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Arts & Entertainment

Mr. Rogers, subject of the 2018 documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor, rehearsing for a taping of his television show Mr. Roger's Neighborhood in 1989. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Radio Times
Movies

The best movies of 2018

Guests: Neil Oxman, Gary Thompson 2018 is winding down, which means it’s time to take a look at the best movies ...

Air Date: December 27, 2018 10:00 am

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Amanda Kiesel sews Velcro onto sequined suspenders at the Avalon String Band club house in South Philadelphia while costume coordinator Jimmy Tatar uses a glue gun to add feathers to a hat.
Community Events
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Sewing for strutting: Next generation helps Mummers step up their costume game

The Avalon String Band — a Mummers club on Two Street — recruited a design graduate to upgrade their costumes and save them money.

6 years ago

Wallace Acton as Fagin in Quintessence Theatre Group's production of the musical
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts

Dark and dreary? Light and peppy? ‘Oliver!’ at Quintessence Theatre Group

The script to the musical isn't so sterling, and the production tries to make it something it's not. So come for the show's well-written music.

6 years ago

45 RPM sleeve for 'Christmas On The Block' - Alan Mann Band (1984). (Image via Flickr Creative Commons, uploaded by Brian of Retroland U.S.A.)
Speak Easy
Music
Neighborhoods

Seeing what really matters at Christmas

In Philadelphia, there's a very special song that reminds us of what Christmas is really all about.

6 years ago

Hank Willis Thomas' Afro pick sculpture,
Higher Education
Visual Arts

Black Power Afro pick sculpture takes root at Philadelphia museum

The piece engaged 80,000 passers-by who stopped specifically to look at the sculpture or ask about it over three months.

6 years ago

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A bust of Harriet Tubman stands in the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center, a stop on the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, in Church Creek, Md. A group in Cape May, New Jersey, is planning a museum there in her honor. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
History
New Jersey

Museum honoring Harriet Tubman destined for Cape May

The museum will include a permanent exhibit on Harriet Tubman, who spent time in Cape May during the 1850s raising money for helping slaves escape from the South.

6 years ago

Spirits march through Northern Liberties for the 2018 Parade of Spirits.
View Finders
Community Events
Visual Arts

Krampus brings dark winter magic to Northern Liberties

New traditions blend with old in Northern Liberties' Parade of Spirits.

6 years ago

Anthony Lawton as the storyteller in Lantern Theater Company's production of
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts

A fresh, new look at ‘A Christmas Carol’ (Lantern Theater Co.)

Anthony Lawton is the storyteller in this recreation of the tale of transformation.

6 years ago

Laura Giknis as a first-grade teacher, Ian Merrill Peakes as Miss Trunchbull, and Jemma Bleu Greenbaum (far right), one of two actresses who play Matilda on different nights in the Walnut Street Theatre production of the musical
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts

In Walnut Street Theatre’s ‘Matilda,’ being smart is not enough

The musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's fantasy brings the book's cartoonish — and nasty — characters alive.

6 years ago

Drew Seeley and Chilina Kennedy star in Delaware Theatre Company's 2018 production of A Sign of The Times. (Matt Urban)
Delaware
Performing Arts

Delaware Theatre’s ‘A Sign of the Times’ is nostalgic, but timely

“A Sign of the Times” offers a perfect break from the holiday rush: thoughtful but not overly so, nostalgic but timely … and just plain fun.

6 years ago

The future Faith and Liberty Discovery Center will expand to occupy the covered walkway at the corner of 5th and Market streets, opposite the National Museum American Jewish History and Independence Mall.
Philadelphia
Religion

Bible Museum breaks ground at Independence Mall

A forthcoming Bible museum at Independence Mall will add scriptural perspective to American history.

6 years ago

Artists from Space 1026, (from left) Jacqueline Quinn, Rachel Gordon and Miriam Singer, prepare for the collective's final auction at 1026 Arch Street in Chinatown. A steep rent increase has driven them to seek space elsewhere.
Changing Communities
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Last hurrah: Space 1026 pulls out the stops for final Arch St. art auction

A landmark artists collective in Philadelphia — Space 1026 — is gearing up to move out of its building of 21 years. This weekend's art auction pulls out the stops.

6 years ago

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A 1770s pickle stand created by Philadelphia’s Bonnin and Morris, the first American porcelain factory is currently on display at the Museum of the American Revolution through December 2018, on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
History
Philadelphia

Politics, pottery and pickle trays: A history lesson at the Museum of the American Revolution

Radical porcelain: the Museum of the American Revolution will host a workshop to demonstrate the uses of ceramics toward political ends.

6 years ago

Mary Tuomanen and James Ijames in Theatre Exile's production of
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts

‘Completeness’ or not

Two graduate students, into their work but aloof from themselves

6 years ago

A group of convention goers, some dressed as Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlett and Mrs. Peacock, participate in a Clue tournament at PAX Unplugged.)
View Finders
Community Events
Philadelphia
Technology

Gamers unplug at Philly PAX convention

Deep in the dark corners of the Pennsylvania Convention Center, something is stirring. Orcs, elves, and adventurers of all kinds are gath ...

6 years ago

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