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staff John Popko

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“As a guy, do I really have a choice in the matter?”

Amanda Dittmar

Graphic Designer • 570.970.7401 adittmar@theweekender.com

“Well, in the state of Penn., I can’t get married, so I’d just throw a rager with lots of bass drops.”

Mike Golubiewski Production Editor • 570.829.7209 mgolubiewski@theweekender.com

“I’m thinking royal wedding, only bigger...and it would involve Yankee Stadium and Pope Francis.”

If you had an unlimited budget, what kind of wedding would you have?

Rich Howells

Editor • 570.831.7322 rhowells@theweekender.com

“An exact recreation of the wedding of Reed Richards and Sue Storm in Fantastic Four Annual No. 3.”

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Media Consultant • 570.831.7321 kinglis@theweekender.com

“An endless one.”

letter from the editor

Sara Pokorny

Staff Writer • 570.829.7132 spokorny@theweekender.com

“I would do it up Jay Gatsby style - orchestras, booze, buffets, ‘20s garb, and a kick-ass yellow car.”

Paul Shaw

Digital Specialist • 570.829.7204 pshaw@theweekender.com

“Intimate with close friends and family and the love of my life.

Save the money.”

Tell @wkdr what kind of wedding you would have if you had an unlimited budget.

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Rating system WWWWW = superb WWWW = excellent WWW = good WW = average W = listenable/watchable * Scarborough Research

I’m not afraid of commitment – I’m afraid of what comes after.

Spending the rest of your life with someone sounds great, but getting there is always more than you bargain for. Popping the question is the biggest responsibility I feel I have; after that, many guys, like myself, take a hands-off approach.

We aren’t the ones who were dreaming of white dresses and pretty flowers since childhood, so we just hope to step back and let our ladies do their thing.

That’s not the way relationships work, however.

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It’s a team effort every day, so be prepared to take on every single step of the wedding process together. Thankfully, we’ve made it a bit easier for both of you with our three-page wedding guide (pages 36-37, 40), sharing stories, tips, and checklists to make your big day go smoothly.

So don’t be afraid of forgetting anything - be afraid of tripping down the aisle and other things beyond our control.

-Rich Howells, Weekender Editor

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Mark Duplass @MarkDuplass I kinda miss walking around the video store in a state of utter confusion.

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When

….can you get the chance to “Come on down!”?

On May 30, the F.M. Kirby Center (71 Public Square, Wilkes-Barre) will play host to “The Price is Right Live!”

The show is an interactive one that gives contestants, pulled right from the audience, the chance to have an authentic experience with the game show.

“This is the real thing,” said Will Beekman, Kirby’s Director of Programming. “You get Plinko, Cliffhangers, and of course, the big wheel. Heck, you even get the models.”

A celebrity host will be announced soon.

Tickets go on sale March 28 at 10 a.m. and are available at the F.M. Kirby Center Box Office, by phone at 570.826.1100, online at kirbycenter.org, and through all Ticketmaster outlets.

Tickets are $35.50, $45.50, $55.50, and $78.50 for limited VIP.

Why

….are so many Scrantonions dreading May? That’s when the hit NBC show based in the Electric City, “The Office,” will finally come to an end.

The locals won’t let it go quietly, of course, so WBRE Eyewitness News is organizing a mass lip dub video to give the show a proper send-off.

The first part of the process is to have local bands write a goodbye song and record it, and a winner will be chosen from the submissions. This song will be used as the basis for the lip dub video, which will be filmed May 5 in Scranton.

Any bands wishing to submit songs can do so via e-mail by contacting coneal@pahomepage.com.

For more information on the event, go online and check out theofficescranton.eventbrite.com.

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- Will Beekman, F.M. Kirby’s Director of Programming

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….can you do to lend a hand in kicking cancer’s ass? Help out the Center for Cancer Wellness, Candy’s Place, by signing up to participate in its Rainbow Walk.

Now in its 16th year, the Rainbow Walk was created in memory of Candice VincentMamary, a social worker who died after a seven-month battle with lung cancer. Her sister, Penny Cunningham, used the funds raised from the first Rainbow Walk to create Candy’s Place in honor of Vincent-Mamary.

The walk will be held May 11 at Kirby Park, and the cost is $25. For more information, call 570.714.8800 or visitcancerwellnessnepa.org.

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speak and see POETIC Dietrich Theater (60 E. Tioga ST., Tunkhannock: 570.996.1500) • Creative CharaCters from PaPer to PuPPets: ages 5-12. aPril 9, 16, 23, 30, may 7, 4-5 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;” aPril 18, “draCula;” may 16, “the giaour;” June 20, vamPires in the lemon grove. to register Call 570.346.7186.

King’s College (133 north river st., wilkes-barre, 570.208.5957 or kings.edu) • CamPion literary soCiety oPen reading: aPril 10, 7 P.m., regina Court. info: 570.208.5900, ext. 5487.

Pittston Memorial Library (47 broad st., 570.654.9565, Pitmemlib@ ComCast.net) • friends meeting: marCh 28, 6:30 P.m.

Wilkes University events: • reading by beverly donofrio, bestselling author of ‘riding in Cars with boys:’ aPril 3, 7 P.m., barnes and noble College bookstore (wilkes-barre).

VISUAL AFA Gallery (514 laCkawanna ave., sCranton: 570.969.1040 or artistsforart.org) gallery hours thurs.-sat., 12-5 P.m.

• keystone College senior exhibition: aPril 4-27. oPening reCePtion aPril 4, 6-9 P.m.

• time and landsCaPe by kathe frantz: aPril 4-27. oPening reCePtion aPril 5, 6-9 P.m.

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.

• keystone College senior exhibition: aPril 4-27. oPening reCePtion aPril 4, 6-9 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.

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.

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.

• vamPires at the afa gallery, showing of the film ‘vamPyr:’ marCh 27, 6-8 P.m. ages 18 and uP. The Linder Gallery at Keystone College (570.945.8335, keystone.edu/lindergallery) • “kellesimone waits: antithesis:” through aPril 28.

Marquis Art & Frame (122 s. main st., wilkes-barre, 570.823.0518) • “three artists: three years later,” featuring the works of ryan hnay, marguerite i. fuller, and skiP sensbaCh: through aPril 27.

• “the tv show:” aPril 5-may 1. oPening reCePtion aPril 5, 6-8:30 P.m.

New Visions Studio & Gallery (201 vine st., sCranton, www.newvisionstudio.Com, 570.878.3970) gallery hours: tues.-sun., noon-6 P.m. and by aPPointment.

• “under the sea:” aPril 5-26. oPening reCePtion aPril 5, 6-10 P.m.

Pauly Friedman Art Gallery (miseriCordia university, 570.674.6250, miseriCordia.edu/art) gallery hours: mon. Closed, tue.thurs. 10 a.m.-8 P.m., fri. 10 a.m.-5 P.m., sat.-sun. 1-5 P.m.

• “reCent landsCaPes,” a thomas staPleton exhibit: oPening reCePtion aPril 6, 5-8 P.m. runs aPril 6 to June 7.

• “Pennsylvania from above,” aerial PhotograPhy: oPening reCePtion aPril 6, 5-8 P.m. runs aPril 6 to June 2.

Schulman Gallery (2nd floor of lCCC CamPus Center, 1333 s. ProsPeCt st., nantiCoke, www.luzerne.edu/sChulmangallery, 570.740.0727) gallery hours: mon.-fri., 9 a.m.-5 P.m.

• annual rossetti exhibit: through marCh 27.

• a ColleCtion of two masters, PhotograPhy by miChael molnar and sam Cramer: aPril 5-may 2.

The Vintage Theater (326 sPruCe st., sCranton, info@ sCrantonsvintagetheater.Com) • “Penmen, artists and eduCators: 125 years of thezaner-bloser PenmanshiP ComPany:” through aPril 14.

Widmann Gallery (loCated in king’s College’s sheehyfarmer CamPus Center between north franklin and north main streets, wilkes-barre, 570.208.5900, ext. 5328) gallery hours: mon. through fri. 9 a.m. to 4:30 P.m., sat. and sun. as arranged. free and oPen to the PubliC. • “a Closer look,” lawrenCe lang’s PhotograPhiC works of marCos and landsCaPes: through aPril 5. meet the artist reCePtion, marCh 15, 6-8 P.m.

• 25th annual king’s student exhibition: aPril 15-may 4. oPening reCePtion aPril 17, 6-8 P.m.

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album reviews Cartel collides good with the bad

With the weather (hopefully) getting warmer, everyone normally starts to resort to their favorite summer throwback songs. But what may be overlooked is the fact some of these artists may have new material out that can compete with the old – Cartel, best known for their hit “Honestly,” is back with a new album that may perk the ears of fans.

“Collider” starts off with a track called “Second Chances,” offering listeners a catchy pop anthem driven by scores of enthusiasm and energy. However, it’s difficult to shake the feeling that you’ve heard it before. “Take Me with You”

impresses with high-quality production that is consistent throughout and is a nice surprise, given that the album is self-released. Nevertheless, the song lets us down, as it lacks the vigor apparent in “Second Chances.”

“First Thing’s First” arrives at just the right time, picking up the album with a dash of diversity that possesses a more distinctive pop punk sound to it, proving that Cartel definitely has the potential to push its sound further and rid of the boy band clichés that cling to most of their songs. Indeed, with “Best Intentions,” the album seems to be turning around with bouncy guitar

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In their 30-year career, Danish rockers Pretty Maids have never managed to crack the household name status like many of their contemporaries. They’ve made some blips on the radar, like with their 1987 second major label album, “Future World,” guided by legendary Jimi Hendrix producer Eddie Kramer – that album’s title track is still turning up periodically on ‘80s rock compilation discs. Pretty Maids began life as a somewhat sweetened take on the Paul DiAnno-fronted

riffs and energetic percussion that provides the band with an endearing relatability. However, the unremarkable tune “Thin Air” that suggests Cartel are resting on their laurels and failing to maintain that sincere pop punk amiability that shone through in earlier tracks.

Relying primarily on hooks, “Sympathy” and “Mosaic” echo bands like There For Tomorrow and Every Avenue that are entirely enjoyable to listen to, provided you’re OK with the feeling of gluttony that results. However, Collider’s last offering finishes the album on a note that is refreshingly different to songs heard before and reminds the listener vaguely of old 30 Seconds to Mars. Cartel have clearly found their niche; it’s just a shame that it took until the end of the album to do so. It’s nothing spectacular, but for fans of more pop than punk, it will do the trick just fine.

-Matt Morgis, Weekender Correspondent

Iron Maiden, tastefully blending keys and synths into hardened, rhythmically dangerous metal. On “Motherland,” the band has taken this formula to aggressive new heights that beg to be noticed.

Think Bullet For My Valentine’s infectious metal-encrusted hooks meets the grand, dark beauty of Opeth and you’ve pinpointed Pretty Maids’ 2013 sound fairly well. The topical, politically acrimonious opener “Mother of All Lies,” with incensed lyrical protest like, “Can’t you see, they’re twisting our reality, never practicing what they preach,” and heavy-handed riffing blows the lid off of any preconceptions that this band is mired in commercial hard rock complacency. Similarly, the ambient, mid-tempo keyboard barrage of “To Fool a Nation” packages empathy for the “sitting ducks” of undisclosed democracies into easily digestible, melodic, Beatle-esque metal.

Prime cuts like “The Iceman” are as thrill ride pummeling as any power metal Helloween has recorded, tempered with the funhouse-mirrored keyboards Morten Sandager crafts into diabolic landscapes – on par with Stratovarius pianist Jens Johansson.

The haunting vortex of “Why So Serious?” is typical of vocalist Ronnie Atkins’ breathy snarl, adding emotional depth to the band’s uniquely European symphonic metal-meetsclassic hard rock sound.

Infernal and heavy, dark and infectious arena-ready metal, Pretty Maids remain contemporarily dynamic in a genre filled with endless retreads.

-Mark Uricheck, Weekender Correspondent

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Voice” has provided a platform for the entertainingly outspoken side of this tall, drawling country boy from Oklahoma. Now Shelton is creating music as brash as he is, fully integrating his colorful character into his songs.

Before a career resurgence that included landing as a coach on “The Voice,” Shelton spent years struggling to establish a consistent presence on the country music charts, never creating a recognizable style of his own.

“Based on a True Story” reveals how much has changed.

The album opens with a hip-hop treatment of the word “redneck,” Blake Shelton traversing Shelton’s cross-interests in ‘Based on a True Story’ the rural and the urban before blasting into the guitar-driven “Boys ‘Round Rating W W W W Here,” about back-country folk who rock out in the cabs of their pickups.

The tune sets the tone for Shelton’s focus on boisterous country rock and emotional ballads that show off his expressive vocals as the Country Music Association entertainer of the year rises to his newfound superstar status with a lighthearted but rollicking album that pushes boundaries in all the right places.

The more Blake Shelton rises in stature, the more he parades his swagger-Michael McCall, AP ing, mischievous personality. His highW profile role as a judge on NBC’s “The

Shelton shows off his own ‘Voice’

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Bon voyage to Voyager 1: At 30, its journey continues In the late ‘70s, NASA launched the Voyager 1 spacecraft on an epic mission of exploration through the outer solar system.

But, despite massively increasing our understanding of our solar system, the Voyager 1 spacecraft’s journey isn’t over just yet.

That intrepid traveler is still beaming back information from the outer reaches of the solar system…or it was, until recently.

No, it hasn’t stopped working.

It’s finally left the solar system.

Clipping along at nearly 11 miles per second, Voyager 1 has been measuring solar wind (charged particles that the sun routinely spews out in all directions) for years. Despite being more than 30 years old, scientists are still making use of new data beamed back from the spacecraft.

In this case, we’ve discovered that there is, in fact, a detectable boundary between interstellar space and the solar system. The environmental influence of the sun – detectable as hydrogen and helium – drops dramatically and suddenly, and the prevailing “currents” of particles are more in line with what we’d expect in deep space.

Scientists have been waiting for this for a while.

Last year, Voyager 1 entered the heliopause, which is generally considered to be the boundary zone between interstellar space and the solar system, but they weren’t exactly sure how long the transition would take.

This is the first time that any manmade object has left the

solar system – Voyager 1 is also moving at a higher velocity than any other manmade object. And just to give you an idea of the distance travelled here: Moving at a speed of 38,610 mph, it took 30 years to reach the edge of the solar system, 11 billion miles away.

It takes light from the sun 17 hours to travel that far. To make you feel even smaller, it will take another 40,000 years moving at that speed to reach a nearby star.

Voyager 2, the twin of the Voyager 1 spacecraft, is still alive and well and is also headed out of the solar system – it’s somewhat closer to the sun than Voyager 1, despite being launched first. Voyager 1 is traveling more quickly due to “slingshot” maneuvers it undertook near Saturn.

Unfortunately, Voyager 1’s nuclear power supply will run down around 2020, bringing its mission to an end – but we’ve certainly gotten our money’s worth.

Until then, Voyager 1 will continue to return data, and both Voyager 1 and its sister spacecraft, Voyager 2, maintain active Twitter accounts for anyone interested in following their missions. Voyager 1’s Twitter account can be found @NASAVoyager, and Voyager 2’s Tweets can be seen @ NASAVoyager2.

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

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Bad Religion not reliant on its past R EV I EW

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Any band with over three decades of history will automatically receive the “legendary” label, but Bad Religion has earned it.

What other punk band has not only survived this long, but also stayed as active and prolific as these Los Angeles natives?

Touring in support of their 16th studio record, “True North,” the five-piece (not counting nontouring member Brett Gurewitz) group proved just how well their new material blends with the old at the Electric Factory (421 N. 7th St., Philadelphia) on March 24.

Openers Polar Bear Club of upstate New York showed off their youthful energy with a simple, yet rousing set of post-hardcore tunes that live up to song titles like “Killin’ It;” skinny, spectacled frontman Jimmy Stadt easily engaged the all-ages crowd. The Bronx, however, did not appear as genuine overall.

Filling in for Against Me! when they dropped off the tour weeks ago, the Los Angeles hardcore punks sounded great musically, embracing a surprisingly classic rock sound and head-bobbing beat, but vocalist Matt Caughthran’s stage presence, which felt more gangster rapper than hardened punker amongst his constant swearing and shout-outs to various locations and random musicians, detracted from an otherwise exciting performance.

