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From TV dramas using Beaver County backdrops, to local musicians playing sold-out stadiums & theaters, 2021 was a notable year in entertainment

On his first full-length album, Charlie Barath takes the blues into tasty new territory. Barath treats us to haluski, pierogi, halupki and the smell of kielbasa in the kitchen on "High Ball & a Covered Dish," a song inspired by the cooking of his mother, a first generation Polish-American. Forget the catfish, cornbread, beans and barbecue typically on the lyrical menu of blues songs, Barath's "High Ball & a Covered Dish" kicks dupa (look it up) with its ode to Eastern European heritage carrying over to his mom wearing a babushka.  The Center Township bluesman's whole "Just Me and My...

We feel ya', Redlines. We're all coming off a rough year, reflected in the anxiety, pain and ultimate determination to stay strong that's manifested in "The Bones Under the Morning Sun," the second full-length album from the Butler-Beaver band. Nine years into their existence, the Redlines mine from classic rock, distilled with '60s soul, '70s punk and '80s heartland rock — and traces of power-pop and garage rock. “You can hear our growth,” vocalist-guitarist Brian Seese said. “You can hear us coming together as a band in real-time, from song to song.” Seese is quick to cred...