This Sunday is the 84th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, which will be televised at 8:30 p.m. on ABC-TV (WNEP locally), with plenty of pre-show red carpet coverage, as well. Nine-time host Billy Crystal will again serve as emcee of Hollywood’s biggest night, when best acting honors are given out to the elite performances from the [...]

Fat Tuesday is approaching this coming week, and there’s plenty to do in NEPA if you’re looking to celebrate the last hurrah before Ash Wednesday and the Lenten season begins. Starting tonight, Genetti Hotel and Conference Center in Wilkes-Barre is hosting “Mardi Gras Madness,” with live entertainment by party band M-80 and Louisiana-inspired cuisine, such [...]

  People around the globe were shocked and saddened to hear of the untimely death of pop icon Whitney Houston at the age of 48 on Saturday. The singer, actress and mother was found unresponsive in a hotel in Beverly Hills just one day before the 54th annual Grammy Awards, and speculation of the cause [...]

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, and since Feb. 14 falls on a Tuesday this year, many folks will be looking to celebrate (or perhaps drown their sorrows) this weekend. There’s no shortage of events happening in Northeast Pennsylvania to satisfy your lust for life or a loved one, and we’ve even included some [...]

The 54th annual GRAMMY Awards are scheduled for telecast this Sunday, Feb. 12, on CBS from 8 to 11:30 p.m. Considered music’s highest honor in the U.S. (and for many international artists), this year’s program is being hosted by rapper LL Cool J, and will feature live performances by a very broad cross-selection of today’s [...]

Super Bowl XLVI is only 50 hours away, and sports fans are already gearing up for a tense match up between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots on Sunday. The Big Game is set to start at 6:30 p.m. and will be broadcast to millions from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Aside [...]

The State of the Union Address: On Tuesday, Jan. 24, President Obama gave the annual televised speech that assesses the current standing of the country on a variety of topics, from economy, foreign policy, national morale to hotly debated domestic issues. Highlights of the President’s speech included his introduction of a “Trade Enforcement Unit that [...]

Bright and early Tuesday morning, the nominations for the 2012 Academy Awards (also known as the Oscars) were announced, and, as is almost always the case, there were some major snubs and major surprises. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognizes actors, actresses, directors, screenwriters and more each winter with golden statuettes widely [...]

This week, buzzwords like “SOPA” and “PIPA” (not to be confused with Pippa–Middleton–the popular sister of the Duchess of Cambridge) have been dominating television, print, and online news coverage…and you may have noticed difficulty logging onto sites like Wikipedia. But what does it all mean? What is going on, and why is there a huge [...]

       By Nick DeMarco         It’s hard to deny the success of lead singer Rob Thomas on two solo albums Something To Be, in 2005, and Cradlesong in 2009, but there’s something downright magical when it all comes together in the band known as Matchbox Twenty. In 1995, the band [...]