray and tickled them before performing an exam of his ears and nose with medical equipment. When the kid asked to leave, according to the police report, Jamrozik withheld his shoes until he promised to bring his friends by the next day to be examined. such events as competitive pulling using only one’s ears or teeth.

“We do this for money, trophies, fame and respect,” one ear-puller told The Wall Street Journal in February. This year, in the fourday event in Punjab state, the 50,000 spectators could watch a teeth-lifter pull a 110-pound sack upward for about eight seconds and an ear-puller ease a car about 15 feet.

— Weird Japan: (1.) A generous local businessman recently graced the city of Okuizumo with funding for replicas of two Renaissance statues (“Venus de Milo” and Michelangelo’s “David”) for a public park.

Agence France-Presse reported in February that many residents, receiving little advance warning, expressed shock at the unveiling of “David” and demanded that he at least be given underpants. (2.)

Fax machines, almost obsolete in the U.S., are still central to many tech-savvy Japanese families and companies (who bought 1.7 million units last year alone), reported The New York Times in February. Families prefer faxes’ superiority to e-mail for warmly expressing Japan’s complex written language, and bureaucrats favor faxes’ preserving the imperative of paper flow.

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— The 14 guests at a jewelry party in Lake City, Fla., were initially incredulous that homeinvader Derek Lee, 24, meant to rob them, but when they saw that he was serious (by putting his gun to the head of one woman), the hostess went into action. “In the name of Jesus,” she shouted, “get out of my house now!” Then the guests chanted in unison, “Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!” over and over.

Lee, frightened or bewildered,

sprinted out the door emptyhanded and was later arrested.

— The president of the National Black Church Initiative told the Associated Press in January that its pastors are generally free to ordain new pastors as they wish, and that consequently Bishop Wayne Jackson of Detroit did nothing wrong in his ordination ceremony (which was surreptitiously video-recorded and uploaded to YouTube), even though it consisted of Jackson in robes, praying while lying on top of the new bishops, who were also praying. (The AP noted that Bishop Jackson had been the target of that’s-so-gay YouTube comments.)

— Yet Another Fatwa: Saudi cleric Sheikh Abdullah Daoud, in an interview in February on al-Majd TV, decreed that female babies should wear full-face veils (burkas) to help shield them from sexual advances. (According to a former judge at the Saudi Board of Grievances, Saudi authorities have issued standards for fatwas, thus urging people to ignore “unregulated” ones such as Skeikh Daoud’s.)

— In January, Lhokseumawe City, Indonesia, drafted new ordinances, including one that prohibits women from riding motorcycles with their legs straddling male drivers, since that would tend to “provoke” them. A proponent said the ban “honor(ed)” women “because they are delicate creatures.” Immediately, some authorities denounced the legislation, pointing out that riding “side saddle” is much more dangerous in cases of sudden swerves and collisions. As of press time, the mayor had not decided whether to implement the ordinance.

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— A frequent sight on Soweto, South Africa, streets recently is crowds of 12-to-15-year-old boys known as “izikhotane” (“boasters”) who hang out in their designer jeans, “shimmering silk shirts, bright pink and blue shoes, and white-straw, narrow-brimmed fedoras,” according to a February BBC News dispatch. Flashing wads of cash begged from beleaguered parents, hundreds may amass, playing loud music and sometimes even trashing their fancy clothes as if to feign an indifference to wealth. Since many izikhotanes’ families are working-class survivors of apartheid, they are mostly ashamed of their kids’ behavior. “This isn’t what we struggled for,” lamented one parent. But, protested a peerpressured boaster, “(Y)ou must dress like this, even if you live in a shack.”

— India’s annual “Rural Olympics” might be the cultural equivalent of several Southern U.S. “Redneck Olympics” but taken somewhat more seriously, in that this year, corporate sponsorships (Nokia and Suzuki) helped fund the equivalent of about $66,000 in prize money for

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your lips are at a desired fullness.

Next, take your dark colored lip liner and apply around your new plump lip line, over lining slightly.

Then, with the same lip liner, fill in both outer corners of your lip, top and bottom. This will deepen the outer edges, making the center of your lips appear bright and larger.

Now take your lipstick in a few shades lighter, then the lip liner color, and apply all over the top and bottom lip; this will blend all of the colors together and give you a gradient effect on the lip.

Finally, apply your gloss. To do so, place the gloss on the tip of your finger and dap that onto the center portion of your lips only; doing so will give the center area a more highlighted effect when light reflects off of it, giving you that perfect pucker!

It’s always good to play around with different shade and color combinations with your lip liner and lipstick. A favorite of mine is using a nutmeg liner ($4.50 from NYX Cosmetics, nyxcosmetics. com) and Orange Soda round lipstick, also from NYX. Another combination that works great for a night out or something more romantic is using a deep plum liner and a cool toned medium shade of red; it’s that perfect sultry-meets-sophisticated color combo.

A nice alternative lip plumper that retails for $6 is NYX Cosmetics’ Pump It Up lip plumper – it says right on the bottle, “Feels like spicy chilies,” and they are right! Feels hot but looks even hotter!

Leaders of the ice-fishing community, aiming for official Olympics recognition as a sport, have begun the process by asking the World Anti-Doping Agency to randomly test its “athletes” for performance-enhancing drugs, according to a February New York Times report. However, said the chairman of the U.S. Freshwater Fishing Association, “We do not test for beer,” because, he added, “Everyone would fail.” Ice-fishing is a lonely, frigid endeavor rarely employing strength but mostly requiring guile and strategy, as competitors who discover advantageous spots in the lake must surreptitiously upload the hauls lest competitors rush over to drill their own holes.

Urine tests have also been run in recent years on competitors in darts, miniature golf, chess and tug-of-war, and in 2011, one chess player, two minigolfers and one tugger tested positive.

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Horrible (and just plain weird) bosses According to legend, bad things happen in threes, like deaths, earthquakes, and “Teen Mom” shows on MTV. The same could be said for the horrible bosses I encountered while working at a resort in Connecticut.

