Stop. Look. Listen.

Ingmar Bergman, 1918-2007.
Michelangelo Antonioni, 1912-2007.
Roger Ebert on Bergman.
Shown here are Max von Sydow in a scene from Ingmar Bergman’s “The Virgin Spring,” top; Ingmar Bergman (right) and Sven Nykvist filming “Through a Glass, Darkly” on the Swedish island of Faro in 1960, left; Michelangelo Antonioni in an undated photo in Cannes, France (right). Associated Press photos.

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It was too bad that Old School Freight Train’s Sunday night concert in Long’s Park was brought to a screeching halt by a thunderstorm. The Charlottesville, Va., band did its best by avoiding songs mentioning rain, but nothing could halt the storm’s relentless onset. OSFT did get a chance to perform a few selections from […]

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Ducks at sea.

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A concert is a little different at the Mount Gretna Playhouse. The open sides and small size of the playhouse allows passers-by a pretty good view of what’s going on, while the playhouse’s site, in the middle of a residential area, allows plenty of traffic — very quiet, well-behaved traffic.
From my position in the standing-room-only area at […]

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One of the cool things about umbrella events like “Buy Fresh, Buy Local” week is the under-the-radar movies that get a rare local airing. Richard Linklater’s “Fast Food Nation” is one such movie: Along with the short “Store Wars,” the film will be shown Friday at 7 p.m. at the Other Room Theatre, 715 N. Pine St. […]

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WXPN, the public radio station of the University of Pennsylvania, will soon be broadcasting in the Harrisburg-Lebanon-Lancaster-York area. (Or “HLLY” … Do people in Philly really call this area ”Hilly?”) See the station’s press release here, and a video announcement (with a slightly blurry map) here. The station has acquired WZXM 88.7, a Middletown radio station, and […]

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As downtown strollers sought rest on benches and walls and children played in the fountain, Lancaster’s own capoeiristas, Capuraginga, demonstrated the Brazilian martial arts-dance-music fusion at Binns Park Friday. 

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New galleries, new faces, new shows. Lancaster’s First Friday drew a big crowd last night, and, as always, there was far more than one person could take in on a single evening, and I’ll have more to write on Monday.
I started out a little off the beaten path, over at the Keystone Art & Culture […]

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