Stop. Look. Listen.

Or maybe we should call it “Doggleworks”. The Kennel Club of Philadelphia will be holding its 2008 dog shows at the Reading Expo Center Nov. 22-23, and the Goggleworks Center for the Arts joins in the fun with ”Paws for Art: A Canine Collection.” Your dog is invited, too! Read more here. 

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That curious sound you hear: random bleats, tweets, twangs and thumps, fragments of melody and the hum of strings, coalescing around the plangent “A” from the oboe. Here, there and all around, musicians are hauling their black clothes out of the closet as symphony orchestras get ready for the upcoming season. Here’s a look at some […]

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Kelly McGillis (you remember her!) will be teaching an eight-session acting workshop at Reading’s Community School of Music and the Arts starting Wednesday, June 18. Classes will run from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and will be held at Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, 4th and Windsor sts., Reading. The class is limited to 20. Cost is $395 plus $30 registration fee. […]

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Fiber artist Debi Hartranft got her start in traditional quilting, but her works, now on display at the Living Light Gallery, are anything but traditional. Both her wall quilts and three-dimensional works combine quilting, needlefelting, and appliqué, using wool, fabric and recycled fibers, into dramatic, surprising forms. “I see something and I just have to […]

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I stopped by the Isadore Gallery, 228 N. Prince St., during Artists’ Saturday March 29 to check out the Echo Valley Art Group show. It’s a gallery walk in itself. I had a chance to talk to two of the artists in the show, Carol Toner Shane and Reed Dixon. In the photo here, you […]

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