He did make up for this, though, by jumping into the pit for The Bronx’s last two songs to stir up the already lively crowd, much to the chagrin of security guards who were forced to hold his microphone cord over their heads the entire time.

Bad Religion did not need to rely on such stunts to whip up a frenzy, bursting onstage with “Past Is Dead,” a new song with a title that’s ironic when followed by “We’re Only Gonna Die,” a set staple since their 1982 debut album “How Could Hell Be Any Worse?” “New Dark Ages” and “True North” were next, but they dug right back into the catalog for “Anesthesia,” “Generator,” “I Want to Conquer the World,” and “21st Century (Digital Boy),” all sounding as crisp as the days

Photos by Rich Howells Bad Religion played an energetic set at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia on Sunday.

they were recorded in the ‘80s and ‘90s.

One thing that has only bolstered BR’s staying power is this dedication to clear, quality sound. Every one of singer Greg Graffin’s words is annunciated and understood over the memorable hooks and three-part harmonies perfectly, a stark contrast to modern punk and hardcore’s reliance on raspy, screeching vocals and guttural growls. These words are biting enough.

The mix of old and new continued throughout the evening, jumping from their latest single, “F—k You,” to “Recipe for Hate” and “Suffer” and back again for “Robin Hood in Reverse.” Graffin commented that “F—k You” was a song “we should have written 30 years ago,” but the ease through which they navigated their past and present showed just how timeless their work is – their rebellious social commentary is just as relevant now as it was then.

What that says about the state of our country is a discussion for another time.

The group took several pauses to crack jokes and talk to the audi-

ence, keeping things light despite the heaviness behind many of the songs’ messages, yet they still managed to play 30 tunes, which felt like sing-a-longs due to the sheer number of fans who knew every lyric. Faces in the crowd lit up again and again as BR blustered through “Sanity,” “You,” “Do What You Want,” “Dearly Beloved,” “Epiphany,” “Against the Grain,” “Them and Us,” “A Walk,” and “American Jesus,” among others, with Graffin only pausing to point out the audience’s fondness for nostalgia.

“Sorrow,” from 2002’s “The Process of Belief,” likely sparked that feeling for many, as the radio hit brought it many new fans at the time, though the four-song encore of “F—k Armageddon… This Is Hell,” “Vanity,” “Infected,” and “Dept. of False Hope” made it clear that they could still play, and end on, more songs from their new album than from any other and still please fans of all ages and expectations.

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Emerging from basement jam sessions in Scranton, The Luddites are finally starting to make more musical appearances.

The self-described melodic pop punk rockers got their start in 2008 without any serious intentions, just to play music with some friends.

After a long start, and many extended breaks, the band is finally starting to get their name out there.

“We’ve been around since ‘08, and for some reason we’ve had a tough time getting shows,” Nelson Negron, drummer of the band, explained. “Now, all of a sudden, we’re starting to get a little bit of recognition, and it’s great. This is going to be our first headlining show, so I’m pretty excited about it.”

The three-piece consists of brothers Nathan and Nelson Negron and good friend Jonathon Renaldi, playing mostly original music while throwing in a few covers here and there. Renaldi writes a majority of the lyrics, keeping a rock ‘n’ roll attitude. Women are one of many subjects that inspire his writing.

“I was always surrounded by amazing writers, and I was inspired to write well,” Renaldi said. “I write what I see. I write about things I hate and things I love. With writing, I see more honesty in how I accept myself. It’s different when you’re surrounded by a wall of music. It’s easier to write about things and actually talk things through with people.”

The band has over an hour’s worth of original music to play.

When forming music together with Renaldi’s lyrics, the trio works as a team, adding in what they think fits just right.

“John will come up with an idea, and when we get together, that’s when we start throwing little things in there,” said Nathan.

After playing in many previous bands, even one including Eric Keen, mostly known for his work in The Menzingers, Nelson is not new to the music scene. However, it is a different story for his brother Nathan. Never touching a guitar in his life before March of 2008, Nathan was more or less forced into the band.

“I made Nathan play the bass,” said Nelson. “I didn’t give him a choice. I was like, ‘Learn how to play the bass guitar because you’re playing bass for us. ‘” Along with Nathan, Renaldi was also mistakenly pulled into the music world by a friend of his.

After being asked to join a friend’s band but having no musical skills or interest, Renaldi quickly picked up a guitar and jumped at the opportunity to play in a band.

The band has two shows coming up at New Visions Studio & Gallery (201 Vine St. Scranton); one titled “Punk-or-Die” on March 29 featuring local bands D-Grade Monsters, Warning Level, and Crock Pot Abduction, and another show in May, but that is just the start; they have discussed going on a short tour over the summer.

With high hopes for the future, Renaldi states, “I think the whole goal in bands is to tour, promote yourself, make records, meet different people, and network across

Punk-or-Die with The Luddites, D-Grade Monsters, Warning Level, and Crock Pot Abduction: March 29, 8 p.m., New Visions Studio & Gallery (201 Vine St. Scranton). $7.

states.”

While waiting for that muchneeded tour route to come into place, The Luddites continue to do what they do best: rocking out underground while playing the music that they love.

“We’re always going to be in a basement somewhere playing music,” said Nelson. “It’s just going to be that way.”

Courtesy Photos Melodic pop punk rock trio The Luddites are taking a heavier step out into the local music scene by booking more shows.

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West Side has its stories

King’s theater plans spark drama

By Karyn Montigney

By Andrew M. Seder

Weekender Intern

Scranton is a town full of art, culture, and diversity, so what better way to bring the community together than a storytelling fest?

Scranton StorySlam is the product of Madeline Zoe McNichols, who started the event as a high school senior project. Inspired by what she saw after attending a storyslam in Brooklyn, N.Y., she decided to bring the event home and do it Scranton-style.

This event brings 10 of the community’s finest together, challenging them to publicly tell a true story about anything, as long as it fits into the theme.

“Storytellers can take the audience in any direction. They might tell a scary story, they might tell a funny story. You never know what you’re going to get,” said Pamela McNichols, Zoe’s mother, in a recent interview with The Weekender.

Zoe and Pamela, who helps out with coordinating the event, try to choose participants who play an important role in society. In the past, storytellers have included school board members, authors, professors, students, comedians, actors, and more.

“We choose people who are active in the community, people who have been recommended as good storytellers, people who have rich and interesting lives – basically people that have the courage to tell a story,” McNichols explained.

“I find that writers are really good storytellers because they really know how to construct a story, so I like to look in that community.”

Each slam has a different theme.

The first Scranton StorySlam was “Warning Signs” and took place last March. Since then, there have been two other themed slams: “Dirty Laundry” which took place last summer, and “Game Changers,” which was last fall.

This year, the theme will cover each part of Scranton, including North, South, West, and even the The West Side Scranton StorySlam features: Kate Barrett Mark Dennebaum Cy Douaihy Joe Fasula Mike Foster Rich Howells Maureen Welby McNichols Tony Bartocci as the Master of Ceremonies Find out more at scrantonstoryslam.com.

West Side Scranton StorySlam: March 30, doors 6:30 p.m., show 7:30 p.m., Haggerty’s Tavern (421 N. Main Ave., Scranton). $5.

Hill Section, capturing the tales of each area.

“The main idea with this year’s storyslams is to bring the community together,” McNichols said.

“Maybe parts of the community that don’t know each other or that don’t really hang out together can kind of come together.”

The West Side StorySlam will be the first in this sequence. For this slam, the contestants chosen will tell a story that they have about growing up, living in, or just a random experience that they’ve had in Scranton’s West Side. Displaying the diversity of Scranton’s community is very important to the organizers.

“For the West Side one, we really were trying to capture the community, so we wanted some Italians, Irish, Lebanese, because they make up that community,” McNichols listed.

Along with the chosen storytellers, there are two or three participants randomly chosen from the audience for each slam. These people throw their names in a hat and are picked to compete and tell their story for the grand prize.

Since it is a competition storytelling contest, there is obviously a winner as well as judges to choose the winner. Four judges are selected prior to the event (this one includes Tom Borthwick, Alicia Grega, and Justine Johnson), and an additional judge is chosen from the audience on the day of the event. Judging is based on whether or not they thought it was a good story and if the contestant stayed within the time limit. Past winners were Mike Manzano, Andrea Talarico McGuigan, and Amye Archer.

The winner of the night receives the honorary “Slammy Award” as well as a cash prize. McNichols hopes to bring together all the winners at the end of the year to compete against each other in the Grand Slam.

The StorySlam is a rapidly growing event and the first of its kind in Northeast Penn.

“Scranton is our big city,” McNichols said. “We are into the arts scene there – the performing arts, the digital arts. We really seek growth, and we wanted to help it grow and be a part of it.”

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Special to the Weekender The planned growth of one of King’s College’s academic programs could lead to the relocation of another.

Discussions are ongoing between college administrators and heads of the physician assistant studies and theater arts programs.

One result may be the physician assistant studies’ program expanding into space now occupied by the George P. Maffei II Theatre on the first floor of the administration building.

If this moves forward, as early as this fall, the campus’ Theatre Arts Department and the theater the students practice and perform in will be relocated to the former Memorial Presbyterian Church on West North Street in Wilkes-Barre that has gone mostly unused since the school acquired it in 2011.

The brownstone building is as much a local landmark at the top of the West North Street hill as it was when it opened its doors in the 1870s.

College spokesman John McAndrew said nothing has been finalized and several options are on the table, including having the physician assistant studies program moving into the former church building and keeping the theater program in its current home.

McAndrew said none of the discussions would lead to the demise of the theater arts program or the elimination of a physical theater on the King’s College campus.

“King’s College is in the final stages of determining the feasibility of a plan to renovate the North Street Church facility into the college’s performing arts center. A final decision is contingent upon developing an adequate plan for interim Theatre program operations while the project is under construction.

“Administration and Theatre department faculty will be working together on those plans over the next few weeks. The outcome of those discussions and plans will determine the final action plan,” according to a college statement sent by McAndrew.

“If the renovation takes place, the current theatre space will be utilized to develop a state-of-theart lab and classroom facility allowing for the integration of Physician Assistant program facilities and expansion to meet the growing demand for the program,” the

Photo by Pete G. Wilcox/Times Leader Jonathan Vojtko of Wyoming watches Steph Burke of Queens, N.Y., use a circular power saw to cut a piece of wood as they work on the set of Shakespeare’s ‘King Richard III.’

statement went on. “Alternative plans are also available and ready to be implemented to support the expansion of the Physician Assistant program and to re-purpose the North Street Church facility.”

In an e-mail sent out Wednesday

by Sheileen Corbett, chairwoman of the school’s theatre arts department, to some department alumni, she urged alumni to contact King’s President Jack Ryan to voice displeasure. Her message informs alumni that this isn’t something being discussed, but something that has already been finalized, without her input.

“This is happening, beginning May 13th. We just finished renovation (of the theatre) in the amount of $750,000 from a gift donation. The promise is a renovated church, however, there is no funding and no plans for the project… Plans were set in stone before I or anyone from the theatre was ever consulted,” Corbett’s email, which was obtained by The Times Leader, stated.

Corbett, via an email to The Times Leader, noted that “nothing in that statement negates that fact that we have a start date for removal of equipment and construction on the existing theatre on May 13. There just are no plans in place or theatre funding for the future of the theatre.”

When asked further questions, she declined comment, stating that she “has been instructed” not to talk to the media.

McAndrew said part of the long-term plan of the college is to focus on programs that have growth potential and the Physi-

cian Assistant studies program is among those targeted. While student numbers in this major have remained steady – up 20 students to 209 this current year – it’s because there’s no room to grow, he added.

Any growth, he said, would likely come in the fifth- and sixthyear graduate program, not the undergraduate program.

McAndrew said targeted growth is expected to be about 30 students over the next four years.

Dwane Engelhardt, a 1981 King’s graduate and a theatre major, was one of several alumni to e-mail or call The Times Leader to express concern with the way the situation has been handled.

He said he hopes the school will do whatever it can to not only relocate the theatre, but also spend the money to do it right.

“Don’t just give them the building, a ramshackle place, and say, ‘It’s yours,’” said Engelhardt, of Kingston.

He said workshops and a design room need to be built and other renovations have to occur to get it to the level the current theater areas are at. Though he stopped short of accusing the school of plotting to end the program, he said art and music programs have been eliminated previously.

“They slowly kind of phase them out,” he said.

McAndrew adamantly denied this was the case for the theater program, which has 14 majors and seven minors.

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The ‘90s are over. It died at least 13 years ago. We’ve all stopped wearing our Blossom hats, humanely put down our Tamagotchis, and moved on. But some embarrassing elements from that decade still remain etched within our pop cultural landscape, and try as we might, we simply can’t escape them.

One of those more regrettable elements is the sight of a cartoon character who is so full of attitude and so unlike your Daddy’s cartoon character that it can’t help but snowboard down a totally gnarls mountain, brah! It’s amazing this concept lives on because even in the ‘90s, it was considered a desperate way to appeal to children and young adults.

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Tired of living under the rules of her fear-mongering father, the adventurous Eep (Emma Stone) sneaks out of the family cave one night and encounters Guy (Ryan Reynolds), a slightly more evolved cavemen who shares Eep’s lust for life.

Coincidentally, shortly after Eep’s escape, the family cave is destroyed by a violent earthquake.

With nowhere else to go, the Croods reluctantly follow Guy to greener pastures, even though his only solution is to “ride away on the sun.�

It’s unfortunate that “The Croods� only seems to reinforce John Kricafulusi’s lie that writers have no place in animation because throughout the film, the writers only seem to get in the way of the surreal invention of the animators. Taking place in a bizarre pastel-colored version of Pangea, the world of “The Croods� takes place in an odd alternate timeline in which whales walk on land, humans are attacked by large owl/bobcat hybrids, and piranhas have wings.

There’s a fun absurdist streak running throughout “The Croods,� but it’s constantly undercut by the achingly conventional storyline that

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Split personality

Ronan plays dual role in ‘The Host’

By Amy Longsdorf

Weekender Correspondent Twihards, take note. If you thought that Bella had a tough time trying to make up her mind between Edward and Jacob, wait until you meet Melanie Stryder, a teenager who finds herself in one of cinema’s most bizarre romantic triangles.

Based on “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer’s sci-fi bestseller, “The Host” is all about aliens who invade both earth and the bodies of human beings.

Saoirse Ronan stars as Melanie, one of the last human survivors who is eventually co-opted by a good-natured E.T. called Wanderer, or Wanda for short.

Playing host to Wanda might not be life-threatening for Melanie, but it does wreck havoc on her love life.

See, Melanie has the hots for Jared (Max Irons), while Wanda is smitten with Ian (Jake Abel).

Needless to say, it makes for a unique kind of relationship.

“Playing Wanda, I suppose, was a bit tricky because she’s in love with Ian, but at the same time, she has all of Melanie’s memories and emotions, so she’s attracted to Jared because Melanie is in love with him,” said Ronan, 18. “But Melanie doesn’t want Wanda to go anywhere near Jared because Jared is hers.

“It was very complicated, but we mapped out everything when it came to that sort of stuff.”

Directed by “Gattaca” helmer

Andrew Niccol, “The Host” (which co-stars William Hurt, Frances Fisher and Diane Kruger) is certainly not the first mash-up of sci-fi and love story, but just as Meyer’s “Twilight” books gave vampires a modern-day makeover, “The Host” updates the notion of invading aliens.

Nicknamed The Souls, the E.T.s try, in their way, to make the world a better place. They are, in Niccol’s words, more humane than humans. That said, not all earthlings are willing to get with the parasite program.

While the Souls usually extinguish the minds of the humans they’ve been implanted into, Melanie is strong-willed enough to co-exist with Wanda.

Being asked to play two characters at once was something of a dream come true for Ronan, who developed different accents and walks for each woman.

On the set, Ronan’s voiceovers as Wanda were piped into her ear via an earpiece so she could hear Wanda’s running dialogue with Melanie as she was performing those scenes.

So, how did Ronan like acting with herself?

