Give yourself a couple of days to digest your Thanksgiving feast, and then stave off the work week after a four day holiday by treating yourself to El Guincho at the Barbary on Sunday evening. The Spanish artist is a cross between an unusually eclectic DJ and general party provocateur. It took a long time for [...]

If you can brave the cold there’s plenty to do before the holiday season descends in full force immediately after Thanksgiving (I think Christmas technically starts the second you put down your fork after your Thanksgiving feast).
Tonight is the end of Chile week here in the city. Claudia Acuña, a jazz singer from the South [...]

Tonight, residents of the Greater Philadelphia region have a unique chance to hear from three women from the city of Jerusalem who have been traveling the U.S. to talk about how they are coping with the ongoing conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis.  The women, an Israeli Jew, a Palestinian Christian and a Palestinian Muslim.  [...]

A growing bilingual author series in North Philadelphia is getting its biggest name in its over thirty year history this Friday evening. Taller Puertorriqueño in North Philadelphia will be host to Dominican-born and central New Jersey-raised Junot Díaz, fresh off winning the Pulitzer Prize earlier this year for his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life [...]

WHYY’s Arts and Culture reporter, Alex Schmidt, got a preview of a traveling exhibition that examines the African presence in Mexico. Hosted by the African American Museum at 7th and Arch - right around the corner, I should go check it out - the exhibition opens tomorrow.
You can listen to Alex’s piece here.
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