Arts & Entertainment

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.

She could also be a bit of a hoot.

In the video, Vile crisscrosses Philadelphia in a Chrysler convertible, running errands and avoiding the parking police

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 was more than a woman, more than a diva and more than an entertainer.

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a song many African-Americans know from school or church. You may know it from one of a few landmark performances.

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.

What does it mean to think of Rihanna, global superstar, as unheard? Her music has soundtracked most of this century, and that kind of ubiquity is easily taken for granted.

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.