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Mary Biebel

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Mary Therese Biebel writes feature stories primarily about arts and entertainment and usually can be found whipping up a culinary creation in the Times Leader test kitchen each week. (That is a duty she shares with her husband, colleague and fellow cook, Mark Guydish). Biebel is a graduate of the former Bishop Hoban High School in Wilkes-Barre, and of King's College.
Over the course of a year the characters in ‘Rent’ — filmmaker Mark, musician Roger, dancer Mimi, activist Maureen, lawyer Joanne, and their friends Collins and Angel — experience the highs and lows of bohemian life. Submitted Photo

Dietrich Theater will hold free screenings of ‘Rent’ film

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If you like chocolate chip cookies and oatmeal raisin cookies, why not try a combination? Mary Therese Biebel | Times Leader

Oatmeal raisin cookies with chocolate chips could be ‘best of both...

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Lynn Gonchar and local historian Tony Brooks will bring a weekly series of local history lessons for adults to the JCC. Brooks will teach the lessons, set for 2 to 3 p.m. Monday, July 14 through Monday, Aug. 11. Mary Therese Biebel | Times Leader

Summer lectures on local history will be offered at Friedman JCC

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Young dancers who will portray tortoises in the ‘Carnival of the Animals’ rehearse for the June 7-8 productions. Mary Therese Biebel | Times Leader

“Carnival of the Animals,’ ‘Sleeping Beauty’ this weekend

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Look closely and you might be able to pick out the pistachios, pecans, cashews and pieces of the all-important dates in my double batch of ‘Chewy Fruit and Nut Bars,’ waiting here to be cut into pieces. Mary Therese Biebel | Times Leader Photo

Chewy Fruit and Nut Bars provide energy on the trail

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Emma Marek of Wapwallopen, left, holds a bag in which Bailey Murray of Kingston, using a pair of grabbers, deposits a piece of litter she picked up at Korn Street Park in Kingston. Mary Therese Biebel | Times Leader Photo

For a happy Earth: ‘Noni’ and Ayonna organize a park clean-up

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Seth Golden, Brad Vile and Poshi Walker rehearse a scene from ‘Mothers and Sons,’ which Diva Theater will present June 13 through June 22.

‘Mothers and Sons’ asks ‘What is family?’

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Led by a naturalist, hikers in this file photo venture into a wooded area. With National Trails Day coming up on Saturday, organized hikes are among the planned activities. Mary Therese Biebel | Times Leader File Photo

Enjoying the outdoors on National Trails Day

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Executive director of the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts Joelle Yarmel, right, and marketing director Neil Prisco are looking forward to the 2025-26 season of shows at the popular downtown Wilkes-Barre venue. Mary Therese Biebel | Times Leader

Kirby Center announces 39th season

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Endea Owens and The Cookout will perform at the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts as the Saturday evening headliner act during Wilkes-Barre’s Cavalcade of Jazz. Submitted Photo

Cavalcade of Jazz brings 3 days of music to W-B

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Melina Ospina-Wiese, center of top row, portrays the warrior title character in ‘The Story of Mulan,’ to be presented by Dance Theatre of Wilkes-Barre at the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts on May 31. Submitted Photo

A warrior grows strong

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Tomato soup puts the ‘Tomato’ in Macaroni Tomato Bake.

Facing a cold, damp day? Macaroni Tomato Bake will warm you...

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Hayden Rinehimer, 8, and Melania Kaufer, 6, participate in contra dancing on Wilkes-Barre Public Square on Sunday afternoon during the recent successful Fine Arts Fiesta. Liz Baumeister | Times Leader File Photo

‘People are enjoying the ever-living heck out of it’

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Trudy Coleman, 73, of Kingston, center, said her recovery from a stroke has been greatly aided by sessions with her occupational therapist at Allied Services, Lori Ackerman, left, as well as the surgical implantation of a Vivistim system. Rebecca Carr, at right, a representative of Vivistim, shows off a picture of a unicorn that Coleman painted and gave her. Mary Therese Biebel | Times Leader

Hard work, new technology aid recovery after a stroke

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‘A new chapter’ for Father Charles

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Kelly Ranieli, executive director of Volunteers in Medicine, shows off plans for a proposed expansion that would lead to more examination rooms, a teaching kitchen and other improvements at the VIM location on North Pennsylvania Boulevard in Wilkes-Barre. Mary Therese Biebel | Times Leader

Circus-themed gala to benefit Volunteers in Medicine

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These fries, which started in cold oil, were so good I made them three times within a week or two, the second two times just for myself. It did, however, take three tries before they came out so well. The first try came out nearly burnt, the second were at least edible but still too crisp. Turned out thickness matters. Mark Guydish |for Times Leader

“Cold start” French fries and an old “Veg-O-Matic”

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Red and green bell peppers, garlic, crushed tomatoes. onions, olive oil, bay leaves, ddry red wine and tomato paste are among the ingredients that went into Pork and Peppers Ragu, along with a pork butt that would have been a pork shoulder if our test cook could have found one. Mary Therese Biebel | Times Leader

Recipe ‘resurfaces’ for pork ragu that melts in your mouth

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Pennsylvania-based roots rock band The Badlees will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday as headliners for the 69th Fine Arts Fiesta in Wilkes-Barre. Submitted Photo

Fine Arts Fiesta will be May 15-18 on Public Square

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A life-size cutout of Pope Leo XIV stands by the bulletin board in the foyer at the Parish of St. Nicholas - St. Mary in downtown Wilkes-Barre. Mary Therese Biebel | Times Leader

‘God has given us a good shepherd’: Locals react to election...

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Black-eyed pea soup is a new venture for our test cook, who saw it as a way to use up a ham bone. Mary Therese Biebel | Times Leader

Black-eyed peas, ham bone combine in a savory soup

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The Burn Book — a scrapbook filled with photographs and malicious gossip about schoolmates — plays a role in the musical “Mean Girls,” which Broadway in Scranton will bring to the Scranton Cultural Center May 16-18. Submitted Photo

‘Mean Girls’ coming to Scranton Cultural Center

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Tyler Floryan of Plains Township, center, portrays Mortimer Brewster, a nephew dismayed to learn his Aunt Abby (Jennifer Frey Abdalla of Moosic) and Aunt Martha (Brenda Fager of Dalton) have been poisoning elderly men in Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre’s production of ‘Arsenic and Old Lace.’ Angel Berlane Mulcahy | On My Cue Photography

Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre presents ‘Arsenic & Old Lace’

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Lexi Barry as the Lion, Olivia Kurlandski as Toto, Sophia Kurlandski as Dorothy, Elliott Reynolds as the Tin Man, and Myles Madden as the Scarecrow are ready to set off down the Yellow Brick Road. Mary Therese Biebel | Times Leader

St. Nicholas – St. Mary School presents ‘Wizard of Oz’

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