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The Millcreek School District gets the Toy treatment of this week's edition of Just Toyin' Witcha.

You can't buy them anymore, but you can win them!

In remembrance of the recently deceased Henry Hill, a review of the mobster classic, Goodfellas.

Review of the Kevin Smith classic, "Mallrats." Snoochie Boochies!

A man sits at table. He?s wearing a blindfold, squirming nervously. Two cops shift about the room, thickening the tension with every move they make. Welcome to "The Pillowman."

A new political cartoon debuts in the Erie Reader.

This gallery is quite unlike others. It isn?t a big room with paintings around the walls and a sculpture in the middle. Rather, it is two galleries: one on the ground level, with a larger, lovelier gallery on second floor, which in turn is a series of smaller galleries set up like parlors, offices, and dining rooms with art in them??a real gallery,? as one of my companions on a recent visit said.

It began in 1968 when the visions of two people became one: host an alternative art and music event in Erie. Forty-four years ago, a few tables and a stage where a handful of local musicians performed adorned some green lawn space at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. Fast-forward four decades later to when a three-day festival featuring a juried fine-art exhibit, multi-media workshops, a host of children?s programs, and three-days worth of art and musical performances unfurls at Liberty Park and Burger King Amphitheater on Erie?s Bayfront June 22 to 24.

This is hands-down the coolest antique store in the Tri-State area. Original, unique, edgy, industrial, romantic, eclectic, special?words fall short, really, so I?ll let the picture do the talking, a visual journey for you.

The Romolo Chocolates Summer Music Series brings several different performers to town, hosting them right at the confectionary?s outdoor piazza and parking lot. For 10 summery Saturdays, a variety of artists will play everything from latin jazz to indie rock, all right on West Eighth Street right by Frontier Park from 6 to 9 a.m.

For your viewing pleasure, three films ripped from the Erie Reader Queue.

Need help crafting that Spotify playlist? Bieler and Speggen to the rescue with four albums for your listening pleasure.

Supermarket Illusions: Scores of brands of cereal, made by very few producers. So many are already sweetened it's hard to choose unsweetened "original" ones. Pre-sweetened ones are deceptively "cheap," because you pay taxes to subsidize corn production.

In the time it took me to write this article, I could have created Facebook accounts for half of the PA Legislature.

?When you live you have to do something for your country, you have to make a contribution. You have to stand for the truth.?