
Arts & Entertainment
‘It’s fun’: Bringing tennis, and a sport for them, to Camden’s girls
A program started under the auspices of the Centerville Simbas teaches girls as young as 5 how to wield a racket and hit a volley.
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Emma Raducanu wins U.S. Open women’s title
In just her second Grand Slam tournament, Raducanu ended the tournament as the first player since Serena Williams in 2014 to not drop a set in the U.S. Open.
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Black woman photographer captures 9/11 from ‘Blocks Away’
Photographer Velvet McNeil describes being at ground zero to document the day the twin towers fell.
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Listen 5:54Ubuntu is more than a name for Steven CW Taylor’s spot — it’s an ethos.
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Soaring above an alley, ContraFuerte surprises and delights
Struggling to keep both themselves and a bridge upright, Miguel Horn’s ContraFuerte is open for your interpretation.
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Pew Center grants $10.2 million for digital and diversity efforts
The annual Pew grants will distribute money toward arts institutions’ digital and diversity efforts.
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Philadelphia’s African American Museum has a new leader
Dr. Ashley Jordan, of Cincinnati, has been announced as the new leader of the AAMP.
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Fringe Festival turns 25, spawns its own mini-festival
Cannonball is a new artist-produced festival-within-the-festival, a critical sign of growth for the Philly Fringe.
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Listen 1:42The crowds, and the sun, come out for Made in America’s return to the Parkway
The two-day festival — a Labor Day weekend fixture in Philadelphia since Jay-Z started it in 2012 — opened at noon, with COVID rules.
4 years ago
Tens of thousands still plan to descend on the Parkway for the festival, where they’ll have to show vax proof or a negative test to get in.
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Made in America’s show will go on this weekend, despite severe flooding
The rain-heavy remnants of Hurricane Ida caused severe flooding of the nearby Schuylkill River, but will not affect the two-day music festival.
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Made in America has a mask mandate, but ticket holders wonder if it’s really enforceable
Tens of thousands are descending on the Parkway for the festival, where you have to show vax proof or a negative test to get in.
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Swimming while Black: A new exhibit explores Black resilience at the pool
An exhibition inside the Fairmount Waterworks’ dilapidated underground pool explores the history of segregated swimming.
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Black Phish fans tell the good, the bad, and the ugly in new podcast
Blackberry Jams will dissect the jam band experience for Black fans, in the context of Black Liberation.
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