Category Archives: The Local Scene

It’s Not Hard — Sucky Movies Equal Sucky Returns

Time for our reminders of the week: The monthly PopRox chat is set for Friday at noon. Yesterday I asked for suggestions on a name for this monthly activity and got a great suggestion from ace Pocono Record designer Andrea Higgins: “The PopRox Nooner.” Good luck to anyone trying to beat that out. Friday at noon we’ll [...]
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Rescue Me from Boredom

Two reminders, the same two reminders we’ll have all week: Reminder 1: The season finale of Rescue Me is tonight. Just kidding. The actual reminder is that we’re doing another PopRox live chat Friday at noon. We’ve had fun with these so far, so we’re going to keep doing them as long as it stays fun on the [...]
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Contest Time!

Before we get to the contest, this programming note: The next PopRox live chat is Friday at noon. Between the Emmys, the new TV season, fall movies and whatever else might be on your mind, there should be plenty to talk about. So come armed with some good questions and we’ll hang out for a [...]
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The Advent of Poconos 3-D

The Poconos has 3-D! Well, not yet, not til Friday, when the Poconos Movieplex unveils its new 3-D screen for the release of Piranha 3-D. And not that it matters to me since I have yet to even consider seeing a 3-D movie, but not having one feels like we’ve been living in some barren Arctic outpost. There [...]
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Live Chat Tomorrow!

One more day til we get to another edition of the PopRox live chat, which is right here tomorrow at noon. So it’s time to set some ground rules because in the July 2 edition, there were some … issues. It seemed like we had two camps of people, people that had important pop culture questions/comments/observations and [...]
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Who Will Be on Hollywood’s Next A-list?

We’re starting to kick around ideas for a PopRox podcast — or what we’re going to call the “Popcast.” Get it? Great. Just a 15-20 minute audio or video file of me bitching about the latest Avengers rumor, extrapolating the reasons why Mad Men is the best show on TV or talking about the best [...]
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Free Wurst Tickets!

Contest time! I just got five pairs of tickets to the Poconos’ Wurst Festival at Shawnee Mountain, good for EITHER July 17 or 18 (not a two-day pass). Let’s make this easy — just e-mail me with your name, age, residence and daytime contact info and you’re entered. You can get a good idea of the weekend and [...]
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It Was a Very Good Year

PopRox live chat. Tomorrow. Noon. Right here. Come one, come all, we’re answering burning pop culture questions all afternoon, so anything that’s on your mind, stop by and I’ll answer it for you. Even if I don’t know the answer, I’ll make something up. Feel free to start emailing questions in and I’ll answer them in the [...]
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Live Chat Coming Friday!

Quick hitter here under the guise of being a blog post, but it’s really just a reminder about the PopRox live chat Friday at noon: At the Record, we get dozens of faxes/emails a day from police departments. Almost none of them are remotely interesting. But today, I took one of the fax that claimed a [...]
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The Rise and Fall (and Rise?) of Craig Kilborn

Not to slam on local TV station Fox 56, but the actions it took last year — actions perfectly within its right and power — are now keeping most of us in the Poconos from seeing the new Craig Kilborn talk show, The Kilborn File. I’m just not whether to thank them or not. The show is [...]
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