“I was nervous because I had never worked with Saoirse before,” she says with a laugh.

“I’ve heard some stories. She’s a bit of a diva, I gotta say, for an Irish girl. No, it was fine. I really enjoyed it, I did.

“I knew what [Wanda’s] delivery was going to be every time in my ear, so it gave me the freedom to play around with different things and try different things out.”

When it came to “The Host’s” action scenes, Ronan was on firm footing. Three years ago, she appeared in Joe Wright’s “Hannah,” which required her to perform wall-to-wall stunts.

There were times on the set of “The Host” when Ronan surprised the crew with her willingness to get physical.

“For one scene, the second AD brought me over to this balcony and said, ‘How would you like to jump off of here? We have a harness so you’ll be completely safe, but we understand if you don’t want to do it.’

“I said, ‘I’ll do it. I want to do it.’ I wanted them to be able to get as many shots as they could get. The whole crew and AD team had a bet that I wouldn’t do it because it was so high up, but the second AD thought I would do it, so she won 40 bucks. That was fun.”

Past, present, and future Ronan comes by her love of acting naturally. The only child

Saoirse Ronan finds herself wrapped up in a bizarre love triangle, as well as a bit of twofaced turmoil of her own, in ‘The Host.’

of Irish actor Paul Ronan (“The Devil’s Own”) and wife Monica, Saoirse was born in the Bronx.

At the age of three, she returned with her parents to their native land.

While she’s worked all over the world, she still considers Dublin home. “I’ve found that while I’ve been away, my accent gets stronger and I become more Irish,” she noted. “I become more patriotic.”

Ronan was already a veteran of British TV by the time she snagged the life-changing part of aspiring novelist Briony Tallis in “Atonement.” The movie earned Ronan rave reviews and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination.

Since then, Ronan has turned in a number of well-received performances in “The Lovely Bones,” “Hanna,” and “The Way Back.” In those films, she portrayed a suburban Philadelphia murder victim, a teenage assassin, and a Polish orphan, respectively.

If Ronan has regrets about working through her childhood, she’s not letting on. “The thing is, I never take [stardom] for granted, but at the same time, it’s just one part of my life,” she explained. “It doesn’t overwhelm me too much. I’ve been dealing with it since I was 10.”

It’s likely that Ronan will be dealing with success for a little while longer. At the moment, she has a handful of films in various stages of production, including May’s vampire thriller “Byzantium” and the post-apocalyptic romance “How I Live Now,” which is due in September.

This summer, Ronan is scheduled to begin shooting “How To Catch A Monster,” which marks her pal Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut. “Mad Men’s” Christina Hendricks stars as single mom whose teenage son uncovers a mysterious underwater town.

At the moment, Ronan is finishing up “The Grand Budapest Hotel” for one of her favorite directors, “Moonrise Kingdom’s” Wes Anderson. “Wes always has amazing casts in his films, and he has a brilliant, brilliant cast in this,” said Ronan of the 2014 film about a hotel’s “perfectly composed” concierge.

“We all have dinner together every single night. I’m sitting down at a table where Wes is at the top, and there’s Harvey Keitel and Willem Dafoe and Ralph Fiennes and Bill Murray.

Amazing. There’s moments like that when suddenly everything is a bit too surreal.”

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BENEFITS/CHARITY EVENTS AmERICAN CANCER SoCIETY RElAY FoR lIFE EVENTS mEETINgS: ApRIl 1, 6 p.m., SAxToN pAVIlIoN, EdwARdSVIllE. SpRINg CRAFT FAIR TEAm FuNdRAISER: ApRIl 6, 10 A.m.-3 p.m., CRESTwood HIgH SCHool (281 S. mouNTAIN BlVd., mouNTAIN Top).

BluE CHIp FARmS ANImAl REFugE (974 loCkVIllE Rd., dAllAS, 570.333.5265, www.BCFANImAlREFugE.oRg) • First annual motorcycle run: mAY 12. REgISTRATIoN 11 A.m.-NooN, BEgINS AT 12:15. BEgINS ANd ENdS AT gETAwAY louNgE (RouTE 11, plYmouTH) uNICo NATIoNAl kEYSToNE CHApTER (duNmoRE) • charity Pig roast: aPril 13, 6-10 p.m., FIoREllI’S (pECkVIllE). $45 pER pERSoN. VICTImS RESouRCE CENTER (71 NoRTH FRANklIN ST, 570.823.0765, www.VRCNEpA.oRg) • 28th annual geranium sale: oRdERS muST BE plACEd BY ApRIl 26. gERANIumS wIll BE AVAIlABlE FoR pICk-up/dElIVERY THE wEEk oF mAY

7-10. pINk oR REd gERANIumS IN 4INCH poTS, $3.50 EACH. VoluNTEERS oF AmERICA (25 N. RIVER ST., wIlkES-BARRE, 570.825.5261) • 9th annual celebrity Dinner: ApRIl 11, THE woodlANdS INN ANd RESoRT (1073 HIgHwAY 315,wIlkESBARRE). $125 pER pERSoN. INFo: lIz, 570.825.5261, ExT. 8.

CAR & BIkE EVENTS 2013 NEpA moToRCYClE ANd powERSpoRTS SHow: ApRIl 14, NooN-5 p.m., moHEgAN SuN ARENA AT CASEY plAzA (255 HIgHlANd pARk BlVd, wIlkES-BARRE). pRoCEEdS FRom THE SHow go To wYomINg VAllEY CHIldREN’S ASSoCIATIoN. $7.50 pER BIkE, REgISTRATIoN dAY-oF FRom 9-11 A.m. moToRCYClES wITH moRE THAN ½ TANk oF FuEl NoT pERmITTEd. $7.50, AdmISSIoN; FREE, CHIldREN uNdER 12. guNNERS pA lAw ENFoRCEmENT mC (guNNERSpAlEmC@gmAIl.Com, $20/ RIdER, $10/pASSENgER uNlESS NoTEd oTHERwISE) 2Nd ANNuAl pRojECT FAllEN RIdE:

mAY 5, 10 A.m., SuSquEHENNA BREwINg Co. INFo: guNNERSpAlEmC.Com. CHuRCHES FIRST pRESBYTERIAN CHuRCH oF ClARkS SummIT (300 SCHool ST., ClARkS SummIT, 570.586.6306, www.FpCCS.oRg) • Final concert oF the arts at First pRESBYTERIAN CHuRCHFINAl CoNCERT: ApRIl 7, 4 p.m. 300 SCHool STREET, ClARkS SummIT ST. FAuSTINA kowAlSkA’S CATHolIC CHuRCH • annual basket raFFle FunDraiser: ApRIl 14, dooRS 10:30 A.m., dRAwINg BEgINS AT 1 p.m, ST. STAN’S gYmNASIum (wEST CHuRCH STREET, NANTICokE).

TICkETS To BId oN THE BASkETS CoST $5 A RAFFlE TICkET, wHICH CoNTAINS 25 INdIVIduAl TICkETS. ST. mICHAEl’S CHuRCH (CoRNER oF CHuRCH/wINTER STS., old FoRgE, 570.457.2875) • Pierogie sale: march 27, Pick-uP FRom 2-5 p.m. oRdERS BY mARCH 21. $6 pER dozEN. To plACE oRdERS CAll SANdRA, 570.457.9280 oR THE CHuRCH HAll, 570.457.2875. uNITY oF NEpA:

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A SpIRITuAl CENTER (140 S. gRANT ST., wIlkES-BARRE) guEST SpEAkER ANN mARIE ACACIo: ApRIl 7, 10 A.m. oNENESS BlESSINg wITH ERNIE pAppA: ApRIl 8, 22, 7-9 p.m. $8. dEVElopINg EFFECTIVE TEAmS: TRANSFoRmINg TEAmS INTo SACREd CIRClES oF SERVICE wEBINAR: ApRIl 10, 7-9 p.m.

SpIRITuAl lIBERATIoN wITH mICHAEl BECkwITH: ApRIl 13, 6:30-9 p.m.

THE BRIdgE ClASS: ApRIl 17, 6:30-9 p.m.

RE-NEw uNITY woRkSHop ANd luNCHEoN: ApRIl 20, 9:30 A.m.-3:30 p.m. $30, BoTH woRkSHopS; $20, oNE woRkSHop. lImITEd To 50 pARTICpANTS; RESERVATIoNS REquIREd. EVENTS 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.

CHoRAl ARTS oF luzERNE CouNTY (www.CHoRAlARTSlC.oRg) • sPring concert/FiFth season CElEBRATIoN: ApRIl 27, 7:30 p.m., FIRST

pRESBYTERIAN CHuRCH (97 S. FRANklIN ST., wIlkES-BARRE); ApRIl 28, 4 p.m., CHRIST luTHERAN CHuRCH (467 mAIN ST., CoNYNgHAm). $15, AdulTS; $10, STudENTS ANd SENIoRS. CHoRAl SoCIETY oF NoRTHEAST pENNSYlVANIA • chilDren anD youth ensembles mId-wINTER pRogRAm: ApRIl 7, 3 p.m., ST. lukE’S EpISCopAl CHuRCH, SCRANToN. $10, AdulTS; 18 YEARS ANd YouNgER, FREE; $2 dISCouNT FoR SENIoRS, STudENTS, lACkAwANNA lIBRARY SYSTEm CARd HoldERS, mEmBERS oF wVIA, ANd mEmBERS oF THE RAYmoNd Hood Room AT THE SCRANToN CulTuRAl CENTER. 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).

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7 Litigious sort 8 Middle Eastern dish 10 Bethlehem’s region 11 Ball game segment 13 New Orleans neighborhood 16 Barbie’s companion 17 Hosiery shade 18 Shaft of light 19 “An Inconvenient Truth” narrator 20 Enticement 21 Chris of tennis lore 23 19th President 25 Leave out 26 Cartoonist Goldberg 27 Help 28 Inscribed pillar 30 “Suburgatory” airer 33 Ice cream flavor 36 Evening affair 37 Sorrow 38 Slow critter 39 Ear-related 40 Spring mo.

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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. Jason Miller Playwrights Project (570.591.1378, nepAplAywrightS@ live.coM) • DrAMAtiStS Support group: thirD 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.

King’s College Theatre (ADMin. BlDg., 133 n. river St., wilKeSBArre, 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:” April 5-6, 7 p.M.; April 7, 1 p.M., phoenix perforMing ArtS centre (409-411 MAin St., DuryeA). $12.

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:” through 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: • 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.,

Send your listings to WBWnews@civitasmedia.com, 90 E. Market St., WilkesBarre, 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.

SAt., 2 & 8 p.M., Sun., 1 & 6 p.M. Stage Directions Performing Arts Academy : July 28-Aug. 3, 9 A.M.-5 p.M. DAily, ferrwooD MuSic cAMp (257 MiDDle roAD, DruMS). co-eD , AgeS 6-18.

Theatre at the Grove (5177 nuAngolA roAD, nuAngolA. nuAngolAgrove.coM, 570.868.8212, groveticKetS@frontier.coM) ticKet pricing: $18, plAyS; $20, MuSicAlS; $86, SuMMer pASS, firSt five ShowS; $120, SeASon pASS. All ShowS Are ByoB AnD feAture cABAret SeAting.

• “ring of fire: the MuSic of Johnny cASh:” April 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27, 8 p.M.; April 14, 21, 28, 3 p.M. • “neil SiMon’S Brighton BeAch MeMoirS:” MAy 10, 11, 16-18, 8 p.M.; MAy 12, 19, 3 p.M. • “Annie get your gun:” June 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29, 8 p.M.; June 16, 23, 30, 3 p.M. • “cAtS:” July 26, 27, Aug. 2, 3, 8-10, 8 p.M.; July 28, Aug. 4, 11, 3 p.M. • “the MouSetrAp:” Sept. 13, 14, 1921, 8 p.M.; Sept. 15, 22, 3 p.M. • “Sweeney toDD: the DeMon BArBer of fleet Street:” oct. 18, 19, 25, 26, nov. 1, 2, 8 p.M.; oct. 20, 27, nov. 3, 3 p.M. • “it’S A wonDerful life:” nov. 29, 30, Dec. 6, 7, 12-14, 8 p.M.; Dec. 1, 8, 15, 3 p.M. The Vintage Theater (326 Spruce St., ScrAnton, info@ ScrAntonSvintAgetheAter.coM) • ScrAnton coMeDy night: MArch 30, DoorS 7 p.M., Show At 8. $5.

Wyoming Area Drama Club (wyoMing AreA SeconDAry center, 20 MeMoriAl St., exeter.)

• “SeuSSicAl the MuSicAl:” April 1213, 7 p.M.; April 14, 2 p.M. $10.

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ing Hector, there was danger involved as his identity unraveled. His soft exterior masked a brutish interior, one that had no less captured Sophie’s heart.

It is revealed that Hector is the maestro behind a large crime network that orchestrates narcotic and weapon trafficking around the world. As other crime organizations become aware of Hector’s success, many seek to usurp him. The most confident of them all is a repugnant German crime boss who has no reservations when it comes to cruelty.

Unfortunately, with Sophie being added to the mix, she soon becomes a target and almost instantaneously her life goes from dull to risky.

Other than Sophie, the work lacks many endearing characters. However, Sophie’s resolute compassion and naivety brings a positive serenity to a world full of darkness, balancing the scale.

The unraveling and expansive nature of Söderberg’s first piece of the puzzle that is this series will no doubt grow more compelling in time.

Books released the week of April 1: • ‘Life after Life’ by Kate Atkinson • ‘Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal’ by Mary Roach • ‘A Broth of Betrayal (Soup Lover’s Mystery Series #2)’ by Connie Archer • ‘Fever (The Breathless Trilogy #2)’ by Maya Banks

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Sophie Brinkmann lives a seemingly quiet life. A young widower, Sophie divides her time between raising her teenage son, Albert, as a single mother and working as a nurse in a Stockholm hospital. Most of the time Sophie’s life is nothing more than a blank white page, but one stroke of fate is about to change that.

In “The Andalucian Friend”

by Alexander Söderberg, readers are introduced to a new Swedish crime series that follows leading lady, Sophie. The work, which is the first for Söderberg, is part one of a trilogy.

As the first installment, readers are introduced to pivotal character, Hector Guzman, who, after a hit-and-run, is brought to the emergency room. Naturally, Sophie comes to his aid. As time advances, Sophie begins to develop feelings for Hector, extending into a welcoming and loving companionship that Hector likewise initiates through flirtation - but not everything is as it seems.

When readers first become acquainted with Sophie, we are given a glimpse of her the night before she meets Hector: “Sophie went on as normal. She cleared the table, tidied up, watched some television, called a friend and talked about nothing — and the evening passed. She went up to bed and tried to read some of the book on her bedside table, about a woman who had found a new life helping the street children of Bucharest. The book was dull; the woman was pretentious and Sophie had nothing in common with her. She closed the book and fell asleep alone in her bed as usual.”

Before Hector, what Sophie failed to recognize was that while she was not like the protagonist, she did share a commonality with the book: her life was just as lackluster. Now, in meet-

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AGENDA, FROM PAGE 28 • 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.

• philadelphia BuS trip tO the BarneS: april 11, BuS departS 7 a.m., returnS apprOximately 10 p.m. $135 • tOm Knight puppet ShOw: april 17, 1:30 p.m.

• philadelphia BuS trip tO the BarneS: april 11, departS 7 a.m. returnS 10 p.m. $135.

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: • Kundalini yOga: ageS 16 and up.

10-11:30 a.m., SerieS 3 april 27, may 4, 11, 18. $40, FOur ClaSSeS; $15, drOp-in.

Eighth Annual Mothers Day Intertribal Powwow: may 11, nOOn-6 p.m., may 12, nOOn-5 p.m., nOxen Fire CO. FOundS (Stull rOad, nOxen, wyOming COunty). Free.

FOr mOre inFOrmatiOn COntaCt natalie “wiSteria” at 570.947.2097 Or via email at wiSteria18704@ yahOO.COm. The Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce (222 mulBerry St., SCrantOn) • ladieS night at the COuntry CluB: april 3, 5-8 p.m., glen OaK COuntry CluB (250 OaKFOrd rOad, ClarKS Summit) • develOp Key aCtiOnS tO Create mOre meaningFul COnverSatiOnS: april 10, 8 a.m.

