Daniel Klotz

This Christmas season, here are some tracks you don’t want to miss. If you buy the mp3s from Amazon using these links, WXPN will get a piece of the action, so indulge aggressively. Down In Yon Forest , Bruce Cockburn Glory to God on High, Andrew Parrott Linus and Lucy, Asylum Street Spankers Old Waits [...]

The Lancaster County Community Foundation announced its latest round of grants in a press release dated Friday. Here is what I consider to be especially notable. My comments are in italics below. From the press release: “Arts and culture non-profit organizations play a significant economic development role in Lancaster County, contributing $28 million to the [...]

On November 11, 2008, as many as 275 Lancaster residents attended a day-long summit for local leaders, Lancaster2020. They identified four pressing issues for county leaders to rally around: education, economic development, streamline bureaucracy, and rethink zoning policies. The event was run by AmericaSpeaks, and participation was by invitation only. The invitations came from a [...]

Tonight at a meeting of the Creative House of Lancaster, I’m going to be participating in pecha kucha with a presentation of a poem of mine. It’s a poem that draws extensively from Anthony Burgess’ book A Clockwork Orange, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (including its choral setting of An die Freude, a poem by [...]

Three (really rustic) graphics: Together, they spell trouble for Republicans here in Lancaster County, PA, which has for decades been a dependable stronghold for the GOP. The graphics represent, in order, the outcome of the 2000, 2004, and 2008 presidential elections. Dark red indicates the Republican received better than 60% of the vote. Light red [...]