Entries from April 2008

Route 30, ready for its close-up

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Route 66, move over: the indie comedy Route 30 premiers in September in Gettysburg.

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Tags: film · Uncategorized

Ride the Crazy Bus to Buchanan Park

April 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Yep, Community Days are back at Buchanan Park, at the corner of Race and Buchanan avenues, starting 5 p.m. Wednesday. Rides, food, and fun for all; more information here. Time for the first funnel cake of the season!

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Tags: community events · festivals · Uncategorized

Wheatland Chorale visits “Windsor Forest”

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments

In Windsor Forest, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ 1929 set of five choral pieces, was not familiar to Rob Upton, artistic director of the Wheatland Chorale, when two members of the chorale introduced him to the work. His reaction? “Where has this been all my life?” That’s what Upton told the audience at the April 27 Wheatland […]

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Tags: choral · review · music · Uncategorized

The Sunday afternoon choral dilemma

April 26th, 2008 · No Comments

What to do? The Lancaster Chamber Singers will be performing Sunday at 3 p.m. at Leacock Presbyterian Church, 3181 Lincoln Highway East (Rt. 30), Paradise, while the Wheatland Chorale will be performing Sunday at 4 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 140 East Orange St., Lancaster. The Chamber Singers will be repeating the program, featuring Haydn’s St. Nicholas Mass and […]

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Scenes from PCA&D

April 26th, 2008 · No Comments

The Pennsylvania College of Art & Design was loaded with people Saturday afternoon for the annual Senior Show. The regular gallery space was given over to representative works from each graduating senior (which will be on display until May 23), and temporary galleries had been set up throughout the school to accomodate a small show […]

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Get in the American Spirit

April 25th, 2008 · No Comments

All suited up for the American Spirit Parade Saturday? Actually, this dog was at the American Whippet Club show in Eugene, Ore. April 22. (Associated Press Photo). More information on the parade and the YWCA’s Race Against Racism here.

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Tags: Downtown Lancaster · Uncategorized

The classes of ‘08 hang it up

April 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

As graduation nears for area colleges, they’re also giving over gallery space to students. In some cases the exhibits don’t run for very long, so hurry!
The Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, 204 N. Prince St., will display a selected work from each graduating senior in its main gallery until May 23. In addition, the entire school will […]

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Tags: PCA&D · Elizabethtown College · art · Franklin & Marshall · Millersville University · Uncategorized

Missing “Satyagraha”

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

It was a pity that last Saturday’s Metropolitan Opera production of Philip Glass’s Satyagraha was not one of the ones slated for HD broadcast. I caught some (not all) on the Saturday afternoon broadcast on WITF, but wished I could actually see the staging, which by all accounts is spectacular. Here are some images from […]

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“Light and Shadow, Line and Form”

April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

These striking white-on-white wall sculptures by Marion Tippetts were on display at Tippetts/Weaver Architects, 137 N. Duke St., along with black-and-white photographs by Toby Richards in a show called “Interplay of Light and Shadow, Line and Form” during the Spring ArtWalk.
Tippetts, a graduate of Penn and the Rhode Island School of design, worked for many years […]

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Tags: ArtWalk · Downtown Lancaster · art · photography · Uncategorized

A Spring ArtWalk in your step

April 21st, 2008 · No Comments

The Lancaster Museum of Art’s “Show Up and Show Show,” held in conjunction with ArtWalk at the museum’s 215 N. Queen St. site, always draws a wide range of participants and there’s always something surprising, something a little offbeat, creations from young and old, amateur and professional in all kinds of media: encaustic, watercolor, screenprint, woodburning and old-fashioned “3D” […]

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Tags: Downtown Lancaster · museums and attractions · art · Uncategorized