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Community Events
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Doylestown’s VAMPA Museum: Where history meets the paranormal

Vampire stakes, exorcism chairs and dolls that move: The Vampire and Paranormal Museum in Bucks County displays a rich history of the supernatural.

7 months ago

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John Legend
Movies
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Philadelphia Film Festival highlights local filmmakers with ‘Filmadelphia’ programming

Director Bill Nicoletti’s “The Philly Sound…Heard ‘Round the World” will screen at this year’s festival. The film documents the history of Sigma Sounds Studio.

7 months ago

students sitting for a commencement ceremony
History
Music
Philadelphia

The Curtis Institute has been Philly’s musical bedrock for 100 years

The Curtis marks its 100th birthday this weekend with concerts and an open house of its historic Rittenhouse Square campus.

7 months ago

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Race & Ethnicity

Photo essay: YèShì Chinatown Night Market dazzles thousands of people through art, food and dance

Through 10th and Race streets, Chinatown residents, restaurants and artists gave visitors an escape from the everyday experiences of Philadelphia.

7 months ago

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Characters in
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity
Billy Penn

Two productions look at Latinx life through many lenses

7 months ago

''Considering Matthew Shepard''
LGBTQ
Music
Philadelphia
Social Justice

The parents of Matthew Shepard came to Philly to remember their son at the Mann Center

Twenty-six years after the savage killing of Matthew Shepard, a theatrical oratorio makes its Pennsylvania premiere at the Mann Center.

7 months ago

Stevie Wonder performs
Things To Do
Community Events
Delaware
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Philadelphia

Stevie Wonder, Chinatown Night Market and the Scrapple and Apple Fest in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

Oct. 10–13: OURfest in Philly, Atlantic City Comedy Festival in New Jersey and Diamond State Black Film Festival in Delaware are among the weekend’s highlights.

7 months ago

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Carlos Estévez walks off the field and looks up
Philadelphia
Sports

Phillies out of the playoffs after 1-4 loss to Mets in NLDS Game 4

It was a bitter exit for the NL East champion Phillies, who won 95 games and finished six ahead of the wild-card Mets during the regular season.

7 months ago

David McMahon and Sarah Burns speak
History
Media
Movies

WHYY Media Lab students hear advice from filmmakers Sarah Burns and David McMahon ahead of documentary premiere

The two-part, four-hour documentary on Leonardo da Vinci will air on WHYY Channel 12 on Nov. 18 and 19 at 8 p.m.

7 months ago

Aaron Nola being taken off the mound
Philadelphia
Sports

Phillies lose to Mets 2-7, down 1-2 in NLDS

Game 4 is Wednesday at Citi Field, with All-Star Ranger Suárez scheduled to start for Philadelphia against fellow lefty José Quintana.

7 months ago

Cissy Houston
Music
New Jersey

Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston’s mother and a Grammy-winning singer, dies at 91

Cissy Houston died Monday morning in her New Jersey home while under hospice care for Alzheimer’s disease, according to her daughter-in-law Pat Houston.

7 months ago

Burned out cars from the Nova Music Festival in Israel that was attacked last year
International
Music
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity
Visual Arts

The aftermath of the Israeli music festival attacked on Oct. 7 to be recreated at the Weitzman museum

“The Moment the Music Stood Still” is a traveling exhibition of artifacts collected from the destroyed Nova Music Festival.

7 months ago

Actors dance onstage
Comedy
Elections
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

How to stop worrying and love the election cycle: ‘This Is the Week That Is’ brings comedy to the presidential race

“This Is the Week That Is,” the annual spoof of current events, takes aim at the presidential election.

7 months ago

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Simone Biles smiles and holds a medal
Philadelphia
Sports

Simone Biles excites young Philly gymnasts as she heads to Wells Fargo Center for Gold Over America Tour

Gymnastics gym Philly inMovement is taking 13 athletes to the Gold Over America Tour. Simone Biles and other gymnasts will perform and celebrate Team USA’s Olympic victories.

7 months ago

Lightbox Chief Curator Jesse Pires stands in a movie theater
Movies
Philadelphia

Lightbox Film Center finds a new home at the Bok Building

Cast adrift by the closing of the University of the Arts in June, the art film presenter will start weekly screenings in South Philadelphia.

7 months ago

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