Published November 21, 2009, 12:02 AM EST

by JANE HOLAHAN

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - Teen girls everywhere are lining up to see the latest "Twilight" movie, "New Moon."It's got plenty of teen angst, romance with vampires and werewolves and other Hollywood horrors that our brave teenage heroine, Bella Swan, has to face."New Moon" is a classic Hollywo...

Published November 21, 2009, 12:01 AM EST

by CONNER GOOD, 16, Freestyle

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. - MOVIE REVIEWIf there is one way to advise you on how to handle "2012," it is this: for the best experience of the movie, go in, watch the first hour and a half, then leave the theater quietly. Hang out in the lobby and catch one of the stragglers exiting the theater later. Ask them how it ...

Published November 20, 2009, 6:30 PM EST

by STAFF

LANCASTER - The Friends of Milanof-Schock Library are hosting a Holiday Book and Gift Sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 21,  at the Mount Joy library, 184 Anderson Ferry Road.There will be free gift wrapping, punch and cookies.......

Published November 20, 2009, 4:25 PM EST

by JON FERGUSON

LANCASTER - It's hard to feel sorry for Chris Botti.After all, the trumpet player has movie star-handsome looks, hangs out with cool people like Sting, Yo-Yo Ma and Andrea Bocelli (all of whom have played on his albums) and jets around the world, playing in front of adoring fans at clubs, theaters and halls...

Published November 19, 2009, 5:45 PM EST

by JANE HOLAHAN

LANCASTER - Pete Michaels is coming to Stitches Comedy Club this weekend, but he won't be alone.He'll be joined by his motley crew of dummies, including the sassy black kid Woody D; Kremlin, the alien who's come to earth in search of fun; senior citizens Papa and Mr. Johnson, both of whom are enchan...

Published November 19, 2009, 5:37 PM EST

by JACK ROBERTS & ALEJANDRO RIOS

LANCASTER - Now it's time to rock and roll with Rios and Roberts, the two guys who keep you up to date on the local music scene.Looking for a place to jam on Wednesday nights? Then you obviously haven't been looking too hard.Yorgo's recently kicked off an open mic-jam night on Wednesdays, and it'...

Published November 19, 2009, 5:31 PM EST

by JON FERGUSON

LANCASTER - Sean Scolnick remembers recording some of the first songs he ever wrote in the bathroom of his mother's house in Langhorne.The equipment wasn't fancy, just a cheap cassette recorder, but the act of making music thrilled Scolnick. It helped him tend an itch that needed scratching."From a...

Published November 19, 2009, 5:09 PM EST

by KATHLEEN DAMINGER

LANCASTER - It's been well over half a century since Naomi Kennel Yoder graduated from Lancaster Mennonite High School, but the passage of time didn't stop her from answering her alma mater's call for artists earlier this year.And because she did, the works of the 87-year-old former art teacher will...

Published November 19, 2009, 4:58 PM EST

by JANE HOLAHAN

LANCASTER - This time of the year, we notice the night more.It comes earlier, stays longer, seems to wrap itself around us more deeply as the leaves and temperatures fall.We may mourn the loss of those long summer days, but we adjust, we get used to the dark and its depths.For painter Robert Heilman, it's o...

Published November 19, 2009, 4:50 PM EST

by JANE HOLAHAN

LANCASTER - Sometimes, Rob Evans can become obsessive about his paintings.He'll become saturated with ideas, thinking about them sometimes for years before he begins working on them.He'll lose track of time as he paints late into the night.He'll do battle, wrestling with ideas and the physical manif...