My job was to make lip sync music videos with the guests.

Parading around with a video camera and boom box and encouraging people to lip sync “Call Me Maybe” while carelessly descending down a zip line was something I actually did for a living. Sounds like the best job in the world, right?

Wrong!

Due to the resort being understaffed, my job duties expanded to making beds, woperating the lights in the night club, instructing archery, and leading mountain hikes. Not since Barbie did someone have so many different job titles, and at least she got to be an Air Force pilot, figure skater, flight attendant, babysitter, and astronaut. No fair!

My first bad encounter with one of my bosses was when my newest job duty was to stand on a ladder and scrub the roof of a party tent

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with a mop from the dollar store.

“We’re really scheduled to do this for the next three hours?” I asked a coworker. “A pressure washer might be more efficient and quicker than 10 people with mops.”

She must have overheard me complaining, because the next day, she made an announcement to the entire staff that anyone who had a problem mopping tents could leave, while staring directly at me.

If I took her advice, I could have avoided my second horrible boss experience there.

The co-owner, Vince, was this old guy who was constantly chasing me down with ideas for the lip sync videos.

“Why aren’t you filming right now?” he’d ask.

“Because I’m scheduled to make beds, and I have a tent to mop after that,” I’d answer.

One day, I was sitting on the toilet, and I heard a knock on the bathroom door.

“Justin, are you in there?” he asked.

“I’m going to the bathroom,” I answered.

Instead of walking away, he spent the next 10 minutes talking through the door about ideas for the next video.

When the season ended, I thought I’d never have to hear from my horrible bosses again.

A few weeks later, the other co-owner, Dick, sent me a loooong email IN ALL CAPS complaining that I stole his costumes to play beer pong with Rocky on 98.5 KRZ and he WANTED THEM BACK, even though I had permission and returned them.

To prove his point, he sent me a screenshot of my column from The Weekender’s website, with “How to Take a Screen Shot” visible on the next tab. Not only was my horrible boss stalking me, but he was Googling how to do it and sent a picture of it!

That was the last I ever heard from them. I guess even horrible bosses like to go out with a bang.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) I dreamt I wandered through a misty garden of white marble statues carved to resemble the Pantheon of ancient gods.

Stumbling at Eros’ cherubic feet, I found myself sobbing about a broken heart. Cupid, suddenly warm and alive, nodded knowingly at my apparently familiar complaint and lifted a giant birdbath, already filled to the brim with other people’s grief, to catch my tears as well. When I awoke, I thought of you, and wanted to remind you of these things: 1. You don’t have a monopoly on pain. 2. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t let yourself experience it fully. 3. Since everyone suffers, that ache can bring you closer to the world around you and the hurting people in it—ironically lessening the sting for all concerned.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) Wandering aimlessly is one of your specialties. You’re perfectly happy to drift for months on life’s open ocean in an inner tube with a backpack full of protein bars and bottled water, content to see where the current carries you. However, the moment you acquire a target, you transform into a sleek hydrofoil motorboat and arrive at your destination almost as soon as it’s conceived.

Unfortunately, those quick shifts can leave some of your favorite buddies floating cluelessly in your wake. Since the changing seasons are likely to inspire a reckless metamorphosis of motion, you might want to give them an advance warning, so they can have some chance of keeping up.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) As much as you may want to bitchslap those apple-polishing brown-nosers you’re surrounded with lately, I recommend you refrain. I’m hardly suggesting you kowtow to the kowtowers—I’m just pointing out that you’d be surprised at how quickly those toadying assholes can become vengeful, lawsuit-wielding pricks, who are ultimately much more bothersome than they were as ass-kissers. The bottom line: they’re not worth the effort. Take the Taoist approach to your life’s annoyances, and deal with them in an enlightened way: minimize their destructive or negative potential by giving them the least amount of energy possible.

Danny Masterson March 13, 1976 Billy Crystal March 14, 1948 Fabio March 15, 1959 Lauren Graham March 16, 1967 Mia Hamm March 17, 1972 Queen Latifah March 18, 1970 GLENN CLOSE (pictured) March 19, 1947

goes without? I hate to force you to make tough choices, but failing to do so would mean that only your loudest, grabbiest, and most selfish companions would get a share, leaving the meeker sweethearts out in the cold. Is that really what you want?

CANCER (June 21-July 22) You could describe the décor in most Crab’s houses as the veritable definition of the word “eclectic.” Mainly composed of the many gifts you’ve received and could never bear to part with, you usually manage to make clutter work for you. But it’s not healthy to be buried under anything, not even kindnesses. I’m not suggesting you throw any of those precious knickknacks away, but could you try consolidating them?

Clear out a room, or at the very least a corner, to give yourself some space to think.

If you can’t or won’t give it to those blue whale-sized ideas, more than just bric-a-brac is going to come crashing down when they come in anyway.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) People think of horses as tame—most have rarely seen one that’s not domesticated.

Although there are only a few places in North America where wild horses still live, I’m glad we haven’t eradicated them entirely. Their equine beauty is only enhanced by wildness and freedom, as is yours. Some of your latest chapters have involved settling down. However, don’t let the idea that you’ve been tamed sink too deeply into the minds of your friends. Do something this week to show that you’re still the same freedom-minded adventurer you’ve always been. Don’t worry; in this case, the threat of being bitten the next time they try to pat you on the back will only make your buddies want to all the more.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Don’t make me—or your buddies—tiptoe around you. Being touchy isn’t flattering on anyone. Besides, life is too short to make a stink about every slight, real or imagined.