• leaderShip laCKawanna alumni reuniOn: april 10, 5:30 p.m.

• emplOyment expO: april 11, 11 a.m. irem CluBhOuSe (64 ridgeway drive, dallaS) • eaSter BuFFet: marCh 31, nOOn-4 p.m.

• health aging Seminar: minding the mind: april 10, 2-3 p.m.

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.

Johnson College (3427 n. main ave., SCrantOn, 570.342.6404, JOhnSOn.edu) • 21St annual gOlF tOurnament: may 17, Blue ridge trail gOlF CluB, mOuntain tOp. inFO: Stephanie OrzaleK, COOrdinatOr OF inStitutiOnal advanCement, 570.702.8908 Or SOrzaleK@JOhnSOn.edu.

King’s College (133 nOrth river St., wilKeS-Barre, 570.208.5957 Or KingS.edu)

• CantOreS ChriSti regiS Spring COnCert: april 19-20, 7:30 p.m. J. CarrOll mCCOrmiCK CampuS miniStry Center. Free. inFO: 570.208.6044.

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: thrOugh april 19.

• live native animalS: april 3, 6:30-8 p.m. $5.

• amphiBian walK: april 17, 6-8 p.m. $5. pre-regiStratiOn reQuired.

• art in nature: Clay pOt wreathS: april 20, 9 a.m.-nOOn. $25. pre-regiStratiOn reQuired.

• art Opening: three artiStS FrOm elmhurSt: april 26, 5-7 p.m. runS thrOugh June 3.

Lake-Lehman Last Knight 2013 Graduation Night Lock-in vera Bradley/COaCh BingO FundraiSer: april 6, 1 p.m., dOOrS at nOOn. laKe lehman high SChOOl (Old rOute 115, lehman). $20, 20 gameS OF BingO. FOr advanCe tiCKetS COntaCt amy, 570.239.0737.

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) • adult learner Open hOuSe FOr expreSSway aCCelerated degree prOgram: april 9, 4-7 p.m., rOOm 405, Building 4, lCCC (1333 S. prOSpeCt St., nantiCOKe); april 10, 4-7 p.m., laCKawanna COllege BOardrOOm (145 e. BrOad St., hazletOn); april 18, 4-6 p.m., laCKawanna COllegehazletOn Center (145 e. BrOad St., hazletOn).

• “impOrtanCe OF Keeping reCOrdS FOr liBrarieS and natiOnal arChiveS” preSentatiOn: april 16, 4:30 p.m., mary Kintz BevevinO liBrary.

Monroe County Garden Club • meeting: april 10, 11:30 a.m.. mOnrOe COunty COnServatiOn diStriCt envirOnmental eduCatiOn Center (8050 running valley rd., StrOudSBurg). Free, memBerS; $5, gueStS. mOuntain grange nO. 567 • mOnthly FleamarKet: SeCOnd Saturday OF eaCh mOnth. 9 a.m.-2 p.m., mOuntain grange hall (1632 w.

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Nescopeck State Park (1137 hOney hOle rd., drumS, 570.403.2006) • 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. The Osterhout Free Library (71 S. FranKlin St., wilKeS-Barre, www.OSterhOut.inFO, 570.821.1959) • 29th annual geOrge ralStOn gOlF ClaSSiC hOSted By the rOtary CluB OF wilKeS-Barre: april 26, mill raCe gOlF COurSe, BentOn. regiStratiOn BeginS 11 a.m., ShOtgun Start at nOOn. $100 per perSOn. tO regiSter, Be a SpOnSOr, Or dOnate a prize, COntaCt ChriStOpher Kelly at 570.823.0156, ext. 218 Or CKelly@ OSterhOut.liB.pa.uS. 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 thrOugh april 18, 7 p.m., r/C wilKeS-Barre mOvieS 14 (24 e. nOrthamptOn St., wilKeS-Barre) FriendS OF Salt SpringS parK (pO BOx 541, mOntrOSe. 570.967.7275, inFO@FriendSOFSaltSpringSparK. Org.) • ChainSaw day: april 13, 9 a.m. preregiSter: 570.967.7275.

• trail Clean up day: april 20, 11 a.m. pre-regiSter: 570.967.7275.

• CyCle & reCyCle - CeleBrate earth day: april 21, 12:30-5 p.m. rain date, april 28.

• egg hunt: april 27, 1-4 p.m.

Salvation Army • annual awardS dinner: may 16, 5:30 p.m., BeSt weStern genetti hOtel and COnventiOn Center (77 eaSt marKet Street, wilKeS-Barre). reServatiOnS By COntaCting lieutenant SharOn treSSler at the SalvatiOn army at SharOn.treSSler@uSe. SalvatiOnarmy.Org Or 570.824.8741.

Scranton Cultural Center (420 n. waShingtOn ave., SCrantOn, 570.346.7369, SCrantOnCulturalCenter.Org) • “the view” with a SCrantOn attitude: april 5, 7 p.m., COCKtail hOur at 6. $6.

Sons of the American Legion Post 781 (ChurCh rd. mOuntain tOp, 570.474.2161, alpOSt781.Org) • 5th annual Flea marKet: may 5, 7 a.m.-5 p.m. $10 under COver with taBle Or $5 in yard, ByOt. regiStratiOn By phOne, 570.474.2161.

The University of Scranton (800 linden St., SCrantOn, 570.941.7400, SCrantOn.edu) • alumni day OF ServiCe, Clean-up OF laCKawanna river heritage trail: april 13, 10 a.m. tO vOlunteer Call 570.941.4263.

• hill SeCtiOn Street Sweep and alumni day OF ServiCe: april 14 1 p.m. tO vOlunteer Call 570.941.4263.

• perFOrmanCe muSiC preSentS “in COnCert” Featuring the univerSity OF SCrantOn SingerS with the manhattan SChOOl OF muSiC BraSS OrCheStra: april 7, 7:30 p.m., hOulihan mClean Center.

• “Federal and internatiOnal gun COntrOl: an hiStOriCal perSpeC-

tive” leCture: april 8, 4:30 p.m., rOSe rOOm, Brennan hall.

• BrOwn Bag lunCh: “eQual pay day” a puBliC awareneSS event tO illuStrate the gap Between men’S and wOmen’S wageS: april 9, 11:45 a.m., mCdOnnell rOOm, denapleS Center.

Waverly Community House (1115 n. aBingtOn rd., waverly, waverlyCOmm.Org) • 21St annual hOuSe, garden and giFt ShOw: april 27, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; april 28, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

• Beginner’S italian: eight weeKS Beginning april 9, 7-8 p.m. wayne COunty BuilderS aSSOCiatiOn (www.wayneCOuntyBuilderS.COm ) • hOme and garden FeStival: april 27, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; april 28, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., ladOre Camp retreat and COnFerenCe Center (OFF OwegO turnpiKe, waymart). Free tO the puBliC. • 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) • 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.

• panel diSCuSSiOn: StrategieS that will help yOung peOple SuCCeed in SChOOl and in liFe with SpeaKerS mahmOud Fahmy, raBBi larry Kaplan, rev. rOBert zaniCKy, and mOnSignOr vinCent grimalia: april 16, 4:30 p.m., henry Student Center BallrOOm. • allan hamiltOn diCKSOn Spring writerS SerieS: 7 p.m., KirBy SalOn. marCh 18, JeFF mOCK and margOt SChilpp; april 15, tim parriSh. • max rOSenn leCture By nOah Feldman: april 28. wyOming COunty ChamBer OF COmmerCe • 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. • 21St Birthday BlOCK party: may 3, 6-10 p.m., COmFOrt inn & SuiteS (5 n. eatOn rOad, tunKhannOCK). $35, in advanCe; $45 at the dOOr. tiCKetS Can Be purChaSed Online at www. wyCCC.COm Or By Calling deBOrah at 570.875.8325.

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COurSe, new Bridge Center (480 pierCe St., Suite 117 KingStOn) and mOndayS, 6:30 p.m., 29th Street OFFiCe COmplex, 1201a ChurCh St., hazletOn. $25, per wOrKShOp; $125, all Six. tO regiSter Call 570.643.0222. FOr mOre inFO viSit www.aQueStFOragOOdliFe.COm. ArtWorks Gallery & Studio (503 laCKawanna ave., SCrantOn. 570.207.1815, artwOrKSnepa.COm): Children’S ClaSSeS • the yOung artiSt explOreS: SaturdayS, april 6, 13, 20, 27, nOOn-1 p.m. ageS 5-12. $100, inCludeS all SupplieS. teen and adult ClaSSeS and wOrKShOpS • wet & wild: watermedia painting: SerieS ii: marCh 26, april 2, 9, 6-8 p.m. $100.

• drawing wOrKShOpS with nina davidOwitz at artwOrKS: intrOduCtiOn tO COlOred penCil drawing, april 4, 11, 18, 25, 6-8 p.m., $100.

• intrOduCtiOn tO COlOred penCil drawing: april 4, 11, 18, 25, 6-8 p.m. $100.

• all aBOut theatre FOr very SpeCial artiStS: wedneSdayS, 5:30-7 p.m. $95, per SerieS. all SupplieS inCluded. SerieS ii: april 3, 10, 17, 24, may 1, 8. perFOrmanCe may 8 at 7 p.m.

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Planning a wedding can be overwhelming, but don’t run away just yet - The Weekender is here to help.

PLANNING YOUR SPECIAL DAY

By Sara Pokorny

Weekender Staff Writer

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our words in the form of a question can change everything: Will you marry me?

It’s exhilarating, a moment charged by love and happiness that lingers on and on as the news is spread to family and friends. “I’m going to spend the rest of my life with this person,” you say, and it’s thrilling – until the second it starts to wear off and reality hits.

Now we have to plan this thing.

It’s no secret that putting a wedding together can be

daunting, but it doesn’t have to be according to Rebecca Barry of Harding, who runs Rebecca Barry Events. Barry doesn’t only know the feeling from a professional standpoint but a personal one, as she got married this past October.

“There’s a lot to do, of course, but it’s just a matter of taking it one step at a time,” Barry said.

“And I won’t lie, it’s not going to be easy. Something will go wrong; it always does. But what you need to concentrate on is the fact that you’re marrying your best friend, the love of your life, and what happens in between is just going to happen, but the end result is what matters.”

Barry can’t put a finger on one particular facet that’s constantly overlooked, though she will say that it’s most often the small things. Hitches to keep in mind include transportation (“I’ve talked to so many limo places that have couples coming in a week before the wedding to book a ride.”), asking the right questions (“Couples need to write down everything they need to know about something from a vendor to avoid overlooking hidden fees.”), and even bridal accessories (“When I got married, I had my dress, shoes, and jewelry and was so excited, until my mom was like ‘Hey, what about a veil?’”).W

PICK A DATE. SELECT YOUR RECEPTION AND CEREMONY VENUES. (MAKE SURE TO RESERVE ROOMS AT A NEARBY HOTEL FOR ANY OUTOF-TOWNERS.) SELECT AN OFFICIANT. MAKE A GUEST LIST. SEND OUT SAVE THE DATES. PICK OUT A PROPER INVITATION. SIGN UP FOR A REGISTRY. SHOP FOR A GOWN, AS WELL AS ACCESSORIES TO GO ALONG WITH. SEEK OUT A STYLIST TO DO YOUR HAIR AND MAKEUP, AS WELL AS THE WEDDING PARTY’S, IF YOU WISH. FIGURE OUT BRIDESMAID AND GROOMSMEN ATTIRE. BOOK YOUR HONEYMOON. (DON’T FORGET THE PASSPORTS AND PAPERWORK IF YOU’RE GOING SOMEWHERE OUT OF THE COUNTRY.) PURCHASE WEDDING RINGS. DECIDE UPON WEDDING FAVORS. PLAN THE BRIDAL SHOWER. PLAN BACHELOR AND BACHELORETTE PARTIES. BOOK A PLACE FOR THE REHEARSAL DINNER. GIVE GIFTS TO THE WEDDING PARTY OR ANYONE ELSE YOU SEE FIT THAT’S INVOLVED IN THE WEDDING. GET YOUR MARRIAGE LICENSE. HIT UP VENDORS FOR YOUR FOLLOWING NEEDS: PHOTOGRAPHER/ VIDEOGRAPHER, FLOWERS, DÉCOR, FOOD, ENTERTAINMENT, AND TRANSPORTATION.

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e asked you, our readers, for your funny or interesting engagement and wedding stories online last week, so here are some of our favorites.

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cranton resident Rob Lettieri has plenty of stories as a wedding photographer, but one of his funniest was when a thunderstorm hit the wedding area and the power went out while the band, featuring local jazz/blues musicians Marko Marcinko and Clarence Spady, was trying to play. As candles were lit under their tent for light, someone produced a generator, but it ran out of gasoline, leaving only the drums for music. Marcinko kept the beat while Spady would run for gas, filling the generator periodically.

“They had to position it far away from the tent with a long extension cord because of the noise competing with the music. It was hysterical,” Lettieri recalled.

“Everyone had a blast, and they didn’t let the power outage ruin anything at all!”

WHAT’S BROKEN IS FIXED

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anielle McCullough, a former Scranton resident, and

her husband, Patrick, of Philadelphia set their wedding date for Sept. 18, 2010, shortly after their engagement Feb. 4, 2009. By the end of January 2010, they had arranged the church and venue, picked the best man and maid of honor, and Danielle had her dress.

Everything seemed set until one night in February. The couple met some friends at a bar where a man tried to steal one of their friend’s purses, but Danielle was quicker and snatched the bag back. After an argument, the attempted thief was kicked out.

The group stepped out of the bar for a smoke when the man returned to quarrel with the bouncer again, attacking Patrick and dislocating his shoulder.

Weeks later, his job was downsized, making it difficult to pay for medical bills and physical therapy on one income while trying to plan a wedding.

On March 11, Danielle randomly woke her fiancé and said, “Let’s get married.” While shocked, he happily agreed that they would marry just days later on St. Patrick’s Day, going to the courthouse to get the license that day. They called a friend to perform the ceremony on the steps of Patrick’s childhood home in the City of Brotherly Love, saying their written vows in front of close family, but in true Scranton fashion, the McCulloughs celebrated the holiday afterward and have every year since.

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he guests at the Aug. 19, 2012 wedding of Brian and Lisa Avrich of Dunmore couldn’t wait for the party to begin, pre-gaming prior to the ceremony and accidentally tipping a beer bottle that noisily rolled around as the couple exchanged their vows. They had such a fun service and reception at the Inne of the Abingtons, giving out red chocolate Rocky Horror Picture Show lips to guests and banning all synchronized dance music (with the exception of “The Time Warp,” of course) from the festivities, that some attendees of another wedding at the Inne decided to sneak in.

They were easily caught, however.

“It really isn’t a good idea to go up to the groom while waiting for a beer and ask him where the bride and groom are so you can congratulate them,” Brian said.

Everything worked out fine, however, and the party continued into the evening at a surprise post-reception private gathering at The Keys in Scranton, the couple’s favorite bar, and the man and woman who caught the garter and bouquet actually ended up being the next to be married. W

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ever mind the teeming rain.

On the day before she exchanged vows with Rick Park under her favorite willow tree at Lake Louise in July, the former Morgan Carey ventured out into a storm with 10 people, including her 93-year-old grandmother, to pick Queen Anne’s lace for the homemade bridal centerpieces.

Her cousin and her sister helped the bride dig moss out of the lake to add to the decor, someone found a nice round rock to serve as the ring-bearer’s cushion, and the festivities included a bonfire.

Is it any surprise that under her formal white gown, the bride wore a bright blue pair of Converse sneakers?

Actually, the bride admits, that was in keeping with a tradition – of her own making.

“For my confirmation, I wore sneakers. For high school graduation, I wore sneakers.

For First Holy Communion, I wore sneakers,” she said. “So it seemed fitting.”

In a way, that sentence sums up the perfect wedding.

However a bride and groom decide to celebrate, it should feel right to them. It should “fit.”

Perhaps they want to share with their guests the DJ music they’ve enjoyed at several of their friends’ weddings; perhaps they prefer to opt for fiddles, banjos, and a square dance.

