Articles

In the last five years alone, Living Proof Pictures has produced three features, 10 shorts, and a 10-episode limited series involving hundreds of collaborators and local businesses. The films have traveled across the country and all over the world, developing a local and global fan base through inclusion at dozens of International Film Festivals. Festivals that have recognized Living Proof Pictures with 25 awards and over 30 additional nominations, including two wins and six nominations for founder Brandon C. Lay’s direction and eight wins and 11 nominations for performances from the Regular Players.

“My mother, Marianne Lebson, my most important artistic influence, passed away earlier this year." In a world where hardship and conflict affect everyone on both a global and individual scale, Lebson’s mother instilled in him the recognition of how important every individual is, how unfairly many are treated based on skin color or personal identity, how many are motherless, fatherless, or without a family at all, and how others deserve assistance whether they ask for it or not.

Bloc Dispensary is a collective of cannabis enthusiasts on a mission to make people feel good. They’ve developed unique dispensary concepts that stock a range of best in class cannabis products, coupled with unparalleled customer service.

The Allentown Art Museum is going big this fall, expanding their popular Cocktails & Collecting mixer, hosting a major exhibition of wondrous washi and celebrating the return of their world-renowned Rembrandt painting, which is, uh, yeah, kind of a big deal in itself.

Leading the way through innovation.

The Fab Lab at Northampton Community College offers access to machine training, software, and prototyping services. Their state-of-the-art facility is equipped with woodworking, metalworking, molding and casting, recording studio, electronic soldering, and programming and graphical printing equipment.

“I had no building, no students, no faculty, no money, and here I was: the principal of a school” says John Petruzzelli, principal of Kolbe Academy. Still, Petruzzelli calls it “an easy decision” to assume the helm of the first faith-based recovery high school in the nation.

Now through March 7th, 2021 critically acclaimed photographer Stephen Mallon shares a collection of some of his most captivating, riveting, and thought-provoking pieces in this new exhibit at Bethlehem’s National Museum of Industrial History.

Certified, positive training for your best friend.

There’s not a day when Dr. Jack Silva isn’t aware and grateful for how much his own life has been shaped by being a BASD kid.

The team at ADA is excited to announce the launch of their brand new, expanded Bethlehem location.

"We want every kid to live up to their full potential."