It’s tiring. Since you’re likely to be a bit on edge every time reality sinks to any level less than heroic, epic, and exciting, you might be better off keeping your irritability about life’s occasional mediocrity to yourself. Just bide your time biting your tongue, if you can, because the only thing that’s going to keep next week from rocking your world is if you say something this week to screw it up.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Try to forget the louts who’ve done more to age you prematurely than a pack-aday cigarette habit. The experiences that supposedly took years off your life are much more valuable than you think. In fact, some of the most expensive lessons you learned will actually add years of enjoyment, if not actual time, to your life, as long as you’re willing to exercise them. We all grow older—you have the chance to do so with charming grace. Just remember: Those crow’s feet are not only well-earned, but really sexy and cute when you smile, too.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You could wear a crown of white flowers, don the most chastely virginal garb you have, or come riding in on a unicorn; still you’d have trouble convincing people of your innocence (ingenuousness, not lack of guilt). Fortunately, having circled the block a few times is no cause for shame.

Anyone who’d only be into you on the condition of your naïveté is probably trying to pull one over on you. Don’t hide your guile, Capricorn; it’s much sexier than faux innocence could ever be. Play at the ingénue if you like, as long as you keep tongue firmly in cheek, but don’t settle for anyone who wouldn’t be pleased to discover that a deliciously naughty wolf lurks beneath that sheep’s clothing.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) When we run out of oil in our lifetimes, we won’t plunge into some Mad Maxian anarchical state. We have technology to utilize many more environmentally sound, efficient, and economical alternatives.

Unfortunately, some of the powers-that-be would like to postpone our petroleum-free future so they can make more billions now.

Similarly, your strong-arm associates are keeping some seriously unpleasant s—t in your life longer than necessary. Consider their motives. What benefits are they reaping to justify your misery? The key to jumping ahead to a happier future that’s not as destructive on so many levels: eliminate the profit margin.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Screw the high road. Don’t let your usual willingness to be held accountable for your actions and accept responsibility for past mistakes get you nailed for things you didn’t actually do. You don’t have to take the fall for anyone; in fact, you owe it to yourself (and them, ultimately) not to. Relax; you don’t need to be a finger-pointing rat to get out of this one. Just shrug off the mantle of local scapegoat and stand firm with your honest “not guilty” plea—before long your innocence will be proven and your name restored.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) The latest bulls—t to come down has thrown you so off balance it may as well have severed all your toes. Staying upright in changing circumstances without those undervalued little appendages is nigh unto impossible, so lay low for now. Fly under the radar towards your next chapter (which promises to be a stellar doozy). You’ll be pleasantly surprised to discover how much work you can get done when the spotlight’s not on you. By next month, you’ll be ready to stand up, receive your full birthright of attention and stardom, and reveal your new power—embodied in your perfect new toes—regeneration.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) If you gave everyone who wanted one a piece, you’d have to divide yourself into paper-thin, transparent slices. Since being haunted by a tissue-fragile ghost version of you would be annoying and useless, your buddies won’t stand for it. It’s decision time: Who gets what parts of you, and who

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‘99 CHRYSLER CIRRUS......$1,999 ‘99 MERCURY TRACER GS ..................$2,499 ‘00 GMC JIMMY SLE ...........$3,599 ‘00 FORD TAURUS LX.......$2,599

FORD 97 ESCORT

4 door. 77,000 original miles.

Extra Clean, No Rust $3,495

‘01 SATURN SL1 ..................$3,499 ‘01 CHEVY VENTURA VAN ...................$1,799 ‘01 GMC SOMNOMA EXCAB 4X4 ..................$5,899 ‘02 CHEVY CAvaLIER ..................$3,499 ‘02 NEON 95K ..................$2,999 ‘03 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN SE .............$3,999

Courses offered in: HEALTH AND BEAUTY ACADEMY

459-5501 825-8363

MERCURY 02 SABLE LS

Leather, moon roof, 103,000 miles. New Inspection & 1 Year Warranty. $3,995

‘03 FORD TAURUS SE..............$3,699 ‘04 PONTIAC GRAND AM ..................$4,300 ‘05 CHEVY MAIiLBU CLASSIC ..................$3,299

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412 Autos for Sale

FORD 08 FOCUS SE

VITO’S & GINO’S

PONTIAC GRAND AM 02

Silver, black interior.

4 door sedan.

Power windows and locks, CD. 104k highway miles.

Runs excellent. $7200 negotiable.

570-578-9222

FORD RANGER XCAB 94 4x4, 5-speed $3,495

KELLY

875 W. Market St. Kingston, PA. 570-287-2243

HONDA ACCORD EXL 10 Leather and well Equipped.

KELLY 875 W. Market St. Kingston, PA. 570-287-2243

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JEEP WRANGLER 10

Sahara Unlimited, 4X4

KELLY 875 W. Market St. Kingston, PA. 570-287-2243

WANTED!

ALL JUNK CARS! CA$H PAID

570-301-3602 MAZDA 3 08 Extra clean. 5

speed. 41K miles $12,999

Auto Sales 949 Wyoming Ave, Forty Fort

288-8995 ‘90 GMC Pickup with Plow. $1,995 93 UD Tow Truck with wheel lift.

64k. $8,995 ‘94 Jeep Grand Cherokee V8. Runs great.

Power windows & doors. $2,495 ‘96 F150 Pickup. auto, runs good. $2,495 Pontiac ‘96 Grand Prix.

White, air, power windows & brakes, 4 door, runs good, 106K. $2,995 Plymouth 96’ Voyager, 81,000, runs and looks excellent, $2,995 98’ Buick Lesabre, 4-door, looks and runs excellent, $2,995.

‘01 Ford Taurus SES 4 door, air, power doors & windows. $2,995 ‘99 Chevy S10 Blazer 4 door, power windows, doors & seats.

126,000 miles. $3,995 ‘03 Ford Windstar 4 door, all power options.

96,000 miles. $4,300 ‘04 Chevy Impala 4 door, air, power windows. $4,695 ‘03 Ford Windstar 4 door, all power options.

75,000 miles. $4,995 ‘04 Nissan Armada, 7 passenger.

4wd.

Excellent condition. $10,900 ‘09 Mercedes GL450, 7 passenger. Too many options to list. 30K miles.

Garage kept. Cream puff. $42,500

Buying Junk Cars Used Cars & Trucks

Highest Prices Paid

KELLY 875 W. Market St.

