Erie Reader

02/09/2025

Album Review // Ed Randazzo // Wishing On A Train

Erie Reader is Erie PA's weekly newspaper & features in-depth coverage of news, arts, & entertainment while exploring & discussing issues of our city.

02/08/2025

Erie native Jamie Pietras hosts a new podcast produced by A+E called Soul Incarcerated, which tells the story of The Edge of Daybreak, a band that was formed by inmates at the Powhatan Correctional Center and who recorded their album *Eyes of Love while incarcerated. The band has since reunited and recorded a fresh album called *New Horizons.

Podcast shines a light on creativity and incarceration

02/07/2025

Dress your best and join the folks from OddCity Entertainment as they present an exciting option for your Valentine's season featuring local music from Do Not Call List, pictured, as well as DJ Lone Sav, TayJer, Ducky, Fastfall, Velvet Waves, and Logan B and Dirty Leaf, along with local vendors.

Jam-packed OddCity Event is a chance to dress up and get down

02/07/2025

The following are our notes taken during the City Council meeting held on Feb. 5 at 9 a.m.

Rundown of ordinances and public comments

02/06/2025

Launching this spring comes the latest initiative from the partnership between Bridgeway Capital and the PennWest Edinboro Beehive called NWPAMade, which helps support maker-entrepreneurs in Erie and Crawford counties. Pictured are the graduates of the 2024 ErieMade Business Academy, which is the predecessor to this program.

Free entrepreneurial support program for maker-entrepreneurs

02/06/2025

Local theater group All An Act Theatre Productions continues to work on restoring and repairing their building which was damaged by fire last year, but the show must go on! Catch their season opener, The Mysterious Affair at Styles: A Hercule Poirot Mystery, hosted by the Station Dinner Theatre.

The group's familiar opener in a temporary setting

02/06/2025

From the Editor: On Micro-Community
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With cover artist statement

02/06/2025

New Black History Month issue out today! Find it on select newsstands and online throughout the month. Grab your copy today! 📰

Cover Art: Nicholas Cardell Gore
Cover Layout: Nick Warren

01/29/2025

Tommy in Toon: January 2025
by Tommy Link

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01/28/2025

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01/28/2025

Feel the power of the Japanese drumming troupe Yamato as they return to Erie for one night only at the Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center at Mercyhurst University. Their new program, Hito no Chikara: The Power of Human Strength, is their most moving performance yet.

Fan-favorite returns to the Mercyhurst stage

01/27/2025

Presque Isle State Park isn't just for summertime fun. Join the folks from the Presque Isle Partnership as they present their annual Winter Discovery Day featuring food, warm drinks, horse-drawn carriage rides, and demonstrations of sled dogs, ice fishing, snowshoeing, and more with tours of the Presque Isle Lighthouse.

A show in the snow

01/24/2025

Dobar Genimet
by Brad Pattullo

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01/23/2025

Book Review: Rental House

Author Weike Wang exceptional in lending intrigue to unexceptional circumstances

01/23/2025

Album Review // Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms // Gold in Your Pocket

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01/22/2025

Fish That Talk: Artist's Block
by John Bavaro

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01/21/2025

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