Arts & Entertainment

The city made a few adjustments this year to how it handles the massive festival founded by Jay-Z. The changes are intended to resolve tensions in the area about its impact.

Artes Ekeko (Ian Pierce) mined the mythologies of Central and South America to create an image of cultural pride and political dissent.

The ghostly forests of dead trees along the Mid-Atlantic shores are one indicator of a changing climate.

Smiles lit up the faces of pedestrians in Center City Saturday as they stopped in their tracks just after 5:30 p.m.

Farah Jasmine Griffin's 2001 book on Billie Holiday posed a challenge to biographers and our understanding of Holiday. She reflects on her changing connection to Lady Day.

The maps demonstrate a very different sense of space than maps drawn by Europeans. They're not drawn to scale; instead, they're deeply utilitarian.

This Labor Day weekend, YallaPunk focuses on celebration over discrimination.

By 6:30 p.m., thousands of celebrants in their pressed whites had gathered in the vicinity of the Art Museum.

This fall, discover a new self-guided audio walking tour of Old City that uncovers hidden stories of South Asians in Philadelphia.

August Wilson’s drama has received 11 nominations for this year’s awards for excellence in professional theater, which were announced Monday.

Fifty years to the day he performed at Woodstock, a weathered David Crosby stepped to the main stage of the Philadelphia Folk Festival.

Without the Schuylkill River School, there may never have been a Hudson River School, says the curator of a Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts exhibit.

Coltrane recorded the album in New Jersey, at the admiring behest of a Québécois filmmaker, who used it to score his docufictional film "Le chat dans le sac."

"It's hard to compare any modern-day festival to what occurred at the original Woodstock."

Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater encourages young people to invent plays out of hoaxes and misinformation.