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The renowned Moscow Festival Ballet will present the oldest ballet in active repertoire Saturday at Zoellner Arts Center.This Russian company, under Artistic Director Sergei Radchenko, will perform "Giselle," a story about the power of true love.The romantic ballet tells the tale of the peasant...

Allentown Brew Works teams up with other craft breweries on Saturday for its 6th annual Cask Beer Festival, where brewers create new tastes for beer lovers to sample.Cask ale is unfiltered and unpasteurized beer that is conditioned (including secondary fermentation) and served from a cask without...

It's been said that Nellie McKay was born 30 years too late.The charismatic singer, who grew up in Mt. Pocono, has shown she's adept at interpreting contemporary styles. Her debut disc, 2004's "Get Away from Me," includes rap and pop, and her newest release, 2015's "My Weekly Reader," covers songs...

Get up close and personal with our national bird, the bald eagle, as well as other live raptors such as the snowy owl during Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum's annual Eaglefest, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.The event celebrates the beauty and power of raptors — from eagles and hawks to owls and falcons...

HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf threatened Wednesday to veto a fresh piece of spending legislation that Republicans offered as an end to an eight-month budget fight, but that the Democrat criticized as "irresponsible and unbalanced" without a tax increase.The partisan standoff has left billions of dollars...

The Nazareth Area School District has posted a strike update on its website that lists information for parents should teachers walkout Friday as planned. The district advised parents to check the website for future updates.Here is what the update said:

It has been a decade since a pair of sprightly teenage Irish fiddlers stepped into the local musical limelight with joyously energetic live performances at Celtic Classic and Godfrey Daniels and an impressive debut album.For the leader of Burning Bridget Cleary, none of the enthusiasm for the band...

Bethlehem native Heidi Ott traveled more than 3,000 miles across the ocean to Ireland to find the courage to share her singing voice and her songwriting with the world.It first took a string of chance encounters, a painful personal loss and the persistence of an accomplished Irish musician and...

The costs of renovations at Paxinoa Elementary have risen again — this time to $22.7 million — as the Easton Area School District contemplates reconfiguring the school first built for high schoolers for younger students. District officials began talking about upgrading the elementary school last...

The speed limit on most of the Pennsylvania Turnpike will soon rise to 70 mph, and interstates may soon follow suit.The turnpike increase will take effect this spring, after an 18-month pilot program on a 100-mile section of the statewide toll road showed no significant increase in crashes or average...