Tuesday, June 18, 2013
     
 
 
Eclectic Circus performed in the streets and sidewalks during the event. From left are Bryant Butala, Dani Davison  and Jess  Smallwood. See additional photos on page 2
Father's Day made for a fun day during the Tamaqua Historical Society's 23rd Annual Tamaqua Summerfest held in downtown Tamaqua on Sunday. In addition to more than 90 crafters and food venders, visitors to the family-oriented festival enjoyed traditional activities, in addition to a few new ones this year.
DON HERB/Special to THE TIMES NEWS Northern Valley's Colin Breidinger pulls his bat back as North Parkland's Kevin Jones catches the ball in his glove.
Unfortunate circumstances are a part of any game. For the Northern Valley legion baseball team, they saw one of those unfortunates play a part in their 5-4 defeat to North Parkland in eight innings on Sunday evening. After the Chargers had tied it at four in the bottom of the sixth inning, a scoreless seventh inning set the game into extra innings. In that eighth inning, a Parkland grounder took a bad infield hop that bounced over the head of second baseman Brady Mengel, resulting in the game-...
New York Times Best-Selling Author and former Parkland resident, Lauren Weisberger has reason to smile due to her successful career.
Summer a time for great beach fashion and great beach books. What's trending this season? Cobalt blue, Palazzo pants and "Revenge Wears Prada," New York Times best-selling author and former Parkland resident Lauren Weisberger's much-anticipated sequel to chick-lit hit, "The Devil Wears Prada."
There's not a lot of magic in "Now You See Me," even though the film's milieu is prestidigitation. There are digital special effects aplenty the kind of cinematic magic we expect in sci-fi, fantasy and action films. The special effects cannot distract from a weak screenplay with half-baked plot and lack of character development. "Now You See Me" inadvertently proves a motto said in the film by one of the magicians: "The closer you look, the less you see."