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SUBARU OUTBACK 11 Station wagon, AWD.

CHEVROLET `98 SILVERADO 1500 EXTENDED CAB LS

Runs great! 211,000 miles, 4x4, new windshield, alternator, front wheel studs, spark plug wires, ignition module, brakes, throttle body gasket, 3 oxygen sensors, fuel pump, tank, & filter.

New tires with alloy rims. New transmission. $4,500, OBO. 570-793-5593

FORD 04 F150

4x2. Nice Truck! $11,999

KELLY

875 W. Market St. Kingston, PA. 570-287-2243

TOYOTA 03 COROLLA LE 5 speed $3,999

KELLY

875 W. Market St. Kingston, PA. 570-287-2243

TOYOTA 04 CELICA GT

112K miles. Blue, 5 speed. Air, power windows/locks, CD/cassette, Keyless entry, sunroof, new battery.

Car drives and has current PA inspection. Slight rust on corner of passenger door.

Clutch slips on hard acceleration.

This is why its thousands less than Blue Book value. $6,500 OBO. Make an offer! Call 570-592-1629

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KELLY

875 W. Market St. Kingston, PA. 570-287-2243

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FORD 95 F150

4x4. 1 Owner.

91K. 4.9 engine, auto. Runs great. New paint, stake body with metal floor.

570-675-5046.

Leave message, will return call.

REDUCED!!!

NOW $3,595

HONDA 09 CIVIC

Low miles, 4 door, 4 cylinder, auto. $14,400

MAFFEI Auto Sales

570-288-6227

1 owner, garage kept, 65k original miles, black with grey leather interior, all original & never seen snow. $7,995.

Call 570-237-5119

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Motorcycles

SUZUKI 01 VS 800 GL INTRUDER Garage kept, no rust, lots of chrome, black with teal green flake.

Includes storage jack & 2 helmets. $3600 570-410-1026

Trucks/ SUVs/Vans

MERCEDES 01 BENZ CLK 320 Coupe. Extra clean & sharp. $10,999

MAFFEI Auto Sales

570-288-6227 444 Market St. Kingston

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AR/AP

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Auto Services

$ WANTED JUNK $ VEHICLES LISPI TOWING We pick up 822-0995

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WANTED

Cars & Full Size Trucks. For prices...

Lamoreaux Auto Parts 477-2562

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The Classified section at timesleader.com

Call 829-7130 to place your ad.

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Accounting/ Finance

COLLECTIONS

Excellent opportunity for highly motivated individual to travel to various areas of Pennsylvania to collect and gather information on past due accounts. Candidate must be able to make weekly trips (Monday-Friday) as necessary, possess a reliable car, and have a valid driver’s license.

Previous collections experience a plus.

Excellent pay and benefits for the successful candidate.

Reply to: Office Manager PO Box 216, Dallas, PA 18612 or email: INFO@GHHARRIS.COM No phone calls.

All inquires will be strictly confidential.

Our client is a confidential Wyoming Valley company seeking a full time office assistant with proficiency in AR/AP, accounting, quickbooks and MS Office.

Call Harvis Interview Services at 570.542.5330 or send resume jobs.harvis@ gmail.com

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Not Dust.

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444 Market St. Kingston

JEEP 04 WRANGLER

6 cylinder. 5 speed 4x4 $9,999

415 Autos-Antique & Classic

MAZDA `88 RX-7 CONVERTIBLE

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KELLY

875 W. Market St. Kingston, PA. 570-287-2243

INSIDE CLAIMS ADJUSTERS

LEXUS ES 300

GWC Warranty, a national vehicle service contract provider located in Wilkes-Barre, is looking for Inside Claims Adjusters. Qualified candidates must possess knowledge of the automotive repair industry, excellent communication and negotiation skills, and demonstrated ability to set priorities.

One owner, 59,000 miles. Showroom Condition. Warranty. $8.999

Experienced Franchised Dealer Service Writers, Managers and Technicians are particularly encouraged to apply.

MAFFEI Auto Sales

The Company offers a competitive salary and benefits package including medical benefits and 401(k).

570-288-6227 444 Market St. Kingston

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875 W. Market St. Kingston, PA. 570-287-2243

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Building/ Construction/ Skilled Trades

PA Bridge Contractor is seeking individuals for the following positions:

527 Food Services/ Hospitality

COOK/DIETARY AIDES Part Time.

Apply in person at

-CRANE OPERATOR -BRIDGE CARPENTER

Summit 50 N. Pennsylvania Ave, Wilkes-Barre EOE M/F/D/V

Crane Operator should be experienced in operating conventional lattice truck cranes.

Hydraulic crane experience a plus.

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Bridge Carpenter should be experienced in bridge carpentry including skills in, but not limited to, working with metal & wood forming systems, forming diaphragms, cheekwalls, parapets, overhang, etc…

Concrete finishing skills are a plus.

Travel is definitely required for both positions.

Employment applications can be accessed on-line at www.svccnet.com Please submit both the job application & voluntary data form. Females & minorities are encouraged to apply. EOE

Find Your Ideal Employee! Place an ad and end the search!

570-829-7130 ask for an employment specialist

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CUSTOMER SERVICE DATA ENTRY Discount Dance

Supply has immediate openings for Customer Service/ Data entry representatives at our Forty Fort, PA location. Daily tasks will include: responding to inquiries, solving customer issues as well as placing orders for shipments, and handling daily reports.

Qualifications: Basic internet experience, Microsoft office programs, excellent written and verbal communication, reliable, and must pass background check.

Pay: $10.00 per hour. Full benefits available after 90 day probation. 401K available after 1 year of employment.

Send resumes to: mcollosi@ discountdance.com

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PIZZA MAKER

& KITCHEN HELP

PART TIME EXPERIENCE A MUST! WHITE HAVEN CALL 570-956-1961

SHIFT LEADER WANT TO R OLL IN S OME D OUGH ?

