If you flip through a copy of The New Yorker at a newsstand, you might look at the cartoons first to see if any of them are winners.The magazine's editors realize this and have made sure over the years to include the best cartoonists around. One of these was William Steig (1907-2003), ...

Artists Carol Galligan and Milt Friedly are the ultimate recyclers.They see only opportunity in what has been discarded, elevating what has been deemed ugly or no longer useful into works that are at once arresting and astonishing.Their new show at Keystone Art & Culture Center, 420 Pearl St., r...

 
When Haitian artist Benson Myrtil moved here 10 years ago, he had to restart his creative career from scratch.He had made his living as a painter in Haiti. He had a studio in which to work, art students to teach and galleries in which to exhibit and sell his creations.Americans and oth...

 
You can see "Beauty and the Beast" on the big screen, where the beloved 1991 Disney animated feature has been re-released in 3-D to a whole new generation of moviegoers.Or you can see Belle, the fearsome but ultimately sensitive Beast and the swaggering Gaston portrayed live by a whole...

 
Lancaster will have a unique opportunity to hear about Andrew Wyeth and the stories behind his paintings when his granddaughter, Victoria Wyeth, delivers a presentation titled "Lessons I Learned at My Grandfather's Knee" on Friday, Jan. 20, at the Ware Center, Millersville University L...

Sherlock Holmes may have called it, "the case of the missing write-ins."Two Earl Township residents cast write-in votes at two separate polling places in last November's election. But when they later checked the results for their precincts, they were surprised to find that no write-in votes had been...

Just before sunrise Christmas Eve, a mountain of empty cardboard boxes waited just outside Clipper Magazine Stadium.At 7 a.m., an army of volunteers began filling the boxes one by one. A 14-pound turkey went in first, followed by all the meal trimmings.On the other side of the stadium gates, hundred...

Although he's retired, Ted Dzubinski has not slowed down one bit.Dzubinski, 66, keeps himself active in many ways, but he finds tremendous satisfaction in volunteering. For the past 15 years, he has helped to organize and execute the annual charitable Christmas dinner at St. Anne's Catholic Church i...

 
Dr. Barry Clippinger only has to glance in one of Columbia School District's cafeterias for evidence that more children are falling into poverty."We're seeing hungry kids," said Clippinger, the district superintendent.So are quite a few other school officials — here and across th...

 
Local artists and craftspeople want First Friday patrons to consider giving the gift of art this holiday season.To that end, several local galleries and organizations are offering functional crafts, small pieces of art, unframed works and decorative holiday pieces at moderate prices &m...

 
Could the relocation of the Lititz Pike bridge over the Amtrak tracks solve the McGovern Avenue lane-changing problems mentioned here two weeks ago?That possibility was raised by two emailers who asked for an update on the bridge project's status. Another emailer wanted to know if plan...

 
The Kalargyros Gallery might be small, but there's a lot going on under its roof.Thirteen local artists rotate their works through the space at 112 1/2 W. Orange St., including gallery owner Despina Kalargyros, whose blown and sculptured glass adds whimsical charm and flashes of color...

Shoe boxes are making a difference around the world.They have become an act of kindness, and for disadvantaged children, a shoe box filled with small, simple gifts means the world."One day I wish I could give the box to a kid with my own hands," 8-year-old Paris Black said.Paris was at the Akron Chu...

 
Two artists. One roof. A multitude of perspectives.Twenty works by artist and illustrator Raul Colon and seven portraits by painter Amy Sherald currently share space in the main gallery of Pennsylvania College of Art & Design on North Prince Street.The exhibit is part of the colleg...

The family of Danielle Wilson, of Spring Grove, releases green balloons at the Sweet Pea Project's second annual Remembrance Gathering in Long's Park, Saturday. The organization, which helps people who are dealing with stillbirth and infant death, was created by Stephanie Cole after the loss of her ...

About one in seven Lancaster County residents age 64 and under was without health insurance in 2009, according to Census Bureau data released last week.The Small Area Health Insurance Estimates report revealed that 13.9 percent of the county's population in that demographic lacked health coverage, u...

At the beginning of the summer, DAS Inc. handed control over some of its charitable giving to its employees.Literally.DAS gave each employee a crisp, new $50 bill to use for a charitable purpose.They were directed to pool their cash and creativity to generate the maximum impact possible.And the empl...

 
Although modern artists William and Marguerite Zorach died back in the 1960s, some Franklin & Marshall College students have come to feel very close to them.Those students are members of a curatorial practices class taught by F&M art history professor Linda Aleci. They're putti...

At the beginning of the summer, DAS Inc. handed control over some of its charitable giving to its employees.Literally.DAS gave each employee a crisp, new $50 bill to use for a charitable purpose.They were directed to pool their cash and creativity to generate the maximum impact possible.And the empl...

 
Lancaster ArtWalk is usually all about the galleries. This month, it will also be about the garage.The West Walnut Street car-storage warehouse space in question, a cavernous garage filled with chunky old wooden beams and exposed brick walls, will be lit up, decorated and transformed i...