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Camp Hill High School cleans up at Apollo Awards at Hershey Theatre
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on May 20, 2012, 10:27PM
The fourth annual awards program for high school theater productions saw nine awards in 14 categories go to Camp Hill. Full story »
Odin Rathnam of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra will step down after 21 years leading string section
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on May 20, 2012, 7:20PM
“It’s the perfect time for me,” Rathnam said Sunday afternoon at The Forum in downtown Harrisburg after the HSO completed its final Masterworks concert of the season, a program that ended with Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.” Full story »
Showhouse project on Yellow Breeches benefits Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on May 20, 2012, 7:58AM
The long and winding road leads to a charming 18th century stone house along a lazy stretch of the Yellow Breeches, a property that is newly landscaped and filled with the stuff that beautiful homes are made of. Seventeen interior designers and 14 landscape experts have been hard at work for many weeks transforming the two-story home’s grounds and... Full story »
Import and Kit Nationals let you tour German, British, Swedish, Italian cars without leaving Carlisle
Posted on Go! With The Patriot-News on May 18, 2012, 11:15AM
The Import and Kit Nationals at the Carlisle Fairgrounds lets you travel around the world of cars in one weekend. Full story »
Three central Pennsylvania musical icons celebrate birthdays this month
Posted on Go! With The Patriot-News on May 14, 2012, 3:22PM
Market Square Concerts and Susquehanna Chorale are marking their 30th anniversaries with concerts this month, as is the grandmother of local music organizations, the 130-year-old Wednesday Club Full story »
Arts education innovator to speak at IUP commencement
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on May 11, 2012, 12:44PM
Clyde McGeary, a Camp Hill resident who helped to create the Governor’s School for the Arts and the Governor’s Schools of Excellence during his tenure with the Pennsylvania Department of Education, will provide the keynote address Saturday during commencement exercises at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. McGeary, who served as chief of the education department’s Division of Arts and Sciences... Full story »
Bands, solo artists book summer dates at central Pennsylvania venues
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on May 06, 2012, 8:43PM
From Gettysburg to Harrisburg, Hershey to Lancaster, the summer season has a full playlist. Full story »
WHP-TV and sister station WLYH-TV convert newscasts to HD
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on April 30, 2012, 8:48AM
The stations are the last of the Harrisburg area over-the-air stations to make the switch to HD for local newscasts. Full story »
Hershey Theatre announces Apollo Award nominations for high school musicals
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on April 25, 2012, 4:17PM
Susquehanna Twp. High School received 8 nods for its production of 'Hairspray' Full story »
Carlisle auto shows open 2012 season with collector car swap meet
Posted on Go! With The Patriot-News on April 19, 2012, 10:01AM
The spring show at Carlisle Fairgrounds will open the 2012 Carlisle Events series and is expected draw thousands of collector car buffs in search of parts for their vehicles. Full story »
Concert review: Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra shines through Richard Strauss' imaginative tour de force
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on April 15, 2012, 12:36AM
Pieces from Aram Khachaturian, Aaron Copland and Richard Strauss center on larger-than-life characters. Full story »
Rick Santorum's departure from GOP primary hurts TV, radio stations
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on April 13, 2012, 9:27PM
Spending on political ads has dropped considerably, though candidates for other offices and PACs are still advertising. Full story »
Whitaker Center exhibit will feature da Vinci's amazing machines
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on April 13, 2012, 3:32PM
The brilliance of Leonardo da Vinci will be on display this summer at Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts in downtown Harrisburg. The 5,000-square-foot exhibit, “Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion,” will feature 40 life-sized interactive models of his farsighted inventions, including a helicopter, a glider, an armored tank, a printing press and a bicycle. These precursors of... Full story »
The sinking of the RMS Titanic: A course of history
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on April 12, 2012, 6:00AM
A century after the disaster at sea, the accounts of death, survival and near misses continue to fascinate us. The Stories of two midstaters reveal not only what happened, but what might have been. Full story »
Capital Area School for the Arts will seek charter school status in Harrisburg
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on April 06, 2012, 3:11PM
Under the charter school law, CASA would be guaranteed financial aid through the state Department of Education. It would no longer need to rely on voluntary tuition funding from school districts. Full story »
The Mantis Collective's closing deals blow to Harrisburg's arts renaissance
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on April 04, 2012, 8:02PM