A couple might write their own vows, or they might be more than happy to recite the age-old “for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer” pledge their parents and grandparents promised before them.

A bride might join a long line of women who carried the same family Bible; a groom might be the most recent of many generations to get married under the family chuppah, or canopy.

Or a couple might decide to be the first in their families to have a camouflage-themed wedding, perhaps in honor of their enthusiasm for the outdoors.

For Rachel Rosenbaum and Joshua Stewart of Bloomsburg, an out-of-the-ordinary addition to their wedding resulted in a special keepsake.

They ordered a guestbook signature tree the groom spotted on etsy.com and set out several ink pads in shades of green and yellow. Each guest was invited to dip his or her thumb into the ink and “add a leaf” to the tree that way.

“We were afraid if we did the (conventional) guest book, it would be closed and put away,” the bride said. “But this is framed and put on the wall. You can see it and reminisce about who came.”

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Since the fall of 2008 the area has also seemed to serve as a second home for Lil Wayne. The platinum-selling artist announced this week that he will perform yet again on the main stage at Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain. “The America’s Most Wanted Music Festival 2013” stops in Moosic on July 21. T.I. and Future will support the bill.

Wayne toured under the same moniker in 2009, stopping at Montage with Young Jeezy, Soulja Boy, Jeremih, Drake, and Nicki Minaj in tow. He returned to Toyota Pavilion in 2011 with the “I Am Still Music” tour featuring Rick Ross, Keri Hilson, Far East Movement, and Lloyd.

On October 29, 2008, independent promoter E&R Entertainment brought the rapper to what is now known as the Mohegan Sun Arena. The performance came at arguably the height of his career; Wayne’s “Tha Carter III” had debuted the previous June with a million copies sold. Prior to showing up in Northeastern Pennsylvania, the artist no-showed appearances in Rochester, N.Y. and Boston.

Lil Wayne released “I Am Not a Human Being II” on Tuesday.

He was released from a Los Angeles hospital after another bout with seizures last week. As of press time, no on-sale date or

X-FACTOR RUNNERUP WORKING ON DEBUT ALBUM Good news for “Carly’s Angels.”the name given to fans of Carly Rose Sonenclar. It seems “The X-Factor” runner-up will have no problem releasing her album to the masses.

“I’m in pre-production on my album,” Sonenclar told me inside the Hard Rock Café in Times Square. The Westchester, NY native attended J-14’s “Little Mix” showcase. “I got signed to Simon Cowell’s company, so they picked up my recording option, which I’m very happy about.”

The 13 year-old has good reason to be pleased. It is hard enough for winners, let alone second and third place finishers, to release music on a large scale following a reality TV show.

Now signed with Cowell’s SYCO Music, Sonenclar is almost guaranteed a major record label debut with Sony Music Entertainment, probably through either the Epic or Columbia Records imprint.

“I’ve been in the studio, I’m finishing school and stuff like that,” said the teenager, who is back in New York where she will record most of her music.

Sonenclar even brought a group of her friends down to the red carpet at the Hard Rock Café for the event.

Another friend that Carly Rose hopes to talk with soon is Britney Spears.

“She just switched agents to my agent, so now hopefully I’m going to be able to get in touch with her,” she said. Spears left William Morris Endeavor for Creative Artists Agency after calling off her engagement with Jason Trawick. He represented Spears, but later stepped down as her agent to focus on their relationship.

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alk to floral designer David Stout about what your bridesmaids will wear and he’ll suggest flowers that “pop.”

“I tell people, ‘Don’t get flowers that match the gowns. Get something that complements the gowns.’”

So if a dress is coral?

“Maybe a hot pink, yellow, or lavender,” advised Stout, who works at Mattern’s Florist in Kingston.

What if a gown is green?

“Oh, if it’s green, you can get really crazy and go into oranges and creams and offtone greens.”

As for the bride, more often than not, she’ll carry something especially vivid that stands out against the white or cream of her dress.

“We do very few bridal bouquets that are actually solid white,” Stout said. “They’re more likely to be all yellow

or all red – flowers that really pop.”

But, of course, there’s room for the traditional.

“My florist tried to get me to incorporate pink flowers or ribbons or any kind of color. He was extremely surprised that I decided to keep them colorless,” said Holly Sirkin, formerly of Kingston, who carried white

calla lilies when she married Eric Danko in November in Washington, D.C. “I felt that having colorful bouquets would take away from the dresses, and I wanted the

personalities. My bouquet was a combination of all their flowers put together.”

“It’s really cool to do something like that,” Stout said, admitting he hasn’t seen that very often. What the designer has noticed is a trend to pay more attention to the groom’s boutonniere.

After decades of being content with a simple carnation, today’s groom might sport anything from a red orchid that matches the bridal bouquet to a mix of herbs and berries.

“We’ve done some that are very herbal, with rosemary and mint and things of that order,” Stout said. “We’ve used berries and branches – little twigs and stuff – or had a variation of different greens, like ferns and pine.”

For a very individual touch, summer bride Morgan Carey Park said her mother, Janet Carey, personally crafted a boutonniere for new son-in-law Rick Park using burlap and a fishing lure in honor of his enthusiasm for fishing.

Adding to the rustic feel at the Carey/Park nuptials, the bride said, “We used handmade farm tables, mismatched napkins and old bottles to decorate the tables. We made all our own centerpieces from hydrangeas and Queen Anne’s lace. The day before the wedding, my family and friends, about 10 people total including my grandma, got up at 6 a.m. to collect flowers from the side of the road and neighbors’ yards.

“It took us six hours in our garage to cut and make all the centerpieces.”

If you’re going to let a professional florist handle the flowers, Stout recommends setting up an appointment at least six months before the wedding.

“But we’ve done it with as little as a month’s notice,” he added.

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that the bride already owned.

Williams’ craftsmanship, which included embellishing the band with several smaller diamonds in a floral pattern, added about $5,000 to the value.

“Somebody could come in here and say, ‘Look I have $500 to spend,’ and I would work with him,” the designer noted.

The most frequently chosen stone for an engagement ring is

“The structure of the ring just flowed together,” Williams said.

“I wish I could do one of those every day.”

That said, Williams said he is happy to work with people who have much smaller jewelry budgets.

a round diamond with a brilliant cut, said Williams’ father, Tom, who worked for Bartikowsky Jewelers in Wilkes-Barre for many years before its recent closing.

But there are other cuts to consider – among them

marquise, pear-shaped, heartshaped and princess – as well as different colors of stones.

“The presence of a certain gas when the diamond is formed can influence the color,” Tom Williams said. “Boron makes it blue.”

Stones also can be artificially tinted, and then they’re much less expensive.

Speaking of color, Marc Williams said one bride had an idea to add a small birthstone for herself and for her fiancé to either side of the diamond in her engagement ring. “I believe they were a sapphire and a garnet,” he said.

Less expensive jewelry can be an ideal gift for the bride to give her bridesmaids, Williams said, suggesting sterling silver beads that can be engraved with the date of the wedding, song lyrics, or something else that is meaningful to the bride.

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flowers to be an accent, not a focal point,” she said. “When it came to planning the wedding, I wanted things to be warm and simple, yet elegant.”

Simple or complex, rustic or elegant, florists will tell you just about any flower is available any time of year nowadays, so the floral possibilities seem infinite.

Recognizing that, Alison Taroli decided that because each of her attendants was an individual, there was no reason for Lauren, Kristin, Julie, Maria, and Kylene all to carry the same kind of bouquet.

“Each of my bridesmaids had a different color,” said the Dallas native, who exchanged vows with Eric Gelsleichter in October. “One was yellow, one was a deep blue. There was deep red, and a pale green. It suited their

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sk a bride whether she’s wearing something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue, and if she says yes, chances are at least one of those things is jewelry.

“During my bridal shower, my grandmother gave me a pearl bracelet with turquoise stones, so that covered old and blue,” said Kingston native Holly Sirkin, who got married in November. “I borrowed my aunt’s earrings.”

“I borrowed a diamond hairclip from my friend who wore it when she got married,” said autumn bride Lynda Ciaruffoli Lang, whose parents live in Shavertown.

“I had a lovebird pin from my grandma,” Morgan Carey Park of Lake Louise said, explaining how it was pinned to the bouquet her mother, Janet Carey, “the most creative person

I know,” had fashioned from just-picked Queen Anne’s lace.

On their wedding day, Morgan’s husband, Rick Park, sported a matching lovebird on his tie.

Of course, heirlooms aren’t the only kind of wedding jewelry.

An engagement ring is often the “something new” a bride is wearing, and sometimes it’s even custom-designed for or by her.

“She sent me exactly what she wanted,” jewelry designer Marc Williams of MarcCo. Jewelers in Luzerne said, showing off an electronic image of an intricately carved engagement ring he made “just this past Christmas” to the specifications of a bride from Atlanta.

The center stone was a square, naturally yellow diamond appraised at $125,000

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Each member of KMFDM signed autographs and posed for pictures for anyone who asked, and when I told Sascha that I was the guy who had interviewed him recently, he said, “Yes, Rich Howells,” and told me how much he enjoyed our exchange. He remembered my name? How much better could this night get?

Too hyped up to go home just yet, we went out and found the last bar open with our fellow fans we had just met and got one drink in before last call. While the music at its core will always be significant, it’s the experiences and subsequent stories that derive from it – from talking to renowned singers to eating complimentary food to running around after 1 a.m. in bitter conditions looking for a beer – that make it memorable, and, in turn, make me geek out.

You can keep your limited edition clear vinyl with the misprinted sleeve – but I’d love to come over and see it sometime.

-Rich Howells is a lifelong Marvel Comics collector, wannabe Jedi master, and cult film fan. E-mail him at rhowells@ theweekender.com.

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couldn’t make Philadelphia due to deadlines, so New York City it was – did I really just get invited to a concert by Sascha himself?

Yes, it was still strange to me.

When we arrived in the Big Apple, my friend and I made our first stop at the Chat ‘n’ Chew on E. 16th Street, a cozy little diner with a drool-worthy menu.

After explaining that we came all the way from Scranton, the manager came back with a free bowl of their “Quintessential Macaroni and Cheese,” which puts any Kraft product you’ve ever had to shame, and two cans of delicious Porkslap Pale Ale to wash it down, also on the house. I mention this not only as a “thank you,” but to help illustrate a later point.

Before KMFDM’s set, I ran into a good friend of mine who lives in the city (and I don’t see often enough) and Rey Roldan, the band’s publicist, who I had worked with many times but had yet to meet in person. Many stories and laughs were shared before the band began a careerspanning set of fan favorites and new tracks, all blending together into a seamless medley that rocked the Irving Plaza and its wild occupants.

“You drove all the way up here for this show?” Rey asked.

“Of course!” I replied. “Why wouldn’t I?” And that’s when it occurred to me – not everyone would make a three-hour trek on a Thursday night with work the next morning.

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I’m not just a geek over comic books and movies – I’m also a bit of a music geek…just maybe not in the traditional sense.

I don’t own an extensive collection of first pressings of obscure vinyls. I can’t identify every Beatles song in two or three notes. I’m not aware of every new indie band before they hit the mainstream. But I am utterly fascinated by music itself, particularly the strange and unpredictable mix of bands I grew up with.

That’s why I’m constantly reading magazines and websites detailing their histories, diving deeper with extensive interviews, tour diaries, and any other tidbits I can get my hands on. I could care less if people scoff at my taste or question my hipness; I like what I like, and my curiosity regarding creative origins is one of many reasons why I do what I do now.

That’s why I couldn’t pass up the opportunity a few weeks ago to chat with Sascha Konietzko, the founder and only steady member of KMFDM in its 29 year history, for an article in The Weekender.

From Nine Inch Nails to Fear Factory to Stabbing Westward, I’ve always had an affinity for industrial metal music. KMFDM, which roughly translates to “no pity for the majority,” is not only one of its originators, but it is an uncompromising blend of rebellious political stances, catchy dance beats, and badass hard rock.

I’ve listened to the German pioneers of “the Ultra-Heavy Beat” since I was a teenager, so even though this has been my profession for years now, I still found myself overwhelmed by the thought of talking to the Käpt’n K (as he is known to fans), considering my long-term relationship with his music. As soon as he called from his home in Hamburg, however, my anxiety turned into familiarity as we went back to his beginnings as an artist, his technical work and writing process on 17 (!) studio albums, his unwavering musical vision, and the fact that he’s not as big a fan of his earlier work as his listeners are.

Even as a fan, I learned quite a bit, and while I would have been content with just that, he said he would add me to the guest list of any show I wanted to see. I

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Andrea Talarico McGuigan still remembers her first poem.

Assigned to her by her 5th grade teacher, it was titled “United in Peace” with an accompanying illustration of “a black hand shaking a white hand.”

“It rhymed and it was pretty horrible, but unbeknownst to me, Mr. Gregory submitted the whole class’ poems to a local contest and mine won,” McGuigan recalled.

“Several schools participated, and so I had to read my poem at the Fine Arts Fiesta, and 5th grade was the youngest grade. I was the youngest kid on stage, the only one from Tunkhannock, so the very first poem I wrote I ended up having to read in public, and I kind of knew from that point on that not only did I like writing poetry, but I really liked performing it a whole lot.”

She tried music and sports, but writing always unconsciously went to the forefront of her mind.

With supportive teachers and family, she continued writing with socially conscious messages throughout her youth, thinking her “poetry could save the world.” She published her first poetry collection, “Spinning with the Tornado,” through Paper Kite Press in 2003.

“I had no idea what I was doing or what kind of impact a book might have on my work.

I’m incredibly grateful for the experience – I definitely learned a lot from it. It’s hard now to look

back because the poems feel and sound incredibly young to me. I was a lot angrier, definitely, when I was younger. I dealt with a lot of those feelings, and I think I’m writing from a better balanced place now,” she explained, adding that she has another manuscript in the works that she’s hoping to publish within the next year or two.

“I think people who have read my first book and have struck with me through that process will probably be…maybe not surprised because the voice is still here, but they’ll see that there’s been growth, I think. I hope.”

The 31-year-old Scranton resident, who describes herself as a “confessional poet” and “addictive revisionist,” is much more confident in her work when she’s reading it to an audience, inspired by performance poets like Buddy Wakefield, Jeanann Verlee, Anis Mojgani, and Jon Sands.

When coaching Poetry Out Loud students, she offers advice that comes from her experience hosting various poetry readings over the years.

“The word ‘stanza’ itself comes from the Latin for ‘room,’ and if you think about that then, your poem is a house. You have an entrance, you have rooms, and you have an exit to your poem, and what I tell them is to metaphorically walk through and find every nook and cranny in that house.

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to memorize it,” McGuigan said.

“It’s very apparent when someone knows not just how to say the poem, but knows what to say and knows what they mean by what they’re saying.”

As a rostered artist-in-residence with the Northeastern Educational Intermediate Unit #19 who has also taught poetry workshops in schools, Arts Alive, and Arts Alive Intermediate, she has additional sound advice for students still mastering their craft.

“I teach them to journal every day. If they make the time when they first wake up in the morning to put down whatever scattered thoughts they have on paper, they will find material in that to work into something larger. I think it’s very hard to sit down with the idea that you’re going to craft a poem right now about a subject,” McGuigan continued.

“That’s intimidating for a lot of people, especially people who have never written poetry, so what I tell them is to gather their scattered thoughts and leave a record of their life and their thoughts, and when they feel the creative urge come on, they can then mine through that material to find the gems in there.”

As she prepares to take over the Prose in Pubs series at Jack’s Draft House in Scranton, McGuigan said she’s looking forward to reading at the New Visions Writers Showcase on March 30 with her best friend, Heather M. Davis, and Stanton Hancock, Laurel Radzieski, Shelby Fisk, and Chris Campion.

“I’ve been to other cities, and I’ve been to obviously a lot of other readings and workshops, and when I tell people about how many events and what we have going on in this area, people from larger cities honestly can’t believe it. I have writers from New York City telling me they can’t wait to come to Scranton and read and meet the people around here,” she noted.

“I think we do have kind of a unique situation with our writers. I don’t know if it’s the history of the area or the slow economy – I don’t know where it comes from, but we are definitely very rich in writers in this area.”

