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Get a jump on the Christmas concert rush with the Lancaster Oratorio Society, which will be performing Antonio Vivaldi’s familiar Gloria 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 18 at First Presbyterian Church, 140 E. Orange St., Lancaster, Pa. “It’s a standard piece for around this time of year,” says director Timothy Sidebotham, who scheduled the concert a […]

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So you didn’t light up a cigarette yesterday for the Great American Smokeout, and now you’re wondering what not to do next? Check out Wednesday, Nov. 21 and Friday, Nov. 23.
There are some positives: Nov. 23 is also You’re Welcomegiving Day (here’s an explanation), and Nov. 21 is World Hello Day.  And the rest of the […]

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Beowulf opens this weekend, and it’s a whole ‘nother Grendel’s mother! But what’s with the feet?
The real story is here. (Don’t say I didn’t warn you.) OK, that wasn’t fair — here’s some help.

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Interested in buying some art and supporting a cause? An art auction will be held to benefit Bridge Connections, an organization that links people who want to serve with grassroots organizations around the world.  The auction will be held 6:30-8:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, at the Infantree gallery at 21 N. Prince St. in downtown Lancaster, on […]

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For a November concert, conductor Stephen Gunzenhauser and the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra put on a pretty lighthearted show Nov. 9-11. Even “For the Fallen,” Andrew Lowe Watson’s all-string tribute “to all who have lost their lives in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” tempered the terror with luminously somber tenderness: melodies and harmonies that rose […]

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