I'm a features writer for the Erie Times-News in Erie, PA. I cover cooking, dining and food news, as well as the city’s fine arts and leisure opportunities.
Amazing how you can subscribe to any service instantly & they take your $ with one click but when you try to cancel, suddenly you need to call their helpline which is always too busy and so you have to find a dragon to fly you to Mordor to slay your subscription in the flesh. ⚔️
Cinemark is hosting Batman Day Saturday with showings of Batman classics:
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) at 2:15pm
Batman (1989) at 4:30pm
Batman Returns (1992) 30th Anniversary at 7:25pm
FOMOINFO: https://t.co/UemWboPTRN
or the Cinemark app.
Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice Latte goes on sale tomorrow. In case you needed further proof that we STILL HAVE 3 WEEKS OF SUMMER LEFT, GOSHDARNED IT. Let us not trample over it our haste to call it the "unofficial start of fall." It aint't. https://t.co/gM4gEk0iyv
Passing along: Erie's own Blind Tiger Spirit-Free Cocktails was recently nominated by USA TODAY for their 2022 10Best Readers' Choice travel awards - as a contender for Best Craft Mixer Brand. Link to vote is: https://t.co/kCD5vIPWuK.
Voters can vote once a day until Sept. 26.
This came in this morning, so it won't be in the print edition of my restaurant column, but The Crick Coffee House & Eatery in Girard is closed until Sept. 6 as the owners are on vacation. https://t.co/AjcIl38X24
Anybody in Erie, Pa-land want to chat with me about store brands: Do you buy them, why or why not? Have to started to recently due to inflation? Any worthwhile comment with a full name attached is welcome.
I'm doing a story for the Erie Times-News about the choice between store brand and name brand groceries. Do you buy store brands? What is your criteria? Do you have to have a certain brand for some dishes? DM me, Call 814-870-1885 or send email to [email protected].
Interesting piece on local retail food prices by @ETNgeisler in @GoErie today including Walmart, Wegmans, Tops, Giant Eagle and Bellows. Some surprising differences though one constant is everything has increased
@GoErieSports @ETNmmartin I sent this to my brother, who loves to fish. We laughed about the time I caught a 28-inch pike off a perch rig with a worm, which still annoys him. This guy didn't even buy the darned minnow he used. My bro was P.O.