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Beverly Donofrio lives her life out in the open, but he says she wouldn’t have it any other way.

Her very personal memoirs have touched millions of readers over the years, particularly women dealing with teen pregnancy or the physical and mental trauma of rape.

Her first book, “Riding In Cars with Boys,” was adapted into a film in 2001 starring Drew Barrymore, and her latest, “Astonished: A Story of Evil, Blessings, Grace, and Solace,” delves into faith, violence, and other heavy issues openly and honestly.

The New York-based author, who teaches at the Low Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University, shared with The Weekender her writing process, the underlying messages in her work, and her Hollywood experience before her free lecture at Marywood University on April 4.

THE WEEKENDER: What first got you interested in writing?

BEVERLY DONOFRIO: Oh gosh, I have to back to 7th grade when I had this wonderful teacher who made us write an essay or a short story every week, and she would often invite me to read it to the class, and so it was the first thing that I really ever got praise or attention for, and plus it was fun.

She made it fun; we were kind of given free reign. But then I kind of forgot about that. I would write poems; I always kept writing, but I thought that I was going to be an actress instead.

I was in all of the plays in high school and junior high school, and then I got pregnant when I was a senior, and acting would have required a babysitter. But reading and writing didn’t, so I went to the library all the time. I read everything I could get my hands on as though it would save my life, and it really did.

W: What is your writing process like?

BD: I write in all different places and all different ways. Lately, my process is I get up in the morning, I make coffee, I read my spiritual readings, I meditate for a half an hour, most mornings I do some yoga, and then I am calm and

Beverly Donofrio lecture: April 4, 7 p.m., Marywood University (Nazareth Hall). Free, open to the public.

centered and focused and I start writing. I write all over the house; I write on the floor often because I like to sit in different yoga postures with my legs because writing in one position is so bad for your body. I sometimes will go to a coffee shop, but if I do that, I print out what I’ve written and do some editing by hand or rewriting by hand.

W: When your first memoir was released, what kind of response did you receive from readers, and how did that lead into the film adaptation?

BD: Before it was even released, as soon as the editor and the publishing company accepted it, it was bought by the movies, and I made more money then I had made probably accumulatively in my whole life in that one moment, so everything was changed. And then it got great reviews; it was very well received.

I always thought it was going to be a movie. When I wrote it, I wrote it thinking it will be a movie, so it kind of influenced a little bit how I wrote it. I wrote it very scenically in scenes, imagining them as movie scenes… (But) it took 11 years – that was surprising.

W: The book differed from the movie in several ways. Were you OK with those changes?

BD: I knew about it. My biggest disappointment was that you don’t get to know that I went to college.

You don’t get to see that she gets accepted into college, and my whole motivation, my messianic mission when I was writing the book was that I wanted young people who had screwed up in high school or in their youth to know that it is not the end of the world and you can turn it around, and the best way to do that is to go to college.

W: What was it like being portrayed by Drew Barrymore?

Did you meet her at all?

BD: Yes, I met her, and she was a sweetheart. I was foolish enough to think that she wanted to hang out with me because she liked

me so much when now I see she was studying me! [Laughs] I have friends who say, “Oh my god, she nailed you!”

W: Would you like to see any of your other books adapted into films?

BD: I can’t really see it. The next two, they’re about faith. There’s lots of things that happen, but the real journey is interior, and I don’t think that’s so easy to translate. I am thinking, though, of making the latest one into a play. At first it was going to be a one-woman play, but now I’m thinking it would be the main character, a woman actor and a male actor who plays several different roles.

W: What do you want readers to take away from your work?

BD: It’s a different thing in each one. Well, actually, “Riding In Cars with Boys” and the latest one are not so dissimilar…In “Riding In Cars with Boys,” it was basically that, as Hamlet said, nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. I could view getting pregnant in high school as a blessing or a curse – it’s my choice, and by the end of the book I came to look at it as a blessing.

The next book is about if you act as though you believe, belief will follow, and having belief that God is a loving god and that God loves you makes you feel loved, which is healing. And in that book, God to me was the Virgin Mary, a feminine manifestation of God. God was a mother. In this next book, it’s basically the same. In this book, I was raped; the trauma was being raped. For other people, it could be losing their job or their spouse or a child or whatever, but for me, the traumatic experience was being raped. I could look at it as a horrible thing that happened in my life or a possible gift that I may not know. At the moment, I didn’t know what the gift would be, but I had faith that one day I might.

W: What has your teaching experience been like at Wilkes University?

BD: I love the students, and they do such great work… More often than not, I can’t see how they’re any less good than us, than the teachers. I mean, the stuff they come up with is great. My fellow teachers are my peer group; they’re my writing family, and twice a year for the residencies, we have to present 10 minutes in a reading, so I get to hear what my fellow writers are writing and watch it develop and get influenced by them. They really raised the bar for me.

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‘God of War’ prequel not as Certainly not a game epic, but still worthy his oath, which causes him to be Since 2005, Kratos has been on a revenge-driven odyssey to take down punished by the three Furies.

He is sent to Hades and tortured the gods. Through his travels, he has with visions of his family for years, been to Hades and back a few times, which understandably drive him killed countless waves of Minotaur, Medusas, titans, gods, and even Zeus mad. This is the real start of what himself. In “God of War: Ascension,” drives Kratos to revenge against Ares. In order to accomplish this we finally get to see the beginning goal, Kratos needs to redeem himself of the tale and what started Kratos down the path he will eventually take in the eyes of the other gods; he must kill the Furies in order to sever his in the rest of the series. ties to Ares and avenge his family.

If you are new to the series, “God For two console generations, the of War” is set in ancient Greece “God of War” series has been one of and is filled with all manner of the hallmarks of third-person action ancient Greek mythology. You play titles, and the action in “Ascension” as Kratos, a proud Spartan warrior does not disappoint. Even though in service of the God of War, Ares. this game doesn’t have as many epic Kratos was involved in a losing moments as its predecessors, there battle against a barbarian horde, so are some really incredible scenes that he made a pact with the God of War are nothing short of spectacle. himself. Ares spared his life and When it comes to combat, the congranted Kratos the power that he trols and action are what you rememneeded to defeat the invasion, but ber. You kill all manner of beasts in he was doomed to be a slave to him order to collect forever. orbs that upgrade When I first Upcoming game releases: all of your combat heard this was March 24: Luigi’s Mansion: abilities and spells. going to be a Dark Moon The only differprequel, I was March 26: Tiger Woods PGA ence here is there skeptical because Tour 14 are not alternative I thought the first March 26: BioShock Infinite weapons this time game did a great around; there are job of explaining only the chains of chaos. However, his back-story; however, “Ascenyou can attain different attributes for sion” does tell an interesting tail that the chains this time around, which do expands the mythology. change the combat in some interest“God of War: Ascension” takes ing ways. place after his deal with Ares and Most of the new abilities are before the events of the original 2005 elemental-based: there is Ares fire, game. The story is not as epic as Poseidon ice, Zeus lightning, and the the main entries, but it is still quite interesting. After Kratos is tricked by non-elemental ability from Hades that can call the undead. Along Ares into killing his family, Kratos with the upgraded chain blades, the is so angry he has vowed to break

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magic system is more advanced.

Magic does much more damage and is harder to unlock, so you have to think wisely about how you want to allocate orbs. There are also some sub weapons, but they aren’t that useful.

The biggest addition to this game is the multiplayer – this is the first “GOW” game to have any type of multiplayer experience. One good thing is that no one can play as Kratos, so there are no matches with four versions of Kratos to keep track of. Instead, you pick from one of four customizable warriors that are aligned with a certain god, which gives them different abilities and weapons. The multiplayer is an interesting distraction; the different modes include variants of free-forall, team deathmatch, team objective, and capture the flag. The levels are pretty cool; they include different locations from throughout the series and have elements that can be used to your advantage. It is very fun to experiment with the different parts of each map. The multiplayer is fun, but it grows old rather quickly in my opinion.

Overall, “God of War: Ascension” is a pretty good game, but it doesn’t quite live up to the standard of the previous games. The story does a good job of fleshing out Kratos as a character more, but it just doesn’t feel as important because we know what happens to him in the later games. The graphics are still amazing, the action and combat stands up, and the multiplayer is quite fun, so if you are “GOW” fan, you should play this to learn more about why Kratos is so warm and cuddly, but this shouldn’t be the jumping-on point. I recommend picking up the “GOW HD” collection and playing the remastered original two games.

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

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Also, be sure to open a bottle of Iron Throne during your next fish dinner, especially if you are the type to squeeze a wedge of lemon on top; the lemon flavors within this beer are absolutely

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Is it worth trying? Absolutely! I personally believe that anything Brewery Ommegang releases is worth a try, but this unique collaboration beer is just stunning. Also, it has been released at the perfect time, and no, not just because the 3rd season of “Game of Thrones” begins airing March 31, but because this beer is perfect for the spring season. It is light enough to enjoy on a lovely warm afternoon, but hefty enough to enjoy with your dinner. So whether you are a fan of the show or not, be sure to seek this beer out and grab some while you can, because something tells me that this one is going fast!

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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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Not only does it put a little twist on a classic dish, it’s also incredibly easy and the perfect thing if you’re throwing a party and need to hammer out a good amount of eats in a short amount of time.

I say “easy” because you’re pretty much chucking ingredients into a bowl, mixing, forming balls, and baking.

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

Put ground chicken, breadcrumbs, chopped onion and parsley, parmesan cheese, salt, pepper, minced garlic, fennel seeds, an egg, and half a lemon into a bowl. You can forego the fennel seeds if you wish, like I did.

Gently mix all these ingredients together until completely combined, and don’t be afraid to get a little messy. My grandmother always taught me that hands were the best mixers in a case like this, so dig right in.

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are a bit smaller than a tennis ball and place these two inches apart from one another on a foil-lined baking sheet.

Once all the balls are rolled, mix pizza sauce and olive oil in a small bowl. Brush this mixture on top of each meatball. (I went nuts and put a lot on each, so don’t be afraid to do that.) Put it in the oven and bake for 15 minutes.

Remove the tray from the oven and brush some more sauce on the top again, then top each one with a slice of mozzarella. Broil them until the cheese is golden brown, about three minutes.

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FINES TO FIT THE CRIMES In March, Microsoft was fined 561 million euros (about $725 million) by the European Commission after, apparently, a programmer carelessly left out just one line of code in Microsoft’s Service Pack 1 of European versions of Windows 7. That one line would have triggered the system to offer web browsers other than Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer, which Microsoft had agreed to include to settle charges that it was monopolizing the web-browser business.

the Central African Republic, phantoms are thought often to steal penises, or shrink them, but according to a March dispatch in the magazine Pacific Standard, the stories’ origins may simply reflect distrust of outsiders.

Townspeople over-attribute worldly powers to strangers, and when outsiders’ business deals go sour, men check their genitals. Also, animal-organ poachers operate nearby and arouse suspicion that they may be after human genitals, as well.

(Asking for perspective on this weirdness, though, the Pacific Standard reporter wondered what Tiringoulou citizens might think about Americans who, for instance, starve themselves “near to death because their reflection in the mirror convinces them that they are fat.”)

— More Poor Planning: (1) In San Diego, Calif., in February, two people broke into a Hooters after closing and stole a jukebox, apparently, said police, mistaking it for an ATM inside the darkened restaurant. (2) Jose Perales Jr., 24, was charged with breaking into Dr. John’s Lingerie Boutique in Davenport, Iowa, in February. Surveillance video revealed he was wearing men’s clothing when he entered, but left in a dress and blond wig. In fact, while changing clothes, his bare back was visible, revealing “Perales” tattooed on his shoulder.

— Loretta Lacy, 49, perhaps set some kind of record in January as she sped from Sioux Falls, S.D., to Racine, Wis. (about 500 miles away) just to make her granddaughter’s school dance. Although her daughter told a Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter that her mother “can make it from A to B faster than maybe the average person,” Lacy collected four speeding tickets during one 2 1/2-hour stretch, including for speeds of 88, 99 and 112. Of course, she arrived late.

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Twyla DeVito said she knew that one of her regulars at the American Legion Post in Shelby, Ohio, was too inebriated to drive home and thus telephoned police, alerting them to a potential drunk driver. An officer responded, observed the driver, and arrested him when his blood-alcohol read twice the limit for presumed impairment.

Two days later DeVito was fired because, as her boss allegedly said to her, “(I)t’s bad for business to have a bartender that will call the cops.”

— The Fabulous British Government “Safety Net”: Heather Frost, 36, and mother of 11, is getting a brand-new, specially designed house through the Tewkesbury (England) Borough Council, which deemed inadequate the duplex that the family had been using at taxpayer expense for five years.

Frost had complained that she needed larger quarters because one daughter now owns a horse and needs to stable it (and, said a stable worker, had almost acquired two more horses, but that deal fell through).

— Fathers caught up unfairly in state laws on child support have appeared in News of the Weird, but Lional Campbell’s story seems unusually harsh.

Authorities in Detroit continue to bill Campbell for past-due support (which Campbell admits he owes even if unsure how much), but only recently did he discover that they were counting $43,000 past-due to support “Michael,” who had died 25 years ago at age 3. Campbell said he had thought the support was for another child, born seven years after Michael, but it turns out neither the authorities nor Campbell knows precisely which fatherhood Campbell is paying for. The latest audit reduced Michael’s $43,000 balance to about $6,500.

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— Being identified with the number 666 (the “mark of the beast” in the Bible’s Book of Revelation) continues to trouble the righteous. Walter Slonopas, 52, felt required to resign as a maintenance worker for Contech Casting in Clarksville, Tenn., in February after receiving his W-2 form, which he noted was the 666th mailed out by Contech this year. (However, perhaps Slonopas is not so innocent. He had been working for Contech for less than two years, yet had already been “assigned” the number 666 twice — on the company’s payroll books and the company’s time-clock system.)

— The Iconic Phantom Black/Hispanic Perpetrator: In February, victims of crimes in San Antonio, Texas, and Terrebonne Parish, La., complained to police that they had been assaulted by, respectively, a “Hispanic male” and an “unknown black man” — whom the victims admitted later did not exist. San Antonio police learned that their victim had been accidentally, embarrassingly, shot by a friend mishandling his gun. Louisiana authorities found that their victim had not been abducted and raped (and had her baby stolen). Rather, she had wanted to hide her miscarriage from family and friends and invented a phantom attack as more acceptable.

— Chinese New Year, especially, turns out not so festive if busy young professional women are unable to show off a boyfriend to their parents. Thus, men offer themselves as fake boyfriends for the equivalent of about $50 a day, plus extras including about $5 an hour to accompany the woman to dinner, $8 for a kiss on the cheek, and $95 to spent the night — on the couch, of course, since “sex” is not part of the concept. Recently, a reality TV series appeared for men needing women for home visits — often they are gay men who have not “come out” to their parents.

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A smokin’ showstopper Black people are way cooler than white people. It’s just a fact.

We can’t dance, we can’t jump, and we can’t get Mariah Carey to admit she’s one of us. That’s why I performed in the Black Student Union’s annual talent show when I was a freshman in college, Mom and Dad. I wanted to make some cooler friends.

While walking through the Student Union with my pledge brother, Eddie, I grabbed a flyer announcing an upcoming talent show.

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” Eddie said and sighed after noticing the event was sponsored by the Black Student Union.

“What?” I questioned. “This is my chance to be the token white guy in an all African American entourage. Don’t f—k this up for me!”

The fact that I took jungle fever to another level was no secret to my friends. They were well aware that I ached to be in a social circle with more cultural diversity, but didn’t take me seriously when I assured them that once I started rollin’ with my homies, I would make like a recovering drug addict shying away from their bad influences and cut all the Caucasian friends out of my life. Therefore, this talent show was my chance to be taken seriously.

“I think you’re the only white person performing tonight,” suggested one of my friends on the

night of the show.

“I hope so,” I shuddered. “This is my moment.”

When it was time for my performance, I began singing a song about how small our school’s town was, lyrics by yours truly. While rolling on the ground singing the chorus, smoke covered the stage.

“They love me so much they turned on the fog machine!” I thought to myself.

