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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.?

This wouldn?t be complete without a charitable event attached to a great cause. And this event is a regular Thursday night occurrence: the Erie Downtown Block Parties?a summer staple provided by the Erie Downtown Partnership. U Pick 6 is hosting one and the group has personally chosen the Erie chapter of the Red Cross as the official recipient of all funds they receive through their donation drive efforts that night.

The most racially charged areas of the United States? First is West Virginia. Quickly followed by western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and upstate New York. That is, home.

Erie once played host to musical royalty ? royalty like Van Halen, Black Sabbath, KISS, AC/DC with both lead singers, Judas Priest for six days, and Frank Zappa. And, oh yeah, Barry Manilow too.

?When seated, a concertgoer may expect to take in the 80-foot-wide by 40-foot-high stage set on the beach, with the lake just to their right as the sun goes down at about thirty degrees to their left. I think the juxtaposition of the grandeur of the stage placed in this wonderful natural setting near sundown will be quite magical ? certainly a once in a lifetime experience for most.?

A note from the editors to get you ready for the June 13 issue.

Was it a flop? Is it NASDAQ's fault? All eyes are on FB.