Auntie Anne’s Pretzels

is looking for qualified candidates to be a Shift Leader at our Wyoming Valley Mall location. Must have some management experience, as well as available days or nights & weekends. Also looking for individuals for day shift hours to fill counter help positions.

Apply in person or online at

auntieannes.com

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Installation/ Maintenance/ Repair

AUTO DETAILER

Dealership seeking individual to prep new and used vehicles. Full time position with benefits package.

Apply in person Pat & Dan’s Del Balso Ford 249 Market Street Kingston, PA 18704 Call 570-288-4501

FindYourIdeal Employee!Placean adandendthe search!

570-829-7130 askforanemploymentspecialist

Installation/ Maintenance/ Repair

FORD CERTIFIED TECHNICIANS

Our award winning dealership is now accepting applications for FORD TRAINED TECHNICIANS. We are seeking individuals that are trained in brakes, steering, electronics,driveability, gasoline/diesel engine diagnosis and repair.

We are offering top wages with an excellent benefit package.

Please apply to:

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Logistics/ Transportation

TRUCK DRIVER

Immediate openings for experienced class B with tanker endorsement. Must be able to work flex schedule including some nights & weekends.

Clean MVR req.

No DUI’s. Excellent pay, & benefits.

Must have stable work record.

Leave message.

570-298-0924

548 Medical/Health

Rudy Podest

Parts and Service Director Coccia Ford Lincoln 577 East Main Street Wilkes-Barre, Pa 18702 570-823-8888 rpodest@ cocciacars.com All Applicants Are Confidential

Job Seekers are looking here!

Where's your ad?

570-829-7130 and ask for an employment specialist

542

Logistics/ Transportation

DRIVERS WANTED

Class A CDL, Hazmat certification, 2 years experience.

Tunkhannock area.

Contact Jack at 570-881-5825

Drivers: Home Nightly.

Hazleton, PA Dedicated Run. New Higher Pay! CDL-A, 1 year experience required.

Estenson Logistics.

Apply: www.goelc.com 1-866-336-9642

TRUCK DRIVER

The nations largest distributor of automotive aftermarket accessories is now hiring drivers.

CDL CLASS A

We offer a competitive mileage rate of 45.4 cents per mile and fulltime benefits including medical, dental, 401K, sick days, paid holidays, and paid vacation.

Applicants must have 2 years recent verifiable experience, a clean driving record, & meet all DOT requirements.

A pre-hire drug screen & DOT physical will be required.

Apply in person: Monday-Friday 8am-4pm Keystone Automotive Operations, Inc. 44 Tunkhannock Avenue Exeter, PA 18643 E.O.E.

RN/LPN

for OBGYN Practice. Send resume & salary requirements to: P.O. Box 1463 Kingston, PA 18704

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RSA, LPN, MEDTECH, ACTIVITY AID, HOUSEKEEPING.

Apply in Person No Phone Calls TIFFANY COURT 700 Northampton St Kingston, PA

SERVICE REP

Lincare, Leading National Respiratory Company seeks caring Service Rep. Service patients in their home for oxygen and equipment needs. Warm personalities, age 21+, who can lift up to 120 pounds should apply.

CDL with DOT not required, but helpful . Growth opportunities are excellent. Stop by our office to fill out application: Lincare, Inc. 1574 Highway 315 Plains Twp.PA 18702 Drug-free workplace. EOE.

Find Your Ideal Employee! Place an ad and end the search!

570-829-7130 ask for an employment specialist

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LOCAL SEO SPECIALIST/ BLOGGER Modular Media Pros, a National Advertising Agency that works exclusively with the Modular Home Industry, is seeking a qualified local SEO Specialist/Blogger that will handle the following:

566

Sales/Retail/ Business Development

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SUMMER LABORERS

Part-Time Summer help for various commercial building & grounds maintenance projects.

Start date: May 13, rate: $11/hour, flexible schedule for enrolled college students. Must be 18+ have valid driver’s license & reliable transportation. Apply to: Box 4305 Times Leader 15 N. Main St Wilkesbarre Pa 18711

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Production/ Operations

POWDER COATING KMS FAB LLC

is hiring all shifts: POWDER COATING LINE LEADERS POWDER COATING OPERATORS Please apply in person at KMS FAB LLC, 100 Parry Street, Luzerne, PA Or email resume to Kbrunges@kmspa.com

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570-829-7130

Exercise Equipment

MARKETING/SALES

Full Time, Part Time experienced Marketing/Salespersons. Identify and connect with senior executives, open doors and arrange meetings. Must have excellent phone skills.

Fax Resume to: (866) 969-0690 Email to: CMCNorth east@verizon.net

- backlinking - link exchange - blog posts Qualified individual will work out of our new location in Old Forge, Pennsylvania. Position is parttime to start with health benefits offered and FullTime hours will be available within 90 days.

Please submit your resume to: modularmediapros @gmail.com.

Hourly rate: $10. per hour to start.

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600 FINANCIAL 630 Money To Loan “We can erase your bad credit 100% GUARANTEED.” Attorneys for the Federal Trade Commission say they’ve never seen a legitimate credit repair operation. No one can legally remove accurate and timely information from your credit report.

It’s a process that starts with you and involves time and a conscious effort to pay your debts.

Learn about managing credit and debt at ftc. gov/credit. A message from The Times Leader and the FTC.

700 MERCHANDISE 708

Antiques & Collectibles

ATTENTION VENDORS Accent items,

ceramics, baskets, holiday items, glasses, much more. ALL EXCELLENT PRICES AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. 570-675-5046 after 5:30 P.M.

Collect cash, not dust!

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YEARBOOKS. COUGHLIN (30) 1928-2000. GAR (18)) 1937-2006, MEYERS (15) 19532003, PITTSTON (6) 1967-’75, WVW (12), 1967-2000, KINGSTON (11) 1932-’52, HAZLETON, (8) 1940-’61, PLAINS, (3) 1966’68, HANOVER 1951’74.

Prices vary depending on condition. $20-$40 each. Call for further details and additional school editions.

