Of the hardcore bands that have sprouted up in Northeast Pennsylvania since the rise of Breaking Benjamin in the early 2000s, the most successful has been Motionless in White. The gothic group whose ...

2025 Luzerne County Arts & Entertainment Hall of Famers Abilene performed two numbers and an encore at the second annual induction ceremony. • The Badlees —The roots rock band that went national with ...

For most of their career, the Leer Brothers Band were just on the edge of stardom. Their identity was often in flux, as they were known under quite a few different names during their decade and a half ...

In the Nashville songwriting scene, Luzerne County’s Matthew Rogers stands as one of the most creative and collaborative voices around. Songs credited to Rogers’ pen have hit the top of the charts, ...

Bob Heim is one of the quintessential, wholesome Luzerne County personalities. Through his multiple professional and private endeavors, Heim has simply had a knack for being involved with a community ...

Lillian Cahn is the perfect example of someone who spent critical formative years in Luzerne County, gathered important insights while living here, and later used those insights to change the world.

Joe and John — have been fixtures on the local music scene for decades, so much so that their stage names are practically synonymous with polka music in Luzerne County. Born with the surname Stankovic ...

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a number of local musicians were influenced by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, and many of them would go on to form bands of their own. In the Luzerne County of ...

If an event or story is music-related and based in Luzerne County, there’s a good chance that it can be traced back to Alan K. Stout. Whether it’s interviewing a legendary musician or organizing a ...

Born in Hazleton and raised in Kingston and Wilkes-Barre, investigative journalist Paul Pringle has committed his professional life to truth and holding corrupted individuals and institutions ...

The sculptor Lawrence Russo was born in Solofra, Italy, near Naples, in 1897, and was brought along with his family to the United States as a boy. Raised in Brooklyn, Russo represented the seventh ...

Marion Lorne is perhaps the most successful actress to ever come from Luzerne County, not only due to her incredible longevity, but also to her skill. Over the course of seven different decades in the ...