Posts by Erie Culture Guru
The Erie Playhouse kicks off the 2025 Season
ERIE, PA (January 1, 2025) The Erie Playhouse kicks off the 2025 Season of Soaring Tales and Epic Adventures with the hit Broadway musical, WAITRESS, featuring memorable music and lyrics by GRAMMY Award winner Sara Bareilles. Jenna, played by Rebecca Keim in her Playhouse debut, a waitress and expert pie-maker, dreams of a way out…
Read MoreSchiook Didn’t “Took “
Italiano Joe A Restaurant Review A few weeks ago, I dined at Schiook, a new place for eats in Meadville. Featuring an Asian-style menu, you could get a variety of vegetables and toppings atop a bed of different type of rices in a single bowl. Yay! Something different. I enjoyed the meal and about a…
Read MoreDon’t Exchange This Gift
Holiday Show 2024 at Glass Growers Gallery Was it intentional or mere happenstance? The “Holiday Show 2024” currently at Glass Growers Gallery contains three different artists whose individual aesthetic visions solely portray nature. Somehow I was expecting a “holiday show” to offer imagery of Kris Kringle, elves or families gathered ‘round the Thanksgiving dinner. But…
Read MoreThe Cider House Rules
Luminary Distilling, Fuhrman’s Cider & Eatery It all started when I heard about a forgotten apple orchard that a coworker had told me about behind his second workplace. Curious, and loving cider and in the neighborhood one day, I found the spot, picked some apples, then Googled “cider mill Erie.” That’s when I first heard…
Read MoreOctober Evenings at MCA
Scary Good “October Evenings” at Meadville Council of the Arts An Art Review Presenting art from within a 250-mile radius, Meadville Council on the Arts offers its autumn show, “October Evenings.” Approximately 40 artworks from a variety of mediums –pottery, painting, photography and sculpture – illustrate an abundance and variety of artists and…
Read MoreAllegheny College Sound Show
Hey, Listen, Here! “OPEN SOUND CONTROL” at Allegheny College An Art Review Through different artists’ interpretations, a current show at Allegheny College challenges viewers to reexamine what sound is and how sound can control and be controlled. OPEN SOUND CONTROL features artists representing three different schools: Allegheny College, Northwestern University and the University…
Read More“The ‘Horror’…the ‘Horror’”
The Rocky Horror Show at The Academy Theatre It was a dark and stormy night. Two innocents arrive at a foreboding castle with foreboding people present on a very special night. Add a lusty transvestite with a Dr. Frankenstein complex who’s hatched a perverse plan for his own pleasures and throw in some interplanetary hi-jinx. …
Read MorePlein & Simple
Dan Dahlkemper at Glass Growers Gallery An Art Review It’s safe to call Dan Dahlkemper a “plein-air” artist. And that’s certainly a compliment. After all, how better to capture tree lines, groves, sunsets and streams upon canvas than by experiencing them out in nature? As such, every one of his approximately 25 acrylic paintings currently…
Read MoreJust Call Me “Mr. Brown-Thumb”
A “Fool-osophy” of Life Essay Over the August 3-4 weekend, I brought my lawnmower into my vegetable garden and cut it down. What there was of it. I had deliberated about doing such all week, but after a slow mournful walk through my 15’ x 15’ garden plot, I knew what I had to do,…
Read MoreSculptor Aaron Kramer at Erie Art Museum
Reuse, Recycle and Repurpose (For Art’s Sake) “Sense of Wonder: Aaron Kramer”At Erie Art Museum An Art Review A sense of wonderment and joy is immediately bestowed on visitors upon seeing Erie Art Museum’s latest exhibit: “Sense of Wonder: Aaron Kramer.” Kramer, a tinkerer, imagineer and crafter all rolled into one, offers up approximately 40 creations…
Read More