Stop. Look. Listen.

There are some new sites joining the First Friday festivities. Jonathan Bancroft Colon, now of Pittsburgh and formerly of the Bancroft Collective in Lancaster, will be showing furniture and art in “Mistletoe,” a show at American Male, 14 N. Queen Street. Reception will be Friday 5-9 p.m. (generally, First Friday hours) and will run until Jan. […]

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A snapshot or two from November’s First Friday in downtown Lancaster: Matthew Lester’s “Champ’s: A Photographic Project,” Champ’s Barber School, 54 W. King St.

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First Friday follies! Come downtown and join the fun! (Obra d’Edo, 126 N. Prince St.)

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An exhibit of paintings by Leigh St. Clair will open Friday, Sept. 19 at the Parlor Gallery, 320 Laurel St. The reception will be 5-10 p.m. and, just because it’s Music Friday,  a DJ will be entertaining 7-10 p.m.

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 The Car Music Project is a great deal more than a novelty group, despite wiper-blade bows, brake-drum drums and a certain found-in-the-junkyard air.  While the group’s music contains a fair amount of humor, from cartoony stops and starts, goofy slides and other crazy elements, it never enters Spike Jones territory. Basically, it’s a free jazz outfit that manages to […]

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The Annex 24 gallery, 24 W. Walnut St., is carving out something of a niche for itself in the world of street and outsider art. As a part of this month’s show, Urban Art & Hot Rod Whips, and in conjunction with Lancaster’s Wheels Weekend, several artists will be doing graffiti live at the gallery Saturday and […]

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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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Will Pierce’s large, dramatic oil paintings were among the most striking works on view at this spring’s Scholastic Art Awards show, and, for July’s First Friday, more of his works were on display at MasterPlan Design, 44 West King St. Pierce, whose stepfather is in the medical field, takes as his subject close-up views of […]

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The Parlor Gallery just sent me a reminder that there will be a second reception for the exhibit of Harrisburg artist Tara Chickey’s paintings Friday, July 4, 5-10 p.m. This weekend, gallery hours will be Friday, 12-10 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sunday, 12-4 p.m. The Parlor Gallery is located at 320 Laurel St.

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A few scenes from Celebrate Lancaster! The bell-ringers (including Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray) patiently await their cues as conductor Stephen Gunzenhauser rehearses the Lancaster Symphony orchestra.
(Edited on July 1, 2008 to change photographs to thumbnails.)

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