It wasn’t until a crowd of coughing students started gagging their way to the exit that I realized it wasn’t a fog machine.

Someone backstage sprayed fire extinguishers from underneath the stage curtain!

A cloud of chemicals flooded the auditorium. I quickly realized that maybe the organization’s members were not as welcoming to the idea of a token white friend as I anticipated.

After getting charged for two fire extinguishers, and with an ambulance bill from an asthmatic student in attendance that passed out, I learned the organization bitterly accused me of being responsible for the stunt as they were banned from ever hosting a talent show again. I then realized maybe making new friends isn’t what I was meant to do at that talent show, but instead realized that I’m a party rocker, showstopper.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Lately you’ve been feeling like a wild animal in a modern zoo. Effort has been made to simulate your natural habitat, but still you keep running into the electrified fencing and wondering how limited your world really is. Meanwhile, people keep riding through your life on a monorail, snapping pictures and throwing junk food at you and your friends. Don’t settle for mediocre happiness because you’ve got it better than the gorillas who are still living in cages. It’s true; this level of freedom is better than what you used to have. But when the monorail hurtles off its track and knocks down the fences holding you in, run like hell. The beautiful, real jungle awaits.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) When I was a kid at summer camp, they had a snake pit, which fascinated and repelled me. The most intrepid campers captured serpents to inhabit the concrete hole; the rest of us caught frogs to feed them. I watched in horror as one hapless amphibian had the misfortune of being consumed by two snakes at once—one started on each end until they met nose to nose with half a frog down each their throats. This incredibly symbolic dilemma reminds me of your situation. Like the snakes (who needed to eat) you were just fulfilling one of your needs. But now you’re in a face-to-face stalemate with your competition. Since your opponent’s not likely to back off any time soon, I suggest you do so; it’s the only route to freedom.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) These grapes are beyond sour. They’re bile-bitter. Admit it; you sorely resent having to give up that piece of forbidden fruit that came so temptingly close to being in your grasp. But come on; it’s nobody’s fault but your own. The sooner you admit that it was your self-imposed limitations that kept you from enjoying the deliciousness that awaited you, the sooner you’ll get your second chance at it. Come on, baby. You know you still want it. Stop convincing yourself that you can’t climb the tree it’s growing in and go get it.

Jessie J March 27, 1988 Vince Vaughn March 28, 1970 Jessica Chastain March 29, 1981 Eric Clapton March 30, 1945 EWAN MCGREGOR (pictured) March 31, 1971 Susan Boyle April 1, 1961 Michael Fassbender April 2, 1977

ethic, or an attitude about love (or maybe just sex) that seemed like a mere fringe fantasy before. I can’t wait to see what happens. I’m hoping you’ll rise to the occasion: Show us that you can not only don the title “Consciousness Rebel,” but wear it like a rock star.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) I thought she was a Leo: Her leopardprint dress; her long, golden mane; the way she imperiously shoved her way through a crowd, toting a somehow glamorous luggage-sized purse and shopping bags while deftly clutching a cigarette between delicately outstretched, ring-laden fingers. All these things pointed to her Sun-ruled nature. I was convinced, in fact, until she rebuffed a stranger’s compliment (“I just wanted to tell you how much I love your fabulous coat.”) with a very cold, “So?” I cite her lameness to remind you what you can and can’t get away with: Go ahead and be the king or queen of your little world; but don’t forget the warmth and generosity (as well as the sweet susceptibility to sincere flattery) that make your rank superiority adorable instead of intolerable.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Not that you should go around lifting manhole covers or sneaking into people’s basements, but a lot of what you’re looking for is underground these days, at least figuratively. Your craving for the intense and the real is at high tide again, and the things that will best satisfy it are all well off the beaten path, especially your beaten path. They exist in placed you’d never think to look. Never fear: The universe is erecting some well-placed signs to clue you in to where the best locations to embark on educative and entertaining detours might be. Heed them.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) It’s just a stab in the dark. But, lo and behold, it actually struck something solid.

You’ve been thrusting blindly into the unknown, trying out new things, hoping to figure out who or what the next chapter will be mostly about. Your latest jab hit. This week, figure out what this new inclination essentially is. Your goal: By this time next week, you ought to know exactly how the subject of your newest chapter will fit cleanly into your life, or get stuck rereading the chapter you just finished for at least one more month.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Whether it’s working behind-thescenes on a porno, writing a novel, or constructing a skyscraper, getting a taste of all the work that goes into the things you usually take for granted can only heighten your appreciation of them.

This week, indulge your evolving and expanding need to not just do, but make.

Besides the obvious benefits of the act of creation, you’ll reap an almost equally important secondary boon: relearning how to acknowledge and understand the great efforts your undervalued companions go to for you. You’ll be a surprised at how far a newly sincere “thank you” gets you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Don’t be alarmed by your loss of vision.

Although the kaleidoscope of fascinating colors and venues you’re used to has dropped out of sight, it’s been replaced by some very directed tunnel vision. Take advantage of this extreme focus. Make a beeline for one of those long-term goals that usually gets a backburner position in favor of the wild distractions of your daily life. You’re bound to get at least halfway to it, maybe further. Be single-minded for once, and don’t worry: When you switch your mental camera from zoom to wideangle again, the delicious pandemonium of your “normal” life will still be there.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Van Gogh sacrificed an ear for love, right? Of course, instead of severing yours and sending it to your sweetheart as a sign of your devotion, you’ll be surrendering it by cutting off all blood flow with the earpiece of your phone.

Of course, those marathon long-distance calls to demonstrate your unflagging ardor wouldn’t be necessary if you just made some actual room in your life for your sweetheart to move into. It may still be too soon for that; only you can know for sure.

But until you do, be prepared to give up not only an ear, but probably an arm and a leg, too.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) For well over a thousand years, oracles sat at Delphi and channeled the wisdom of the gods to give advice to rulers, philosophers and ordinary people; deliver orders; and issue prophecies. The ancient Greeks attributed the oracle’s trancelike— often impassioned—state to vapors that rose from the temple floor. Modern science dismissed that explanation until recently, when a team of scientists produced substantial evidence that crisscrossing fault lines beneath the temple probably produced ethylene, a gas that can cause altered mental states. Euphoric substances or no, your oracular powers are peaking.

And while presidents and royalty might not care what you have to say while you’re channeling the bad s—t, nearly everyone else will.

-To contact Caeriel, send mail to sign. language.astrology@gmail.com.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) I’d love to bury you up to your knees, just to keep you still. Sometimes the best way to catch something is to stop chasing it. Plant yourself. Choose a lovely spot with lots of sunshine and good cellphone reception. Then watch while everything vital practically takes care of itself, important people make thrilled pilgrimages to you, and all you need is provided, on location—wherever you are.

As you watch your mountain of desire magically melt down to molehill size from

the power of sunlight and the occasional phone call, you’ll wonder why in hell you’ve spent so much of the last few months trying to climb the damn thing.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Damn, you have been trying on some really different hats lately. I love how you’re entertaining some personally revolutionary ideas and trying to figure out how to incorporate them into your life. This week, you’ll have a chance to make room for one of your most out-there dreams, your most revolutionary work

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FORTIS INSTITUTE FORTY FORT Exciting Teaching Opportunity Part time instructor position in CDL program. The ideal candidate will have 3 plus yrs work experience in the trucking industry and a valid CDL. Teaching experience a plus, but not required.

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NURSING SUPERVISOR OPPORTUNITIES: OPPORTUNITIES: GeisingerBloomsburg Hospital is currently accepting applications for two Nursing Supervisor positions. Candidates must be available to work rotating shifts for both the Part-time or PRN/Flex open positions. Graduate from an accredited school of nursing with current licensure by the Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing. Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing required. Two (2) to five (5) years of clinical experience, including experience as a Charge Nurse required. Apply in person or online @ www.bloomhealth.net Geisinger-Bloomsburg Hospital Human Resources Dept., 549 Fair Street, 3rd Fl. Prof. Bldg., Bloomsburg, PA 17815 EOE/M-F-H-V-D

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MACHINIST

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Excellent benefits.

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Full time sales/ online advertising position. at local used car dealership.

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BOX 4335

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COCCIA FORD LINCOLN

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SALES PEOPLE AUTOMOTIVE SALES EXPERIENCE REQUIRED!!

AUTO MECHANIC CAR WASHER Excellent pay and benefits including 401k plan.

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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.

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Palletized Bluestone/ Flagstone Auction

(600) Pallets of Cut Stone / Landscape Stone (600) Inventory Reduction For: Johnson Quarries, Inc. Le Raysville, PA 18829 (Lawton / Wyalusing Area)

Saturday April 6, 2013 9:30 AM Auction To Be Held At Johnson Quarries,

15962 Route 467, Stevensville, PA. From Lawton: Take Route 706 To 467, Go 2 Miles to Auction Site. From Wyalusing: Take Route 706 To Route 467.

(600) Pallets Of Quality Bluestone, Pattern Pavers, Landscape Stone, Etc., (600)

Including: Thermaled Full Colored & Blue Pattern, Asst. Dimensions & Thicknesses; Full Color Patter, Asst. Dimension & Thicknesses; Lilac Pattern, Asst. Dimensions & Thicknesses; Full Color, Blue & Red Colonial; Full Color Irregular; Full Color Irregular Tumbled; Full Color & Lilac Irregular / Standup; Lilac Colonial; Blue Gaged Colonial; Tumbled & Regular Bluestone Pavers, 1 x 1 & 1 x 18 & Asst. Sizes; Blue Treads, 3 x 12-18 ; Creek Stone; Snapped Colonial; Other Asst. Types & Varieties; Field Stone Rounds; Natural Slabs; Steps; Etc.; Palletized Stone To Be Sold By The Pallet Or By Square Ft. And Take The Pallet Full. Alike Pallets & Types Will Be Offered By The Pallet And Buyer Can Take Multiple Pallets. Selling Arrangements Will Depend On Types, Varieties And Way Stone Is Palletized. Types, Sizes, Selling Terms & Other Pertinent Info Will Be In Detailed Catalog On Our Website By March 27, 2013 @ www.manasseauctions.com; Loading Of Stone: Stone Will Be Loaded For Buyer Free Of Charge For 2 Weeks Following Auction, From Monday Friday 8:00AM 3:00PM, By Appointment.

Trucking Available By Contacting Wyalusing Transport, (570) 744-1284 / (570) 7440100 Terms & Conditions: 13% Buyers Premium Will Be Charged. Payment In Full Day Of Auction In Cash, Good Check or Major Credit Card, 3% Discount For Payments Made By Cash Or Check. Nothing Removed Until Settled For. Auction Preview: Friday, April 5, 2013 From 12PM To 4PM & Day Of Auction From 8AM Until Auction Start Time.

Auctioneers Note: The Johnson Family Are Reducing Their Stone Inventory; These Are All Top Quality Items, Not Seconds; All Selling Absolute To The Highest Bidder, Plan To Attend. Buy Your Spring Inventory Early In The Season Here & Homeowners Plan To Buy For Your Spring Projects!!

Mel & Matt Manasse PA Auctioneers License # AU571L & AU3517L Sales Managers & Auctioneers Whitney Point, NY 607-692-4540 / 1-800-MANASSE www.manasseauctions.com

Furniture & Accessories

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

Taupe color, like new. $550 each.

570-675-5046

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Furniture & Accessories

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

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Other

744

Furniture & Accessories

WALL UNITS by Hooker, 3 solid oak and lighted with adjustable shelves. $550. SOFA, sectional, light brown leather, recliners on each end. $445.

570-288-1981

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Other

758 Miscellaneous CLOTHING girls, various sizes, pieces and prices. $7-$37, Call for further details. Books, paperback and hardcover, $15, a box, three boxes total, Sleeping bags, two person $35, one person with air mattress insert, $30, like new.

Shelving unit, corner, $20.

570-474-6028

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Other

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-BARRE/NORTH

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

WILKES-BARRE/PARSONS

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

WAPWALLOPEN MOTOR ROUTE St. Mary’s Rd. • St. John’s Rd. Moyers Grove Rd. • Sunset Rd. 94 Daily Papers • 155 Sunday Papers $800 Monthly Profit

LEE PARK

Alexie Rd. • Betsy Ross Dr. Constitution Ave. • David Rd. • Lee Park Ave. 252 Daily Papers • 285 Sunday Papers $1,000 Monthly Profit

570-301-3602

522

Education/ Training

522

CALL US! TO JUNK YOUR CAR ON THE

$POT,

Free Anytime Pickup 570-301-3602

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Televisions/ Accessories

522

Education/ Training

Unleash Your Creativity

BEST PRICES IN THE AREA

CA$H

Education/ Training

Courses offered in: HEALTH AND BEAUTY ACADEMY

TV 19 COLOR

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

Call 570-814-9574

459-5501 825-8363

786 Toys & Games BICYCLE girl’s 6speed Pacific Jubilee; blue & purple with 20” wheels; adjustable seat. $50 Little Tikes chalkboard, good condition $10.

Call 570-474-2170

527 Food Services/ Hospitality

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527 Food Services/ Hospitality

527 Food Services/ Hospitality

527 Food Services/ Hospitality

MANAGER TRAINEES SEND US YOUR RESUME Expanding Burger King Franchise in the area needs enthusiastic, aggressive people for Management Positions. Benefits Include: Health Insurance Plan 401 (K) Dental And Life Insurance Available Bonus Plan Paid Vacation Paid Sick Days 45 Hour Work Week Competitive Salary

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If You Have Pride In Your Own Ability Send Your Resume To: Burger King Attn: Personnel Dept.

185 Ferguson Avenue Shavertown, Pa 18708 E-Mail: Hr@Pdmco.Net E.O.E.

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

758 Miscellaneous

WEEKENDER, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2013

744

2013

27,

796 Wanted to Buy Merchandise

WANTED JEWELRY

WANTED JEWELRY

MARCH

796 Wanted to Buy Merchandise

800 PETS & ANIMALS 815

WEDNESDAY,

WEEKENDER,

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Dogs

ENGLISH BULLDOG AKC Puppy, female. $2,000.

Call for pictures.

570-839-1917

WILKESBARREGOLD

(570)48GOLD8 (570)484-6538

WILKESBARREGOLD

(570)48GOLD8 (570)484-6538

Highest Cash PayOuts Guaranteed

Highest Cash PayOuts Guaranteed

Open 6 Days a We e k 10am-6pm Closed Thursdays

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

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

London PM Gold Price

March 26 - $1,598.00

March 26 - $1,598.00

We Pay At Least 80% of the London Fix Market Price for All Gold Jewelry

We Pay At Least 80% of the London Fix Market Price for All Gold Jewelry

WilkesBarreGold.com or email us at wilkesbarregold@ yahoo.com

WilkesBarreGold.com or email us at wilkesbarregold@ yahoo.com

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Logistics/ Transportation

POMERANIANS. 8 weeks, 1st shots, 1 female 3 males. No papers. $375 each 570-864-2643

554

Production/ Operations

Dogs

GOLDEN RETRIEVER. BLOND, male big boned. 8 months old. Housebroken, very well mannered.

AKC reg. $400 570-288-2893 570-852-7064

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Production/ Operations

MegaPhase in Stroudsburg, PA is a diversified company serving Military and commercial customers worldwide. We are hiring: engineers, technicians (especially RF/Microwave), designers, CNC machinists, tool & die makers, logisticians, proposal writers and many more skilled workers.

We are an equal opportunity employer and offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits, health, dental, vision and 401(k) retirement plans.

Please email your resume in Word or PDF format to: teamwork@megaphase.com or stop in to fill out an application between 9 and 2pm Monday through Thursday.

Logistics/ Transportation

533

542

Logistics/ Transportation

Installation/ Maintenance/ Repair

Apply online, or send resume to:

Colleen Knight The Jewish Home of Eastern PA 1101 Vine St., Scranton, PA 18510 Telephone: 344-6177/Fax: 344-6859 Jhep.org EOE

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Installation/ Maintenance/ Repair

MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN

Full time

Responsibilities include coordinating recruitment, hiring, orientation, retention, and performance appraisals of nursing staff.

Bachelor s Degree in Human Resources Management or related degree required.

Long-term care knowledge or experience preferred Excellent salary and benefit package.

