Arts & Entertainment

The mostly online festival of Black, brown, and Indigenous filmmakers will feature a one-day mini-festival of in-person screenings at the Mann Center.

Famed opera singer Marian Anderson will soon be immortalized with a statue outside of the Academy of Music.

George Harrison was one of the biggest rock stars on the planet in 1971 but there was no bravado in his voice as he lent his celebrity to discuss a global crisis.

From the moment MTV launched on Aug. 1, 1981, it was bound to rattle the nerves of parents and moral crusaders.

With the Tokyo Olympics underway, we check in on the athletes, the events, the victories and upsets, and how Covid is impacting the games.

Philadelphia Orchestra principal trumpet David Bilger explains the “energy and brilliance” of the Olympic theme to Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn.

The Illuminate the Arts COVID relief fund sends $1,000 to as many artists as possible.

The free, outdoor production of “Pericles” in West Philadelphia will be staged with aerial acrobatics, giant puppetry, and clowning.

Support has been pouring in for the community mainstay, which has been in the neighborhood for a decade.

Can documentaries change a city? A group of Philadelphia media-makers believes so, and they have the pitches to prove it.

For his show “Immigrant Mentality,” Sean Lugo installed a bodega inside Paradigm Gallery to evoke the life of his mother and other immigrants.

Philly’s Mausoleum of Contemporary Art comes back to life after prolonged struggle with zoning variances and city code compliance.

Larry Robin will publish the 25th anniversary edition of the annual anthology Poetry Ink, and stage a marathon poetry reading event via Zoom to celebrate.

A good portion of these were serious, substantial characters too — 80 percent of these movies had LGBTQ characters with over 10 minutes of screen time.

The historic prison museum’s 23-year-old Terror Behind the Walls haunted attraction will become part of a gentler Halloween Nights festival.