Abby Badach

You know you?ve made it in the film industry when a line from your first commercial success makes the American Film Industry?s list of the top 100 movie quotes of all time ? a list compiled just five years after its release.

The GAA is big ? so big, in fact, that it can?t be confined to just one day! Clip and save this handy guide to the GAA goings-on as you join Pennsylvanians from across the state in navigating an entire week of pre-celebrations as well as an afterparty that is not to be missed.

Erie?s no stranger to art festivals. Heck, the dust from Erie?s notorious Chalk Walk is still faintly visible on State Street, and strains of the Erie Art Museum?s Blues and Jazz Festival can still faintly be heard blowing through the wind. But the upcoming Pennsylvania Governor?s Awards for the Arts ? with a week of county-wide celebrations slated to begin on Sept. 16 ? is in a league all its own.

She?s a disco diva, actress, Philadelphia native, and Distinguished Artist Award recipient in the 1998 Governor?s Awards for the Arts ? and she also makes a mean sesame chicken stir fry.

Whether you?re running in time with your iPod, dancing in the front row of an 8 Great Tuesdays concert, or cruising home from work and cranking a well-worn CD, your favorite music moves you.

Let?s face it: we?re not all called to be novelists or published poets. But when we can?t shake an image or a phrase or a feeling from our heads, we turn to our tattered notebooks and beloved Moleskine journals or even bar napkins. Humans are communicators through language by nature, and finding just the right way to say what we want to say can be an art form.

"Won't you be my neighbor?"

There are invaders lurking below the surface, threatening our recreation, our fishing industry...

He's cooked for presidents, speaks six languages, and makes something more than just ice cream. Abby Badach tells us you ought to know Tim Brown of Gelateria Barbara.

Meanwhile, in the city… a different kind of community support.

Is buying local becoming the way to get produce? Abby Badach checks out the Community-Supported Agriculture scene in Erie.

Six acts. Two days. One reviewer. Abby Badach was there.

Ever wonder if one unwashed container ruins an entire bag of recycables? Abby Badach has the answer to that and more.

Clad in jeans, a blazer, and Converse sneakers, 30-year-old Dobry could be any young professional just getting out of work. But he's not. He's a pirate.

For a writer, it's hard to turn off that inner narrator. Despite her best efforts to keep that narrative going, Abby Badach managed to turn it off and relax with some Yin yoga. But thankfully she turned it back on and wrote this column.