
Arts & Entertainment
Louis CK’s sold out Philly show and the challenge for sexual violence survivors
The comedian has turned his admitted harassment into a standup joke.
5 years ago
Three friends chronicle the gentrification of their changing hometown and call for a new Harlem Renaissance in the Wilma Theater’s newest production.
5 years ago
Listen 1:27‘Inside the Actors Studio’ host James Lipton dies at 93
Lipton died of bladder cancer at his New York home, his wife, Kedakai Lipton, told the New York Times and the Hollywood Reporter. He was 93.
5 years ago
Man convicted of murder in Nicki Minaj crew member slaying
A man has been convicted of third-degree murder in the stabbing death of a Nicki Minaj crew member outside a Philadelphia bar five years ago.
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‘Dispatches from Elsewhere’ drinking game: Watch Jason Segel’s Philly-set AMC show
Amid the weirdness, Philadelphians can expect plenty of familiar sights.
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All the city’s a stage: Jason Segel’s new TV show gifts Philly a mural of itself
On the eve of its premiere, the new AMC show created and starring Jason Segel gives thanks to Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia Flower Show opens with a trip to the Cote d’Azur
The annual floral extravaganza has a Mediterranean theme, “Riviera Holiday,” recalling one of its famous native daughters.
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Opera Philadelphia opens next season with a real-life art heist
The 2020-2021 season will open with a new chamber opera about a major 2012 art heist at the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam.
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Listen 2:00‘Black Panther’ gets a musical premiere at Willingboro High School
A faith-based community theater company in New Jersey has turned the 2018 blockbuster superhero movie into a youth-empowering production.
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Listen 2:21New look proves it: The Phillie Phanatic is a modern dinosaur
Scales, a rounder snout and a bigger backside all point to this conclusion.
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Western Pa. native, B. Smith, model turned lifestyle guru, dead at 70
Model, restaurateur and lifestyle guru Barbara "B." Smith has died at her Long Island home, her family announced in a statement on social media.
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With ‘Babel,’ a Philly playwright to get six world premieres
The drama, about a society that tolerates only perfect pregnancies tested in utero, is being mounted, and refined, at National New Play Network theaters.
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New showcase for the work of sculptor Alexander Calder is making its way to the Parkway
A future “sanctuary” on Philadelphia’s Parkway will be devoted to the famed mobile artist and his artistic family.
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Art house cinema finds a home on the Avenue of the Arts
Philadelphia’s only year-round art cinema venue moves across town to the Avenue of the Arts.
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Listen 1:54PAFA displays Black art collection of Constance Clayton, former Philadelphia school superintendent
Constance Clayton has been collecting African American art for 30 years. She recently gave much of her collection to PAFA in Philadelphia.
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