Down to the wire and a ticking time clock. Sounds like just another work deadline, if you ask me. But this work project involves an unexploded WW2 bomb that is discovered on a busy central London construction site. Chaos ensues as the military and local police begin mass city evacuations. Sounds like one banger of an afternoon, or the type of hysteria that comes out of Washington just about every other day lately.

“Smooth Criminal,” “Thriller,” “Billie Jean,” “You Are Not Alone,” “Man in the Mirror.” Just like the Energizer Bunny, the hit list of Michael Jackson singles goes on and on and on. Streams of Mr. Jackson’s catalog are up in record numbers since the release of this popular biopic, which has already made nearly $100 million dollars domestically in just its first week in theaters.

On average, around 6.8 million households in the U.S. are filled with roommates who share a dwelling and are unrelated. One must really screen their potential candidates closely in this day and age, though, you definitely do not want a “Single White Female” scenario transpiring!

Happy Earth Day! We could fill this space with concerns about the current president’s peculiar obsession with attacking renewable energy projects like wind and solar power, or his baffling embrace of an electric-car-pioneering billionaire while insisting that oil is the future. We could argue that even if you believe “global warming” isn’t proven, we would still be better off getting past fossil fuels. How different would the war with Iran be if we had reduced reliance on oil here and elsewhere?

We had leftover kielbasa after Easter, but it wasn’t from the Easter meal. All the remains of Easter (except some ham, used for a soup I’ll write about soon) had been pretty much finished, but MT got a hankering for more of the Polish sausage, so she cooked up a ring in the freezer. She had bought two, one for Easter, and one for sometime later. “Later” just came a lot sooner than expected.

When Elizabeth Lovecchio’s third child started school in the fall of 1970, she decided it was time for a new beginning for Mom, too.

As Christine Leandri and her students from Wyoming Area’s gifted program stood admiring a very tall, very old, white pine, Christopher Miller asked a question:

Choirs, multimedia projections, and NASA astronaut Nicole Stott join NEPA PHIL for “Planets, Moons, & Star Wars” at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 1, anchoring a weekend of family-friendly space-themed events in Scranton at the Cultural Center, the Everhart Museum, and the Lackawanna County Children’s Library.

Marquis Art & Frame Second Floor Gallery is pleased to present “Iterations,” a solo exhibition of new work by regional artist Trinka Ravaioli. The exhibition will open with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 24.

MMI Preparatory School’s Prepper Playhouse will bring the classic story of Willy Wonka to the stage at 7 p.m. April 24 and April 25 in the Athletic and Drama Complex, 154 Centre St., Freeland.