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Exterior view of St. Michael's Hall
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Woodmere Museum gets its largest gift ever to renovate a mansion

With a $10 million gift from the Maguire Foundation, the Chestnut Hill museum will get to work transforming its neighbor into a modern art space.

4 years ago

Joan Myers Brown (left) and Christine Cox (right)
Dance
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Two Philadelphia dance icons to be honored in Avenue of Arts ceremony

Avenue of the Arts Visionary Awards will honor two founding members of Philadelphia dance. Joan Myers Brown and Christine Cox will be honored on April 22.

4 years ago

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File photo: DJ Kay Slay attends a listening party for
Music
National
Performing Arts

Hip hop pioneer DJ Kay Slay dies of COVID-19 at age 55

Pioneering hip hop artist DJ Kay Slay has died of complications from COVID-19.

4 years ago

(from left) McKennzie Boyd, Taylor Livingston and Anya Jiménez are among the teenage playwrights chosen to present their work about gun violence, marking the 23rd anniversary of the Columbine shootings. #Enough (via NPR)
NPR
Gun Violence
National
Performing Arts

Young playwrights confront gun violence with their art and say #Enough

Nationwide, theaters and civic organizations commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the Columbine school shootings by presenting readings of eight short plays by teenagers.

4 years ago

An image of Mickey Mouse in the foreground with the Academy of Music on South Broad Street in the background.
History
Movies
Music
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

The Philadelphia Orchestra’s starring role in Disney’s famed ‘Fantasia’ — and music recording history

Philly artists played an instrumental part in bringing stereo sound to the silver screen.

4 years ago

Charlie Brown Jr. during a Sixers-Spurs game in January 2022.
Philadelphia
Sports
Billy Penn

For Northeast Philly’s Charlie Brown Jr., playing with the Sixers is a dream come true

“It’s been the craziest year of my life,” the 25-year-old said.

4 years ago

Prince Harry (right) and Meghan Markle (rear left) Duke and Duchess of Sussex, attend the Land Rover Driving Challenge at the Invictus Games venue in The Hague, Netherlands, Saturday, April 16, 2022. The week-long games for active servicemen and veterans who are ill, injured or wounded opens Saturday in this Dutch city that calls itself the global center of peace and justice
International
Military
Sports

Drive time: Harry and Meghan ride in miniature Land Rovers

Competition at the Invictus Games has begun with a driving challenge around an automotive obstacle course ahead of an evening opening ceremony.

4 years ago

Charlie Brown Jr. during a Sixers-Spurs game in January 2022 Chris Szagola/AP Photo)
Philadelphia
Sports
Billy Penn

For Northeast Philly’s Charlie Brown Jr., playing with the Sixers is a dream come true

“It’s been the craziest year of my life,” the 25-year-old said.

4 years ago

People are playing volleyball onstage in the Wilma Theater's production of
International
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Russian director reimagines classic Russian play ‘The Cherry Orchard’ for the Wilma Theater

The Wilma Theater brought Dmitry Krymov over from Moscow to direct the classic Russian play “The Cherry Orchard” as the Russian war in Ukraine continues.

4 years ago

(Jerry Seinfeld/Twitter)
TV

Liz Sheridan, Jerry’s doting mom on ‘Seinfeld,’ dies at 93

Sheridan’s “Seinfeld” role as Helen was her best known but followed decades of work on stage and screen.

4 years ago

The inaugural exhibition, ''Making Place Matter,'' opens on April 23. It will feature this wall installation of plates by Molly Hatch, inspired by a painting of rowers on the Schuylkill River, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Classes
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

The Clay Studio opens new building in Kensington, for Kensington

The purpose-built ceramics workshop and community space is designed with its neighbors in mind.

4 years ago

Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist is published by W.W. Norton and Company. Photo by Catherine Marin.
Radio Times
Animals
Books
Gender

Frans de Waal on gender roles and primates

In studying a society of male dominated monkeys and comparing them to a female-led group of monkeys, primatologist Frans de Waal challenges human assumptions about gender.

Air Date: April 14, 2022 10:00 am

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People dressed as Easter bunnies pose for a photo.
Things To Do
Community Events
Music
Performing Arts
Visual Arts

Easter Parade, Passover, Frankford Ave. pet fest, and Amos Lee’s homecoming in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Easter and Passover are celebrated in the Delaware Valley, Kristen Chenoweth and Amos Lee are performing around the city.

4 years ago

File photo: Actor Gilbert Gottfried attends the Tribeca Film Festival opening night world premiere of
NPR
Movies
Performing Arts
TV

Comedian Gilbert Gottfried has died

According to a post on his verified Twitter feed, he died following a long illness. He was 67.

4 years ago

Barbara Silzle, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. (Courtesy of Philadelphia Cultural Fund)
Government
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

The head of the Philadelphia Cultural Fund has one last fight before stepping down

Barbara Silzle has one more budget fight with the city before leaving the fund that distributes public money to small and mid-sized organizations.

4 years ago

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