Stop. Look. Listen.

What stands out about the 28th annual Pennsylvania Watercolor Society International Exhibition, at the Lancaster Museum of Art through Oct. 28, is its humanity. There are landscapes and flowers and abstracts, cityscapes, plenty of boats and some unclassifiable scenes (Don Weaver’s “Case Review/George,” for example”), but the show is dominated by images of human beings […]

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 The Lancaster Liederkranz will be holding its annual Oktoberfest celebration Friday through Sunday at the Liederkranz Pavilion, 722 Chiques Road, Salunga. And, actually in Oktober, Philadelphia will be observing German-American Day, Oct. 6, with a three-day celebration. See more information here.

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The Lancaster Symphony Orchestra is beginning to think about a bigger home. Read more here.

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 Any event that features a smartly-attired man playing Bach on a rack of automobile horns is worth stopping for. This person (who I could not get a picture of, unfortunately), the musician shown to the left and many others gathered on the 3oo block of Queen Street for the second installment of the Street Performers […]

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The last of the detainees from the McCormick’s Island party have been freed. Read more here.

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By Kathy Matheson, Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA  — The Barnes Foundation has acquired a downtown site for its world-renowned art collection, paving the way for its planned move from the suburbs to a prominent museum area in the city.Mayor John F. Street signed legislation that authorizes the city to enter into a long-term lease with the […]

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Luciano Pavarotti, 1935-2007. 
Luciano Pavarotti, playing Nemorino, laughs during dress rehearsal for Act II of “L’Elisir d’Amore,” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, in this Nov. 19, 1998, Associated Press file photo.

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According to this report in the York Dispatch, it’s going to be five to eight weeks before WXPN can begin broadcasting on 88.7 FM. Patience, World Cafe fans. (There’s always the web, but I want to listen in my car!)

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More on the McCormick’s Island party fatality, from Pennlive.

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An update on the Susquehanna island party bust (thanks to Pennlive).

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