Arts & Entertainment

The Cherry Street Pier on the Delaware River waterfront is expected to open Oct. 12 with an open-air park, marketplace, food service and bar, and an artists colony.

Her entire career was a testimony to the wondrous mixtape of America itself. She stands as a rebuke to cultural police who try to prevent that type of border-crossing.

The 20th annual Marian Anderson Award – for artistry and altruism – will go to Queen Latifah.

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn talks with Philadelphia Eagles head coach Doug Pederson.

Nominations were announced Monday for the awards for excellence in Philadelphia-area professional theater.

Faithful fans of world, blues, and folk music endured a weekend of intermittent showers to see a broad roster of performances at the 57th Philadelphia Folk Festival.

You can see the genius, and touch it: The Van Gogh Museum of Amsterdam set nine masterpieces out on tour of American shopping malls, bumps and all.

Franklin's rendition of Respect spelled out what it meant to be black in America, to be a woman in this society, to be beautiful in a world that defined beauty as the polar op

Fashionistas and foodies trekked through the streets of Center City Philadelphia in their finest pressed white attire to dine outdoors at the seventh Dîner en Blanc.

Aretha Franklin, who was born and rose to fame during the segregation era and went on to sing at the inauguration of the first black pres ...

Aretha Franklin, 76, was the Queen of Soul. One of her final performances was in Philadelphia.

The Philadelphia Orchestra will bring in more women composers next season, including a workshop of six new pieces.

Philly's First Lady of Drag makes her triumphant return home this week.

Keeping Philly weird for 20 years, Space 1026 is forced out of their Chinatown building.

The second floor east balcony of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which arguably has the best view of the Parkway in the city, will be a cardboard cityscape.