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Arts & Entertainment

Pianist Lance Wiseman plays
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Kids
Music

Local pianist to romance the butterfly at Insectarium

The butterfly pavilion at the Insectarium in Northeast Philadelphia will host a concert of bug music.

7 years ago

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Joey Arrigo, as the character Waz, performs on a lighting fixture in
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Pennsylvania
Performing Arts

The thrill and exhaustion of watching Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Volta’

Some of the show's performances are so extreme (and look so dangerous), you wonder how anyone ever learned to do this stuff.

7 years ago

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Delaware Shakespeare players entertain a big crowd at Rockwood Park in 2017's performance of Henry V. (Alessandra Nicole/Delaware Shakespeare)
Delaware
Performing Arts

Delaware ministers take turns on stage in Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’

Seven faith leaders from the local community who will play the part of the good friar over the next two weeks in the Delaware Shakespeare’s production.

7 years ago

Families gather in the Great Stair Hall at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for ArtSplash, a kid-friendly summer program that is having extraordinary success.
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Kids
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Art Museum summer program caters to young Modernists

The Philadelphia Museum of Art's summertime Art Splash program takes cues from urban Modernism.

7 years ago

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Music

Teen rocker Snail Mail takes the stage at Union Transfer — July 14, 2018

Lindsay Jordan is a songwriter who is wise beyond her years.

7 years ago

Croatia's Mario Mandzukic celebrates after the semifinal match between Croatia and England at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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Community Events

Your Weekly Roundup for July 12-19, 2018

If you won’t be watching the World Cup final, or down in the waves, check out one of these events.

7 years ago

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Recording artist Lauryn Hill pays tribute to Nina Simone during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction ceremony, Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/David Richard)
Things To Do
Music

Twenty Years after ‘Miseducation,’ Lauryn Hill to perform seminal album at Festival Pier – July 13, 2018

The R & B legend is scheduled to perform the album in its entirety and will be accompanied by some big-name guests.

7 years ago

Melissa Joan Hart, star of the WB network series
Things To Do
TV

TGIF: Forgotten ‘90s TV shows resurrected for Friday the 13th — July 13, 2018

Remember "Baby Talk"? What about "Odd Man Out"? No? Revisit these and other not-quite-classics at PhilaMOCA on Friday.

7 years ago

Jessica DalCanton and Jared Reed in Hedgerow Theater's stage adaptation of the film
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Performing Arts

‘His Girl Friday,’ the old days, and now (Hedgerow Theatre)

A classic film comedy, adapted for the stage, has a different resonance these days.

7 years ago

This monumental leather jacket sculpture, titled PODERWAĆ, 2017, by Ursula von Rydingsvard, inspired a film series on the leather jacket in cinema. (Credit: Carlos Avendaño)
Things To Do
Movies

Hypermasculine, totally queer: Celebrating the leather jacket in cinema — July and August 2018

The Fabric Workshop and Museum has partnered with Lightbox Film Center to present a film series celebrating the iconic jacket.

7 years ago

First
Delaware
History

A tea caddy collection with a Broadway connection on display in Delaware

Mark Bramble is a Broadway author and producer best known for '42nd Street' and 'Barnum. A portion of his mother's tea caddy collection is on display now in historic Odessa.

7 years ago

Lesley Ann Warren, Colleen Camp and Eileen Brennan stand on the set of the movie
Things To Do

Classic whodunit game Clue comes to life with bona fide forensics — July 24, 2018

The Franklin Institute will become the scene of a (fictional) murder for this Science After Hours event.

7 years ago

Paige Martini and Patrick Romano in Theatre Contra's production of
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts

In Ionesco’s ‘The Lesson,’ the tyranny of the academy (Contra Theatre Company)

The student wants to be enrolled for "the full doctorate." And who knows what the professor wants?

7 years ago

 Miss North Dakota Cara Mund reacts after being named Miss America Sunday in Atlantic City in 2017. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
National
New Jersey

Factions in Miss America split over leadership, direction

Former Miss America winners and state pageant officials are split over the leadership and direction of the organization, which was rocked by a 2017 email scandal.

7 years ago

A man looks at a red granite sphinx in the Egypt gallery at the Penn Museum
NewsWorks Tonight
History
Philadelphia

After a century in the limelight, ancient Egyptian sphinx going back into hiding

Penn Museum's iconic, 3,200-year-old Egyptian sphinx will disappear for several years, starting Monday, while its gallery undergoes renovations.

7 years ago

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