Category: events
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From Lehigh Valley News. com: Wayne Sherrer at the Sigal Museum
Our own Wayne Sherrer appeared in Lehigh Valley News.com as part of their Black History in the Lehigh Valley article: Graves and genealogy Additionally, author Rev. Wayne C. Sherrer’s exhibition, “Phorgotten No More: Glimpses of African-American Presence in Phillipsburg, NJ 1777-2021,” shines the light of the Black experience in the…
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Echo City Capers at B&N March 16
Our dynamic due, Joe and Ralph, return to the Barnes and Noble store in Easton (@Southmont Center 4445 Southmont Way Easton, PA 18045) on March 16th, from 11-5 See the event page here. This will mark their first appearance at this B&N (but certainly not their last…I’ll report on the…
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The Poetry Preseason
In February, on the first of the month, Parisian Phoenix will be sponsoring the poetry workshop supplies for the Noble Quills Poetry Workshop and Open Mic at the Barnes & Noble, Southmont Shopping Center, Bethlehem Township, Pa. The event starts at 7 p.m. in the Barnes & Noble cafe, which their cafe…
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Friends of Pete at the Pomfret Club
Happy Wednesday– this week (with the snow of last weekend, the rain and wind storm of last night and the about-time arrival of winter temperatures) has been moving both slowly and quickly. Today, Darnell Davis and Pete Reinke of the Friends of Pete networking group hosted a Lunch N Learn…
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Girls’ Night Out at Boser Geist
Last week I got a message from fine artist and art book maker Maryann Riker of Justarip Press. She and I have known each other at least 20 years through my newspaper days in Phillpsburg, N.J. I heard about her art books and asked if I could do a piece…
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Meeting a Cover Girl
At the Holiday Market hosted by Blue Flame Events at the Palmer Park Mall (which is now full of an intriguing variety of small businesses), Joe and I met a young woman who looked like she belonged on the cover of Juicy Bits. We asked her to pose with the book and gave her a copy.…
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Coke Zero and cinnamon doughnuts: The Universe at work as I prep for a new post on Substack
It’s a sunny Saturday afternoon in December. I’m drinking Coke Zero and pounding down cinnamon Tastykake mini donuts– the blend of sugar and sassy cinnamon fresher and tastier than I’ve had in years. It’s 1:30 p.m. and already today I’ve talked to one of our authors, our photography and our…
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Another Day in the Life of a Small Publisher (December edition)
As publisher here at Parisian Phoenix, my days never quite go as planned. But I thought I’d take a moment to describe a recent approximate 24-hours-in-the-life. Let’s start roughly at 5 p.m. last night. I had completed a project earlier in the day for a client, and sent it to…
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Wow, it’s December: Time for the Echo City Christmas Special
Imagine a modern version of the Grinch, where Santa is just a text message away and the threat to Christmas is not a man covered in tatty green fur but the latest MegaMall. That’s what you’ll find in the Echo City Capers Junior Christmas Special by illustrator Joseph Swarctz and…
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More on the visits to Northampton Community College
Twice this semester, we’ve posted about Parisian Phoenix author visits to Northampton Community College where our talented art director teaches graphic design. One of the coolest– and apparently hardest– classes in the journalism program there is “media publications,” where students learn the basics of graphic design to enable them to…
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