First Friday Scranton will return to the downtown tonight from 6-9 p.m. with great art and music planned at galleries and businesses throughout the Electric City. GreenBeing, 334 Adams Ave., will host a benefit for Kelly Ruddy with artwork by Nicole Barrasse, Megan Lee and Allison Larussa and music by Jacob Cole and friends. Keep Reading

The November First Friday art walk is nearly here and it’s shaping up to be another great night of local art and music. Thirty venues are scheduled to take part in the November First Friday, set for Friday, Nov. 6, from 6-9 p.m. New and notable this month are Aglio Restaurant, 341 N. Washington Ave., featuring watercolors by local artists; the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce, 222 Mulberry St., hosting works...

You can’t tell fall has begun by looking at the line up for the First Friday Scranton art walk scheduled for this Friday, Oct. 2. It’s packed with 28 venues across (and outside) downtown. Unique for October, Duffy Accessories, 218 Linden St., will be hosting a Literary Look-alike Contest with a chance to vote for your favorite look-alike. Performing at Outrageous, 515 Center St., will be local long-form improv...

A new exhibit opened recently at the University of Scranton Hope Horn Gallery, “Landscape In Situ: Paintings by Andres Alvarez.” The exhibition features local landscapes painted on cereal boxes, produced during the time that Alvarez, an artist from Medellin, Colombia, worked at the University of Scranton as a Foreign Language Teaching Assistant. While residing in the Scranton area, Alvarez became interested...

Beginning February 9, The University of Scranton will host national traveling exhibition “Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation,” which details Lincoln’s quest to restore a Union divided by Civil War. The exhibit will be hosted in the Heritage Room of the University of Scranton’s Weinberg Memorial Library through March 22 and will feature reproductions of rare historical documents and photographs...

The University of Scranton student newspaper, Aquinas, recently launched a new website at www.scrantonaquinas.com. Keep Reading