570-825-4721 arthurh302@ aol.com

LEG EXTENSION MACHINE Hammer Strength ISO-Lateral. 4 years old, plate loaded, platinum frame, navy upholstery. New condition. $1000. SEATED L E G C U R L MACHINE, Hammer Strength ISOLateral. 4 years old, plate loaded, platinum frame, navy upholstery, New condition. $1000.

Call Jim 570-855-9172

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758 Miscellaneous

All Junk Cars & Trucks Wanted Highest Prices Paid In CA$H

Furniture & Accessories

CHAIRS, (2) Genuine leather, custom made recliners.

Taupe color, like new. $550 each.

570-675-5046 DESK, corner, computer. Great shape.

O’Sullivan-Sauder.

Lots of storage and shelves. $60 OBO can email pics.

570-477-2281

FREE PICKUP

570-574-1275

570-301-3602

CALL US! TO JUNK YOUR CAR BEST PRICES IN THE AREA

CA$H

780

FURNISH FOR LESS

* NELSON * * FURNITURE * * WAREHOUSE * Recliners from $299 Lift Chairs from $699 New and Used Living Room Dinettes, Bedroom 210 Division St Kingston Call 570-288-3607

SALON FURNITURE

free standing styling station, sink with backwash unit and shampoo chair, 58x 36 rectangular antifatigue mat, wall mount mirror with brackets, 58x36.

Other miscellaneous items.

570-709-7271

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Medical Equipment

STAIRWAY ELEVATOR

Chair gently used, have manual. $1,500, negotiable.

570-454-9813

758 Miscellaneous HOOD 1967 Corvette 427, Big Block, After market $795. Good condition in primer.

570-883-7007

ON THE

$POT,

Free Anytime Pickup 570-301-3602

Televisions/ Accessories

TV 19 COLOR

With remote and DVD/VCR combo player. $25.00 each or $40.00 for both.

Call 570-814-9574

796 Wanted to Buy Merchandise

WANTED JEWELRY

WILKESBARREGOLD

(570)48GOLD8 (570)484-6538

Highest Cash PayOuts Guaranteed Open 6 Days a We e k 10am-6pm Closed Thursdays 1092 Highway 315 Blvd.

(Plaza 315) 315N, 1/2 mile b e f o re M o h e g a n Sun Casino

London PM Gold Price

March 12 - $1,594.00 We Pay At Least 80% of the London Fix Market Price for All Gold Jewelry WilkesBarreGold.com or email us at wilkesbarregold@ yahoo.com

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518 Customer Support/Client Care

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Would you like to deliver newspapers as an Independent Contractor under an agreement with

THE TIMES LEADER?

Operate your own business with potential profits of up to $900.00 _________ per month.

Routes Currently Available:

WILKES-BAARE NORTH

Bowman St. • Chapel St. • Hillard St. Kidder St. • New Grant St. 183 Daily Papers • 205 Sunday Papers $830 Monthly Profit

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Production/ Operations

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Production/ Operations

PROCESS ENGINEER

Business Processing Agent GWC Warranty, a nationwide leader in vehicle service contracts, is seeking a Business Processing Agent. The ideal candidate must possess exceptional communication and reasoning skills, efficient typing skills, and attention to detail. Applicants with a four-year business degree are particularly encouraged to apply as the position offers an excellent opportunity for advancement within the organization.

GWC Warranty offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package including medical and 401k.

Fabri-Kal Corporation, a major plastics company is seeking a Process Engineer to develop and enhance process capabilities in thermoforming, extrusion and supporting manufacturing processes in Hazleton, PA. Demonstrated expertise in technical leadership, team building and problem-solving skills. Lead/support technical initiatives to achieve plant goals in the areas of Safety, Quality, Productivity and Cost.

Qualifications: 4 year technical degree with minimum 7 years relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience in engineering and manufacturing. Strong communication, technical and analytical skills a must. Understanding of plastic polymers/processes. Experience in Lean Manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) SQC/SPC, and people/Project Mgmt preferred.

Competitive salary and benefits package: Health Insurance, Dental & Vision, Disability, 401K, Life, AD&D, Tuition Reimbursement, Paid Leave. Drug screening and background checks are conditions of employment.

Forward resume to: FABRI-KAL Corporation, EOE Human Resources Dept.

Attn: K. Shaffer 150 Lions Drive Hazle Township PA 18202 Email: HRPA@Fabri-Kal.com Fax: 570-501-0817

Interested candidates may submit their resumes via email to

careers@gwcwarranty.com or by fax at 570-456-0967.

Visit us at our website at www.gwcwarranty.com

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WILKES-BARRE (PARSONS)

Wyoming St. • Brookside St. E. Chestnut St. • Harry St. • Madison St. 169 Daily Papers • 206 Sunday Papers $850 Monthly Profit PAGE 61

Call Rosemary to make an appointment at 570-829-7107

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796 Wanted to Buy Merchandise

WANTED: Miners’ Candle-

sticks and Miners’ Carbide Lamps.

Paying $10-$45, Plus Postage.

E-Mail, mace837116 @bellsouth.net

906 Homes for Sale

LAFLIN

7 CONCORD DRIVE $244,900 Two story, 1,800 sq. ft., in Oakwood Park. 8 rooms, cozy kitchen, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, large living room, family room with fireplace, dining room, sunroom with hardwood floors.

Two car garage, central air. Lot 100’ x 125’. Move in Condition. Call Ed at 570-655-4294 for appointment.

Dogs

GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPPIES ACA registered.

Males & females.

Vet checked. $650 each.

570-336-6162 570-417-3107

SHIH-TZU PUPPIES FOR SALE 570-436-2762

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Pet Services

SPRING INTO A FRESH START PUPPY & BASIC

OBEDIENCE CLASSES Starting 3/23 & Therapy Dog Training starting 3/17 570-332-4095 for info

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900 REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

941 1472 S. Hanover St. Well maintained bilevel. This home features 2 bedrooms, 1 3/4 baths, recreation room with propane stove.

Walk out to a 3 season porch.