Local area manufacturing facility has an immediate need for a Maintenance Technician.

Applicant should have a working knowledge of Electrical and Mechanical Systems with the ability to read schematics and troubleshoot various pneumatic and hydraulic systems as well as PLC s and motors. Candidate must have a working knowledge of computers in an industrial environment including hardware configuration and troubleshooting, software configuration and troubleshooting and some limited network configuration and troubleshooting. Must be a reliable, self starter; able to work 6 days a week. Applicant must have at least 5 years experience. Consideration will be given to all relevant training and work experience. The company offers a competitive wage/benefits package including medical, dental, prescription, 401(k), life insurance, profit and team sharing. Qualified applicants may apply by mailing a resume to:

THE TIMES LEADER BOX 4325 15 N. MAIN STREET, WILKES-BARRE, PA 18711

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CLASS A CDL DRIVERS

We are growing and we are looking for the best Experienced Class A CDL Route Delivery Drivers. Core-Mark is accepting applications for FULL TIME 4 DAY WORK WEEK - Guaranteed 40 hours per week.

This is ideal for drivers who want to be able to be home with their families.

We are a national convenience store distribution company seeking full time CLASS A CDL DRIVERS. Generous benefit package to include Medical/Dental/Vision/STD/ LTD and 401k. $1,500 sign on bonus as well as Attendance/Safety and Performance Bonus programs available. Annual and merit increases. Designed Route Deliveries.

Company provided uniform and work boots.

Part-time opportunities are Prior military/ government also available for drivers civilian contractor looking to make some extra a experience welcomed. money on their days off.

Apply @ Core-Mark 100 West End Rd., Wilkes-Barre, PA 18706 570-823-6865

548 Medical/Health

Nursing Human Resources Coordinator

Attention TYAD: MegaPhase Wants You!

542

548 Medical/Health

Or apply online @ http:www.core-mark/ careeropportunities/ careers.aspx

542

Logistics/ Transportation

542

Logistics/ Transportation

542

Logistics/ Transportation

Class A Drivers with Flatbed Experience!

Ryder is hosting a Hiring Event!

Interviews on Site.

The Residence Inn 700 Lackawanna Ave., Scranton, PA Friday March 29th 10am-5pm

Dedicated Excellent Pay and Benefits Class A CDL w/ 1 yr. exp. call 1-800-7933754 www.ryder.jobs EOE. Drug test required for employment

NANTICOKE

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Income & Commercial Properties

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.

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LAFLIN 7 CONCORD DRIVE

1472 S. Hanover St. Well maintained bi-level house features 2 bedrooms, 1 3/4 baths, recreation room with propane stove.

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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PLAINS

Nothing to do but just move in!

23 Laurel Street 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Excellent condition!

Off street parking, new roof, and all new appliances included.

Playground right around the corner. $139,900 Call (570)690-2886

$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.

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Production/ Operations

Production/ Operations

IMMEDIATE POSITIONS AVAILABLE DELUXE BUILDING SYSTEMS, INC., A LEADING COMMERCIAL MODULAR MANUFACTURER IS PRESENTLY TAKING APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS

ALL SKILL LEVELS NEEDED: SKILLED TILE SETTER SKILLED ROOFERS/SIDERS PLUMBERS ELECTRICIANS SPACKLERS W/TOOL EXPERIENCE/ DRYWALL FINISHERS ROUGH AND FINISH CARPENTERS MIG WELDERS CONCRETE FINISHERS UTILITY (MULTIPLE TRADE SKILLS & EXPERIENCE) COME JOIN THE DELUXE TEAM!

PRE-EMPLOYMENT DRUG TESTING WILL BE REQUIRED.

LOTS - LOTS - LOTS

COMMERCIAL PROPERTY for lease. Units

ranging from 6002700 sq ft. prime Mountaintop area, great for business!!! High traffic area for retail or office space.

Prices ranging from $500.00/ month for smallest off street unit to $2700.00/month for large 2700 square foot building. call Amanda Colonna 570-714-6115 CENTURY 21 SMITH HOURIGAN GROUP 570-287-1196, for details and to view units.

S. WILKES-BARRE $25,000 / 6 bedroom - 2, 500 sq. ft.

Contractor Special $5,000.00 down. Owner will finance balance!

Zoned R-3.

Currently 2 bedroom apartment on first floor. 2nd and 3rd floor together as a 4 bedroom unit. Needs work. 4 off street paved parking spaces included. Close to Wilkes University.

Call Scott 302-249-4264 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

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WILKES-BARRE

302 HAZLE STREET Duplex. Each unit has 2 bedrooms, kitchens, living rooms, basement storage, gas heat.

Big back yard, off street parking. $60,000, negotiable 570-760-7378

Apartments/ Unfurnished

KINGSTON

Charming 2 bedroom, 2nd floor apartment, features a fireplace, built-in bookcases, large living room, dining room, eat-in kitchen, sun room & much more! $525 + utilities. Available April 1st. Please call 570-714-8568

941

Apartments/ Unfurnished

SHICKSHINNY

(1 mile north of Shickshinny) 1 open efficiency, on Route 11, Includes heat, air, garbage, satellite TV, & water.

Tenant pays electric. $575/month + security. New stove & refrigerator included. Plenty of parking. Truckers Welcome!

570-793-9530

WILKES-BARRE KINGSTON

E. WALNUT ST.

941

Apartments/ Unfurnished

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 heat, hot water & sewage included.

570-301-7247

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GLEN LYONNEW 1st floor,

Appliances & Floors. 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

HANOVER TOWNSHIP

3029 South Main St

1st floor, 3 bedrooms, wall to wall carpeting and freshly painted, central air, eat in kitchen with appliances. Off street parking. Laundry room with bonus washer and dryer.

Heat & cooking gas included. Tenant pays electric & water. $640 + security. No Pets.

Call 570-814-1356

HARVEYS LAKE

2 bedroom , wall to wall carpet, appliances, Lake rights.

Off street parking.

No pets. Lease, security and references.

570-639-5920

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

KINGSTON

Newly remodeled. 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, wall to wall, off street parking, washer/dryer hookup in the basement. $510/per month.

Call (570)288-9507

Mayflower Crossing Apartments 570.822.3968 1, 2, 3 & 4 Bedrooms - Light & bright open floor plans - All major appliances included - Pets welcome* - Close to everything - 24 hour emergency maintenance - Short term leases available

Call TODAY For AVAILABILITY!! www.mayflower crossing.com Certain Restrictions Apply*

NANTICOKE

Nice 2 bedroom Eat-in kitchen, living room, full bath, stove/fridge, washer/dryer hook-up. $500 + utilities.

NO PETS. Call: 570-760-3637 or 570-477-3839

PITTSTON

1 room + bath efficiency. Wall to wall carpeting, includes all utilities plus garbage & sewer.

Stove & refrigerator included. Security.

No pets. $400/ month. Call 570-655-1606

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PLYMOUTH

Beautiful 1 bedroom Newly remodeled from top to bottom.

If interested please call 570-239-3950

PLYMOUTH

TOWNHOUSE Convenient location, very low maintenance.

Total electric. Living and dining room, 1.5 baths. 2 large bedrooms.

Appliances, w/d hookup included.

Very small yard.

Private parking sewer paid, security reference and lease. Not section 8 approved. No smoking or pets $575 + utilities.

570-779-2694

WILKES-BARRE

307-309 South St E. 2 bedroom, available early April. 1st floor. New windows & carpet. Ceramic tile in kitchen & bath. 6 x 8 porch. $650/month. Landlord pays heat & water. No hook ups.

No Pets. 1 month security & 1 month rent. Call Manny 718-946-8738 or 917-295-6254

941

Apartments/ Unfurnished

WILKES-BARRE

VICTORIAN CHARM

On S. Franklin St. 1st floor, 1 bedroom, wood floors, eat-in kitchen with stove & refrigerator, modern bath, coinop washer & dryer.

Off street parking.

Secure building. $550/ month includes everything except phone & cable.

570-822-7670

WILKES-BARRE/NORTH

By General Hospital Large 1 bedroom, hardwood floors, appliances. Eat in kitchen. Parking space available. $500/month + utilities. No pets.

570-540-5312

944

Commercial Properties

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

947

WANTED GARAGE Duryea & surrounding area. Wanted garage to rent for boat storage. Easy access.

570-760-1548

950

NANTICOKE

3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, stove provided, washer/dryer hook up & wall to wall carpet. $475/month + security & utilities.

570-472-2392

WEST PITTSTON 5 bedroom, 1.5

baths, living & dining rooms, kitchen with stove, refrigerator & dishwasher.

Gas heat & off street parking. $800/month + utilities, security & references.

570-237-5478

953 Houses for Rent

DALLAS

3 bedroom, 2 bath, brick ranch house with gas heat & central air, attached 2 car garage. Full basement. $1,300/ month. Security & references.

570-690-2570

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Garages

Half Doubles

HANOVER TWP.

#5 and #7 Regina St. 3 bedrooms 1 bath, off street parking, washer and dryer included. #5-$750 Plus utilities, #7$800 plus utilities.

Background and credit check.

570-765-4474

WILKES-BARRE

North Main Street 1 block from General Hospital, 3 room apartment, washer/dryer, stove, refrigerator, 1st & last months rent + security, references required.

Water Paid. $525/per month 570-706-6487 After 6 p.m.

Half Doubles

WILKES-BARRE

PARRISH ST Very Nice 2 bedroom.

2nd Floor $540 + utilities.

Security, References, Background check.

570-332-8792

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

950

KIINGSTON

67 Pulaski St. fully renovated 2 bedroom 1 bath, large living room, new carpet, washer and dryer included, credit and background check. $750 + utilities.

570-765-4474

EDWARDSVILLE

49 Rice Avenue Recently remodeled single family home.

2 bedrooms, 1 bath, laundry room. Driveway & yard. Gas steam heat. $600 + utilities & 1 month security.

NO PETS 570-472-9453

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.

Includes fridge, stove, washer/dryera, sewer & trash.

Available July 1st.

Pictures available through e-mail. Call 570-545-6057.

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570-829-7130

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

Call 570-736-6881

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APPLICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE AT: YOUR LOCAL CAREER LINK DELUXE BUILDING SYSTEMS, INC or 499 WEST THIRD STREET BERWICK, PA 18603 DELUXE BUILDING SYSTEMS IS A DRUG FREE FACILITY,

NEWPORT TWP.

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

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

900 REAL ESTATE FOR SALE 906 Homes for Sale

912 Lots & Acreage

WEEKENDER, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2013

906 Homes for Sale

www.gaughanautostore.com

Here’s Your to Cash In.

$2000 Minimum Trade Allowance! Offer Expires March 30th! $7,988 and Under 98 MERCURY GR. MARQUIS L Extra Clean ....................

$

4,988

03 CHRYSLER SEBRING LX 80K Miles ......................

$

5,988

02 HYUNDAI SANTA FE GLS/LX AWD .............................

$

6,988

01 BMW 330I ALL WHEEL DRIVE #S94769 .........................

$

7,988

01 CADILLAC CATERA

SOLD 7,988

#001199, 25,000 Miles ....

$

01 VW JETTA GLS Very Nice ........................

$

03 CHEVY IMPALA 70K Miles ........................

03 GMC ENVOY Moonroof ........................

$

7,988 7,988

$

7,988

$

7,988

04 MERCURY GR. MARQUIS L Low Miles .......................

$

7,988

05 CHEVY EQUINOX LS #050603..........................

$

7,988

02 JEEP LIBERTY SPORT

SOLD 7,988

#119669..........................

$

06 MERCURY MILAN PREMIER 1-Owner ..........................

$

07 SATURN AURA Red, Moonroof ................

$

7,988 7,988

08 KIA OPTIMA EX $ 4-Door ............................

02 CHEVY TAHOE K1500 #222133 ......................

02 GMC ENVOY

7,988

$

8,988

SOLD 8,988

#304833........................

$

02 TOYOTA CELICA GT Moonroof ......................

03 GMC ENVOY Black.............................

$

$

1-Owner ........................

$

Moonroof ......................

8,988 8,988

$

04 HYUNDAI SANTA FE GLS/LX 8,988

$

SOLD 9,988

#152375........................

$

06 SUBARU IMPREZA 2.5I $

$

4x4 ...............................

$

4x4 ...............................

$

4-Door Hatchback..........

8,988

05 CHEVY IMPALA 1-Owner ........................

$

8,988

06 HYUNDAI SANTA FE GL/LTD Black.............................

$

8,988

07 CHRYSLER SEBRING TOURING Clean ............................

$

8,988

07 KIA RONDO EX $ #042008, 3rd Row Seating

8,988

9,988

08 CHEVY IMPALA LS 1-Owner ........................

08 PONTIAC G5 Convertible....................

03 ACURA MDX 3rd Row ........................

$

$

05 SCION TC 1-Owner ........................

$

$

$

9,988

81K Miles, 4-Door ....

$

$

$

$

10,988

08 HYUNDAI TIBURON GS

SOLD 10,988

#290297...................

$

11 NISSAN VERSA 4-Door .......................

$

11,988

11 TOYOTA YARIS Automatic...................

$

Like New ....................

11,988

#219588.....................

9,988

$

9,988 9,988 9,988 9,988 9,988

SOLD 9,988 $

$

11,988 11,988

SOLD 11,988 $

07 JEEP COMMANDER $

11,988

07 HONDA CIVIC LX 40K Miles ..................

$

12,988

10 TOYOTA COROLLA S/LE/XL SOLD $

12,988

08 SATURN VUE XR AWD Moonroof ..................

$

12,988

07 HYUNDAI SANTA FE SE/LIM Moonroof ..................

$

12,988

06 MERCURY MOUNTAINEER PREMIER AWD 3rd Row ....................

$

12,988

05 GMC CANYON 4X4 4DOOR $

SOLD 12,988

#262693....................

$14,988 and Under

08 HONDA PILOT EX 3rd Row ...................

$

13,988

08 TOYOTA RAV4 3rd Row ...................

$

13,988

09 NISSAN FRONTIER LE/SE Xtra Cab ...................

$

13,988

09 TOYOTA CAMRY LE #305781...................

$

13,988

10 DODGE NITRO SE

SOLD 13,988

#142967...................

09 PONTIAC G6

3rd Row .....................

07 CHEVY MONTE CARLO LT #107551........................

10 FORD FOCUS SE

#8145A .....................

$

10,988

09 DODGE JOURNEY SXT

06 CHRYSLER 300 #330600........................

$

9,988

07 DODGE NITRO SXT Save Thousands ............

40K Miles .................

07 FORD FUSION SEL AWD

07 MAZDA MAZDA6I Automatic......................

09 CHRYSLER SEBRING LX

9,988

03 NISSAN MAXIMA GLE/GXE 1-Owner ........................

$12,988 and Under

#150314.....................

1-Owner ........................

$

9,988

08 JEEP COMPASS SPORT

03 INFINITI G35

04 SCION XB

9,988

08 JEEP PATRIOT SPORT

Moonroof ......................

8,988

9,988

07 SAAB 9-3 2.0T

04 JEEP LIBERTY LIMITED $

9,988

06 JEEP LIBERTY SPORT

8,988

SOLD 8,988

AWD .............................

60K Miles ......................

Moonroof ......................

04 GMC SONOMA

$

04 SAAB 9-5 ARC

#819390........................

03 VW PASSAT GLS $

$9,988 and Under

8,988

03 NISSAN ALTIMA SL

4-Door ..........................

04 DODGE DAKOTA SPORT Extra Cab ........................

$8,988 and Under

$

03 HUMMER H2 White ........................

$

07 FORD EDGE 59K Miles..................

$

14,988 14,988

07 JEEP WRANGLER X Unlimited, Auto .........

$

14,988

07 SATURN OUTLOOK XR SPEC 3rd Row ....................

$

14,988

08 NISSAN TITAN XE/SE/LE Extra Cab ..................

$

14,988

09 MITSUBISHI LANCER GTS Moonroof ..................

$

14,988

10 HYUNDAI SANTA FE Save Thousands ........

$

14,988

11 FORD FUSION SE Like New ...................

$

14,988

12 FORD FOCUS SEL $

40K, 4-Door ..............

14,988

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