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What: Acoustic Early Jazz
When: Friday, March 28, 8 p.m.
Where: St. Stephen's Community Room, Wilkes-Barre

Although he and his cohorts hail from New York City, Matt Munisteri's music could perhaps best be described as "midwestern swing."

There's a pastoral quality to Munisteri's Cole Porter-influenced songs, delivered in a warm, "regular guy" voice, and the band's front line of lightly amplified acoustic guitar, trumpet, and accordion make it the perfect replacement combo should the Prairie Home Companion house band ever have a run-in with a dodgy batch of tuna casserole.

Munisteri's wit is prodigious (he seems to have swallowed a rhyming dictionary) and his antecedents can be gleaned from a look at the songs he covers on Love Story.

Choice selections from Willard Robison, Hoagy Carmichael, Bob Dylan, and Van Dyke Parks sit comfortably among Munisteri's own. He's also a talented and original guitarist, alternating funky fingerpicking accompaniment, which often doubles his vocal melody, with pungent, jazzy single-note solos, and his midrangey, lo-fi tone is more reminiscent of blues guitarists than any of the standard jazz models.

April 24, 2003

Annual Take Back The Night march and rally to honor survivors of sexual violence.

March
Meet 7:30 pm at Covenant Presbyterian Church, Olive and Madison Streets, Scranton.

Rally
Meet 8:00 pm Lackawanna County Courthouse, Washington Avenue, Scranton.

The march will begin 7:45 pm from Covenant Presbyterian Church and end at the Lackawanna County Courthouse at approximately 8:00 pm. The rally will have speakers, music, and an open microphone for survivors and supporters to speak out against sexual violence.

For more information, contact Edie at the Women's Resource Center, 346-4460.

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In what has become one of the most eagerly anticipate signs of spring on Thursday, Mar. 20 Rita's Italian Ice will give away a free regular Italian ice to everyone that stops by one of their more than 260 locations from noon to closing.

With all this snow and ice lingering about Rita's seems like the perfect place to go... only 12 more days to go. I can hardly wait. Yum.

Ceremony is indoors, be prompt, come early help set up. Bring your materials for the networking table. Chairs will be provided. Clique sticks will be distributed so that "everyone has a drum." Donations are encouraged to cover expenses. NO potluck, alcohol, drugs or pets.

Sunday, Mar. 16, 2003 2:00 p.m. (Sharp) - 5:00 p.m. at The Waverly Community House, Waverly. Call Joseph with questions, comments, expressions of optimism, (570) 454 6491 or e-mail at jburinsky@psu.edu.

DIRECTIONS to the Waverly Community House (The COMM).

Take Route 81 North to exit #194 (old #58), Clarks Summit. Follow signs to Clarks Summit, Rt 6 and Rt 11 North and West. On off ramp, stay to your right..at immediate traffic light, go right onto South Abington Road, Rt 307 towards Clarks Green. Go about four (4) miles. Thru Clarks Green, passing a small golf course on your left, up a hill into town, see the COMM on your left, a big early American historic building, with parking in the back thereof.