Professionally landscaped yard. 1 car garage, storage shed, new appliances, ceiling fans.

Close to LCCC. $153,900.

Call 570-735-7594 or 570-477-2410

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Income & Commercial Properties

WILKES-BARRE Owner Retiring Turn Key Night Club For Sale.

Two full bars, game area.

Four restrooms.

Prime Location!!!

Creative financing Available $80,000, Dave Rubbico, Jr.

Rubbico Real Estate 826-1600

912 Lots & Acreage

906 Homes for Sale Having trouble paying your mortgage?

Falling behind on your payments?

You may get mail from people who promise to forestall your foreclosure for a fee in advance. Report them to the Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s consumer protection agency. Call 1-877FTC-HELP or click on ftc.gov. A message from The Times Leader and the FTC.

NEWPORT TWP.

Lot 210 ‘ frontage 158’ deep on hill with great view $35,000.

Call 570-736-6881

Apartments/ Unfurnished

AVOCA

3 rooms includes heat, hot water, water, garbage & sewer + appliances, washer/dryer hookup, off street parking.

Security. No pets. $490/month.

570-655-1606

EXETER

BEAUTIFUL 1st floor 1 bedroom 1/2 duplex.

Eat-in kitchen, appliances included refrigerator, stove, dishwasher, & washer/ dryer hook-up. No pets. $720/ mo + security & electric heat, water, garbage & sewage included.

570-301-7247

GLEN LYON

1 bedroom, 2nd floor apt.

Living room, kitchen, full bath, background check & references required. $575 month + security. heat included. Tenant pays electric.

201-304-3469

GLEN LYON 1st floor 4 room apt.

Electric & propane gas heat. Off street parking.

Washer /dryer hookup, refrigerator, garbage included. No dogs. $400/month references required, 1 year lease + 1 month security.

570-714-1296

NANTICOKE

2nd floor, 1 bedroom non smoking. Water & sewer refuge included. No pets. 1 year lease + references. $400/month + security & utilities.

Call 570-735-3719

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Apartments/ Unfurnished

PITTSTON

KINGSTON 28 East Vaughn St.

Beautiful 1 bedroom apartment in nice neighborhood.

Hardwood floors, French doors, natural woodwork, includes refrigerator, stove, dishwasher, garbage disposal, washer & dryer. $450/month plus utilities & security. Off street parking. No pets / No Smoking, Available April 1st. Please call 570-287-4047 for appointment

Apartments/ Unfurnished

LOTS - LOTS - LOTS

1 mile south of L.C.C.C. Established developement with underground utilities including gas.

Cleared lot. 100’ frontage x 158. $35,000.

941

HANOVER TWP.

2 bedrooms, 1 bath mobile home located in a park on a rented lot along a quiet, dead end road. Covered carport and shed. In good condition, but needs updating $8000. OBO. Please call 570-829-3476 or 570-994-6308

NANTICOKE

800 PETS & ANIMALS 815

915 Manufactured Homes

MUST SEE! 2 bedroom apartment, completely renovated with new hardwood floors & ceramic tile. New appliances, off street parking, coin operated washer & dryer in basement.

No pets, no smoking. $600/month + security & utilities.

570-357-1383

WEST WYOMING

425 West 8th Street 2nd floor, 2 bedroom with off street parking, washer/ dryer hook up, stove. No pets. $525/mo + security.

Sewer & garbage included, other utilities by tenant.

570-760-0458

KINGSTON

E. WALNUT ST.

Light, bright, 3rd floor, 2 bedrooms, carpeted. Security system, garage Extra storage & cable TV included.

Laundry facilities.

Heat & hot water furnished. Fine neighborhood.

Convenient to bus & stores. No pets.

References.

Security. Lease.

No smokers please. $730. month. Call 570-287-0900

WILKES BARRE renovated 1 bedroom! 216 Carlisle St. May be used as 2 bedroom. Fresh carpets, floors, paint, new stove & refrigerator, new cabinets.

HOT WATER, HEAT & SEWER INCLUDED! 2nd floor apt. Quiet 1-way street, parking on street and behind house. $625mo & $625 security deposit to move in. Call 215565-6761 for more info, proof of employment req.

941

KINGSTON

SECOND FLOOR Efficiency Apartment Refrigerator and stove provided. All utilities included.

Nice neighborhood. $475 per month. Lease, first & security deposit.

R e f e r e n c e s required. No pets.

570-288-5569

LUZERNE

276 Bennett St. 2nd floor, large, 2 bedroom, large living room, den, dining room, tiled bath, kitchen with stove and refrigerator, washer and dryer hook up, off street parking. Water and sewer included. $600 plus utilities and security, no pets or smoking. References.

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WEST WYOMING

Large modern 2 bedroom, 2nd floor apartment on quiet street. $550 a month plus utilities.

(570)479-0302

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WILKES-BARRE

1 bedroom, 1 bath 2nd floor. Off street parking. All appliances including washer & dryer.

Gas heat. No pets. $575/month + utilities, security.

570-881-3359

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WILKES-BARRE

2 bedroom apartment. 1 bath. Eat in kitchen. Closed in terrace. Full usable attic. $625 + utilities & security.

Call: 718-809-3338

WILKES-BARRE

2 bedrooms, living room, kitchen, finished attic off street parking. 1st & last months rent + security. Leave message 570-817-0601

WILKES-BARRE

447 S. Franklin St. 1 bedroom with study, off street parking, laundry facility. Includes heat and hot water, hardwood floors, appliances, Trash removal. $580/mo Call (570)821-5599

WILKES-BARRE NORTH END

17 Thompson Street Good neighborhood & good landlord requests good tenants. 2 bedroom, 2nd floor. Stove, refrigerator, washer/dryer hook up in basement. Heat, hot & cold water included. Shared yard & off street parking. Newly renovated. Section 8 OK. Small pets considered. References, credit & background checked. $625/ month + security & lease. Now available. Leave name & phone number.

