Arts & Entertainment

The famous director explained why it’s hard for new movie makers to convince studios to shoot in Pennsylvania. He argued for larger tax breaks.

Historian Richard Bell tells the story of the "reverse underground railroad" and of five black boys who were kidnapped 1825 Philadelphia and sold into slavery in the south.

The grounds of Eastern State Penitentiary survived years of abandonment and bids for redevelopment. There’s just as much history as there is terror behind those walls.

Produced and written by Black women, the film hits theaters on Nov. 1

The Philadelphia-based nonprofit Partners for Sacred Spaces is visiting churches in the city’s outlying neighborhoods to document forgotten pipe organs.

It’s unclear exactly where the rink will pop up.

There’s even a rare happy ending.

Joel Hodgson joins Marty to talk about his career, the humble beginnings of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and saying goodbye to his robot friends.

For its final weekend, the Philadelphia festival offers local movies about Eagles fans’ highs and lows, a weed warrior, and a displaced high school team.

The exhibit “30 Americans” — an ongoing, rotating show of high-profile black artists — has never before come to Philadelphia.

Pilot Beverly Bass says “Come From Away” is actually “a 9/12 story” about what happened after about 7,000 passengers were stranded in a tiny town.

Episode 4 of Season 14 doesn’t have a lot of local Philly flavor, but displays plenty of the city’s sardonic wit.

Airing Wednesdays on Adult Swim, TruthPoint features Dril and a cohost examining modern society in the context of the “dark web.”

The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s “Design for Different Futures” is “frenemies” with technology.

“There There” by Tommy Orange, a Native American novel set in contemporary Oakland, California is The Free Library’s next pick for the One Book One Philadelphia.