
Arts & Entertainment
Sept. 8 - Sept. 11: The Fringe Fest begins in Philadelphia, Ringo Starr comes to the Met, The Disco Biscuits are in Delaware, and Wu-Tang and Nas hit the stage in New Jersey.
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Listen 4:49Basketball icon Sue Bird plays her last game after two legendary decades in the WNBA
She retires as the winningest WNBA player of all time.
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Tiafoe becomes first American man to reach the U.S. Open semifinals since 2006
The 24-year-old Tiafoe was backed by a boisterous partisan crowd in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
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Rocky the Musical is getting its Philly debut, but first, cheesesteaks
The iconic Philly story premiered on Broadway in 2014 for six months, then all but disappeared. It opens at Walnut Street Theatre in October.
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New Calder museum plans revealed for the Parkway
The Calder Gardens will be built along the Parkway in Philadelphia in 2023, pairing Alexander Calder’s famous mobiles with natural landscaping.
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Ruby Bridges, desegregation trailblazer, writes kid’s book
“I Am Ruby Bridges” goes on sale Tuesday. It’s aimed at readers as young as 4 at a time when teaching the history of race in America has never been more difficult.
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CIA photos from U-2 spy planes of the 1950s have new life in archeology at Penn Museum
The Penn Museum is showing declassified images from 13 miles in the air, giving archeologists new tools to study ancient cities.
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Barack Obama wins Emmy for narrating national parks series
The former president won the best narrator award at Saturday's Creative Arts Emmys for his work on the Netflix documentary series, “Our Great National Parks.”
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Thousands pack Ben Franklin Parkway to celebrate the end of summer at Made in America
Performers included Philadelphia natives Jazmine Sullivan and Lil Uzi Vert, as well as headliners Tyler, the Creator and Bad Bunny.
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Listen 1:10Performance ‘hubs’ keep Philly Fringe growing
Collectively produced artists keep costs low and creativity high.
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Goodnight Moon has comforted kids at bedtime for 75 years
The book has lulled children around the world to sleep with its dreamy ritual of bidding "goodnight" to everything in the "great green room."
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College Football Playoff to expand to 12 teams by ’26 season
A 12-team, 11-game postseason system to crown a champion could be worth as much as $2 billion in media rights to the conferences that play major college football.
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Jane Fonda says she has cancer and is undergoing treatment
"I've been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and have started chemo treatments," the actress, activist, and former fitness guru told her Instagram followers on Friday.
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An unauthorized Banksy retrospective opens in Germantown
“BanksyLand” has about 50 original pieces by the secretive and controversial street artist. Banksy has neither endorsed nor condemned the show.
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A guide to all the Philly artists performing at Made in America this year
The Labor Day weekend music festival flaunts a lot of local talent.
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