570-825-0151

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Mayflower Crossing Apartments 570.822.3968 1, 2, 3 & 4 Bedrooms

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COMMERCIAL RETAIL PROPERTY FOR RENT: 900 Sq. Ft. STORE RETAIL SPACE Will be vacant as of January 1, 2013 200 Spring St. Wilkes-Barre Great for a Barber Shop!

Call Michael at 570-239-7213

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Other

MAINTENANCE/ CAMP RANGER Non-Profit seeking professional candidate to manage and maintain camp in Kingsley, PA. Responsibilities include maintenance of site, safety and security of the property, and campers safety.

Perform routine and/or emergency repair and maintenance or supervise contractor performing repairs. Develop positive relationships with campers and community. Five years experience in construction trades or camp maintenance preferred.

Valid driver s license. Ability to handle power tools and operate machinery and lift up to 100 pounds.

Housing is provided. Forward resume and cover letter to careers@gshpa.org or mail to GSHPA, Attn: HR, 350 Hale Ave., Harrisburg, PA 17104

WORRIED ABOUT A JOB? SOVEREIGN IS NOW HIRING! Try something different full and part time 2nd shift positions.

Great hourly rates for full time start at $11.00 for facility cleaning.

Part time evenings for extra income $9.00-$9.50hr. Great atmosphere and friendly teams.

Paid time off and uniforms are provided. You must have valid driver’s license.

General cleaning of facilities located between Pittston, Hanover- and Luzerne area.

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TOP OF HILL NORTH MAIN

Maple kitchen, all appliances, laundry, FIRST FLOOR $625 + utilities. Beautifully done Victorian, fireplace (ornamented), 1 bedroom.

NO PETS /SMOKING. EMPLOYMENT VERIFICATION

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IF YOU ARE FROM Hanover Green South Wilkes-Barre Buttonwood Korn Krest Nanticoke

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Then Call Mr. John at 570-735-8708 and leave a message

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4,200 sq. ft. building with two overhead garage doors. $300/month.

Option to buy, leave a message.

570-592-3575

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45 Butler Street 2 huge bedrooms, brand new carpeting, refrigerator & stove, washer/dryer hook up. Off street parking. Beautiful!

No pets. $650/ month & security.

570-479-5092 570-417-4180

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ASHLEY 3 bedrooms, laun-

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570-851-2929 leave message

DURYEA

3 bedroom, 1.5 baths, separate laundry area. Large yard. Off street parking. $700/ month + security, utilities & garbage.

570-466-0401 570-655-6475

KINGSTON

3/1 Bath. Freshly painted, newer carpeting, modern kitchen with appliances. $635.00 + utilities 570-239-3887

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3 bedroom. Washer dryer hookup. $600 + utilities. Call 570-954-7919

PLAINS Spacious, modern 2 bedroom. Wall to wall carpeting, bath, living room, kitchen with all appliances, off street parking. $600 + utilities, 1st & last month’s rent & security.

Absolutely no pets or smoking!

570-823-4116 570-417-7745 570-417-2737

PLYMOUTH 3 bedrooms. Newly

remodeled with yard & large patio.

Washer & dryer hookup, wall to wall carpeting, Wood flooring in the living room and dining room. $600/ month & deposit required.

Section 8 O.K. 570-991-2364 or 570-760-0175

SHAVERTOWN

OLD FORGE LUXURY TOWNHOUSE Built in 2003 this

luxurious 3 bedroom townhome features hardwood floors on main floor, finished basement, large master suite, private outdoor deck and back yard, off street parking, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, DirecTV, high-speed internet (all other utilities NOT included), garbage, sewer, gas heat with brand new furnace, central air conditioning with brand new compressor, (all other utilities NOT included), brand new carpeting on 2nd floor in all bedrooms, extra closet space, large basement storage room, wood blinds in ALL rooms, all yard maintenance and snow plowing included. This is an end unit with only one other unit attached. Rent is $1,500. per month & requires $2,000. security deposit.

Minimum one year lease required.

Must fill out credit application.

NO PETS. 570-840-1960

PLYMOUTH 3 bedrooms, 1

bathroom, living room, dining room, kitchen, off street parking. $600 a month plus utilities and security.

Call (570)825-4268

SYLVAN LAKE 1 bedroom house

Building & Remodeling

1ST. QUALITY CONSTRUCTION CO.

Roofing, siding, gutters, insulation, decks, additions, windows, doors, masonry & concrete.

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570-606-8438 Shedlarski Construction H I OME MPROVEMENT SPECIALIST

SWOYERSVILLE 3 bedroom, 2 bath,

full basement, off street parking, large yard. Electric stove, washer/dryer hookup, $750 plus utilities & security required. Nice neighborhood. pets considered.

Non smoking.

570-316-1559

WILKES-BARRE

2 bedroom, wall to wall carpeting, small backyard, washer & dryer hookup, no pets. $550 + security & utilities. Call 570-822-7657

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Cleaning & Maintainence

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3 bedrooms, 1 bath.

All appliances including washer & dryer. Small fenced yard. 1st floor hardwood. Large kitchen. No pets $650/month + utilities & security 570-881-3359

Chimney Service

Concrete & Masonry

D. PUGH CONCRETE

All phases of masonry & concrete. Small jobs welcome.

Senior discount.

Free estimates.

Licensed & Insured 288-1701/655-3505

STESNEY CONCRETE & MASONRY Brick, block, walks, drive, steps, stucco, stone, chimneys and repairs.

Lic. & Ins. 570-283-5254

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Logistics/ Transportation

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826-1883 472-4321

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Free Estimates.

570-256-3150

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Residential & Commercial Free Estimates Licensed-Insured PA032422

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570-675-4424

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Please contact David at 570-235-7599

SHAVERTOWN

Good location, excellent schools.

Modern, 4 bedrooms, office, 2 full baths. Living, dining rooms. Finished family room, granite kitchen with ceramic tile . Large wrap around deck, out door Jacuzzi, in ground heated pool.

Gas heat. Four car off street parking. $1,500/month + utilities, security + last month deposit.

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