Stop. Look. Listen.

Ah, the dreaded staycation! Not that there’s any lack of anything to do around Lancaster. But if a little trip to Harrisburg is in order, you could check out the Kipona Festival or even vote for your favorite fireplug in Shipoke. For the contest, sponsored by the Art Association of Harrisburg and the Shipoke Neighborhood Association, […]

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Franklin & Marshall’s performing arts season gets off to a quick start with the Second City Touring Company’s DeFace the Nation Sept. 1-2 and pianist Andrius Zlabys Sept. 6, followed by OperaLancaster’s Puccini double bill of Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicci. Get a schedule here, or check the box office here. It’s worth noting that this fall’s Sound Horizons series […]

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Admit it. You were already singing along with ABBA during Mamma Mia!, weren’t you? Now Universal Studios is releasing a sing-along edition of the movie just in time for the Labor Day weekend, which will play locally at Penn Cinema in Lititz starting Friday, Aug. 29. (You don’t get this kind of thing for The Dark Knight!)

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Thanks to Artware Editions, you too can have afternoon tea from a Cindy Sherman tea sets while admiring your new William Wegman wallpaper.

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Franklin & Marshall College’s Phillips Museum of Art is first off the block with new exhibits opening Aug. 25: stencil-and-airbrush trompe de l’oeile paintings by Edward Evans in the Dana Gallery, digital photographs of display windows by David Spitzer in the Rothman Gallery and an exhibit of works from the college’s collection that tread the fine line […]

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The Metropolitan Opera will be broadcasting live in HD again this season, and here are the details. The opening gala, featuring Renée Fleming, is Monday, Sept. 22. The season includes the premiere of John Adam’s Doctor Atomic and new productions of Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust, Massenet’s Thaïs, Puccini’s La Rondine and Bellini’s La Sonnambula. Tickets are on sale […]

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The cultural events just keep on coming: Here’s Elizabethtown College’s 2008-2009 cultural events calendar and the upcoming Gretna Music season, which starts out with the vocal ensemble Tapestry performing music by Hildegard of Bingen, the 11th century abbess, composer, philosopher, poet and mystic.

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A few scenes from the Mount Gretna Outdoor Art Show, held Aug. 16-17 …
William Colburn of Fairhope, Ala. created an alternative and attention-getting world of giant metal flowers and whimsical animals (including this guard dog who really means it)among the trees.
Edward Kidera of Woodbine, Md. turns old oxygen, nitrogen and other sorts of tanks into sonorous […]

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The Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art in Millersburg will present “Ned Smith:Hidden Stories,” an exhibit of works by the center’s namesake, opening Saturday, Aug. 16 and running until Feb. 21. Ned Smith, who was born in Millersburg in 1919 and died in 1985, was an artist, writer and naturalist whose work appeared in […]

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This month’s Music Friday (Aug. 15) is expanding from Queen Street to Gallery Row and beyond. Check out the list of performers here. 

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