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If We Were You - May 29 - June 11

Black Flag comes to the crooked i, Erie's Wild Rib Cook-off and Music Festival

You have to be a senior citizen in Erie to know the name of Leon Dryfoos, one of the city's great characters in its long history. Born in 1892, Dryfoos grew up in Erie in the colorful turn-of-the-century era when the city was still a major port and a growing industrial center, and was just beginning to formalize the cultural institutions which have continued to this day.

House Republicans are at it again, desperately searching for something – anything – to stick to the president and his administration.

Erie knows how to come together to celebrate its past -- something in which this community takes great pride. After all, the fleet that Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry led was built right here in our bay. So post-War of 1812 America unfolded the way it did largely because of Erie's role in the U.S.'s victory in the Battle of Lake Erie, a lake after which we draw our city and county's namesake.

Dahlkemper defeats Grossman; County Council incumbants out

Google Glass – What's it going to be like?

Head to Basement Transmissions Tuesday, May 21 to catch this D.C. indie band on the rise.

On Monday, May 13, we held the third Erie Reader Downtown Debate Series at the Jefferson Educational Society. The debates focused on the race for the Erie County Executive, and were, as Erie Reader Editor-in-Chief Adam Welsh said in his opening remarks, "a big deal."

You may not have heard, but, on a recent Saturday, there was a strange sighting at the Bayfront Convention Center.

There exist both Zen and minimal elements. She uses everyday materials – cellophane, roofing felt, plastic Christmas tree needles – and yet what's so Zenfully twisted about it is that you begin to see the properties, the natural state of these things becoming magnificent.

Money does not win elections. Well, money helps. But elections are rigged like the games you find on the carnival midway, but it's not money that decides them. Instead, it's redistricting.

Our Mystery Food Critic Visits the Smugglers' Wharf

This week: Women at work and redistricting. 

Whatever materializes we know this to be true: accessories and gadgets are our favorite gent's artillery to style and be styled.  We look to our handsome brood to show us the way to cutting edge coolness.  They read Wire and we read Vogue.  It makes sense.  Ladies, we're sitting this one out; we'll just try to keep up!