Stop. Look. Listen.

Bring on the fireworks! Honking horns heralded the closing of two blocks of Queen Street in downtown Lancaster at 9 a.m. At 12 noon, stands were still setting up and lingering clouds were still spitting out the occasional raindrop, but by 1 p.m. Celebrate Lancaster! was definitely under way, as you can see here. Here’s more information on […]

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Thanks to the Lancaster Arts Hotel Gallery and Elizabethtown’s Lynden Gallery, art watchers got a double dose of Lou Schellenberg’s work this month, and there’s a little time left to take it in. The city gallery gets views of Nova Scotia, where Schellenberg, an associate professor of art at Elizabethtown College, spends her summers, while […]

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The term “chamber music” sounds far too tame to describe the outstanding music-making at Friday evening’s Next Generation Festival concert at its new home of Millersville University. Pianist and festival artistic director Awadagin Pratt brought together a fine group of string players to perform Beethoven’s Piano Quartet Op. 16, Cesar Franck’s Violin Sonata and Brahms’ Piano […]

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Miss the old drive-in? The Leola Freeze and Frizz, 2250 New Holland Pike, will be offering family films on Friday nights this summer. Movies start at 8:30 p.m. or dusk. Friday’s film will be “Ice Age: The Meltdown.” People may bring lawn chairs and blankets (but no food) for the outdoor event.

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Michigan photographer Amy Herman won Best of Show for “Tree & Field” (right) in the Lancaster County Art Association’s 2007 Juried Exhibition, which opened June 10 and runs until July 21. For a list of winners and more images, click here.
As long as you’re out in Strasburg, why not take a class?

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Here’s the lineup for the 2007 Brown Bag music series put on by the Greater Lancaster Federation of Musicians. All concerts run from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and take place in the Fulton Bank quadrant of Penn Square, Lancaster.
Friday, June 29: March Masters (marches and patriotic music)
Friday, July 6: Dave Wilson Quartet (contemporary jazz)
Saturday, July […]

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A visit with the author (and county native).
A review of “The Shadow Catcher.

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Keep track of the days, the hours, the minutes here. Jonathan Groff, nominated for a best actor Tony award for his role as Melchior in Spring Awakening, appears in a brief clip here (click on Meet the Nominees, part 3). More: a review and another brief feature.

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 A big turnout for First Friday, and as usual, there was too much to take in all in one evening. Here’s a photo of photos: The Pennsylvania College of Art and Design’s annual Photographic Visions Exhibition. Fred Albright took first place; some of his works are visible to the right in this photo.

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