Square Truths: Wealth, class and the art of the persona.
“The Square is a sanctuary of trust and caring. Within it we all share equal rights and obligations.” So says… Read More
Greater Harrisburg's Community Magazine
Culture
Music Mania: Warm up and get out.
As the winter winds die down, it’s time to break free from your hibernation and get the energy flowing again.… Read More
Old World Notes: Decades pass by joyously for Harrisburg’s premier klezmer band.
It was an unplanned band, composed of musicians who just liked to play together. It didn’t even have a name… Read More
Senior Class Photos: Latino seniors create art, learn a new skill, at LHACC.
Eight students sat holding cameras. They first learned the basics: the camera parts, how to focus, how to zoom. They… Read More
Student Scribes: “Night Witches”
They call me a night witch, but I am not one. I haunt their dreams as I do the raven… Read More
Student Scribes: “Naked”
I thought when my shirt came off my stomach would be gone, That it had moved to my chest. It… Read More
New Books Cometh: How about a good read in 2018?
We book-lovers are an expectant lot, eagerly anticipating each year what the publishing gods will send our way. Fortunately, our… Read More
“Our Town”: Gamut offers freshness, depth, humor to oft-told tale.
In Harrisburg, people seem to understand the concept of “hometown.” Everybody seems to know everybody, what they do for a… Read More
Something Eternal: “Our Town”–more than just a slice-of-life at Gamut Theatre.
Both the director, Thomas Weaver, and lead actor, David Zayas, separately describe Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, “Our Town,” as… Read More
Telling Our Stories: This month, a new African-American theater company stages its first play.
In the Ghanaian Twi language, the word sankofa means to “reach back to move forward.” The word encapsulates well the… Read More