The Mantis Collective will be the fourth city art gallery to close within 15 months. Full story »
Nick Ruggieri's paintings of historic Pennsylvania sites displayed in Governor's Residence
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on April 04, 2012, 12:23AM
Until recently, the 16 paintings hung in the former offices of The Patriot-News, where Ruggieri served as art director from 1941 to 1980. Full story »
Harrisburg artist's paintings to be displayed at Governor's Residence
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on April 02, 2012, 2:50PM
Harrisburg painter and longtime Patriot-News art director Nick Ruggieri gave a lot of one-man shows when he was alive, but his latest exhibit represents a definite move uptown — all the way to the Governor’s Residence. A selection of 15 paintings by the late Ruggieri, personally selected by First Lady Susan Corbett, will go on display at the governor’s... Full story »
Fox 43 signal removed from DirecTV lineup in dispute over fees
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on April 01, 2012, 9:35AM
WPMT-TV Fox 43 has been removed from the lineup for DirecTV subscribers in central Pennsylvania, a casualty of a financial dispute between the satellite company and Tribune Company, which owns the York-based television station. DirecTV stopped carrying the Fox 43 signal at midnight Saturday, when a retransmission consent agreement between the two parties expired. Unless the signal is restored,... Full story »
DirecTV subscribers might lose access to Fox 43
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on March 30, 2012, 10:16PM
An agreement between the satellite TV company and Tribune expires at midnight Saturday. Full story »
Central Pennsylvania arts groups engage in a new kind of business: Friend-raising
Posted on Life in Central Pennsylvania by The Patriot-News on March 25, 2012, 11:35AM
Groups are throwing open the curtain and inviting patrons to interact with its stars in new and often very personal ways. Full story »
Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra director Stuart Malina, Harrisburg Area Community College series to receive Theatre Harrisburg awards
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on March 24, 2012, 10:45PM
The awards will be given out April 29 during a ceremony at Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, 222 Market St., followed by a gala at nearby Strawberry Square. Full story »
'Carnival of the Animals' show to return to Whitaker Center
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on March 24, 2012, 7:45PM
More than 2,000 people attended four performances of 'Carnival,' a colorful ballet for children, in October in Harrisburg Full story »
Report by Harrisburg-based nonprofit calls for more focus on the arts
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on March 14, 2012, 10:59PM
Report calls for expanding the role for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, which provides grants and other assistance to arts groups statewide. The report recommends hiring a full-time arts education assessor at the state Department of Education. Full story »
Area musician Bill Ingraham to be honored with tribute concert
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on March 08, 2012, 6:57PM
The longtime piano player has been battling non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Full story »
Embattled Rush Limbaugh will stay on the airwaves in central Pennsylvania
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on March 06, 2012, 3:25PM
Local radio stations that carry Rush Limbaugh’s popular radio show have no plans to drop the show in the wake of controversial remarks made last week. Full story »
Harrisburg's National Civil War Museum hires new leader
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on March 05, 2012, 3:00PM
A Civil War historian and author from Adams County will take over the reins as chief executive officer at Harrisburg’s National Civil War Museum. Museum officials announced today that Wayne Motts, an Ohio native who has been executive director of the Adams County Historical Society in Gettysburg for the past eight years, will replace former museum CEO Dave Patterson,... Full story »
Downtown Harrisburg Squonk shows to serve taste of the arts
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on March 04, 2012, 11:54PM
Philip Horn envisions a day when state workers and the public can regularly use part of their lunch hour to get a free arts experience in downtown Harrisburg. “I see it as an opportunity for arts groups to get in front of potential patrons, and for tens of thousands of state workers to see what’s available to them in the... Full story »
Concert review: Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra sparkles with rendition of Mozart's final symphony
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on March 04, 2012, 1:04AM
Saturday night’s concert got off to a promising start with Faure’s elegant and understated suite, drawn from incidental music created in 1898 for the first English-language production of Maurice Maeterlinck’s play “Pelleas et Melisande.” Full story »
Death of ex-Monkee Davy Jones mourned by central Pennsylvania fans
Posted on Breaking Midstate News with The Patriot-News on March 01, 2012, 1:00AM
Although Jones died in Florida, where he spent his winters, for several years he also lived half of each year in central Pennsylvania, on a horse farm he owned near Beavertown in Snyder County. Full story »
