Arts & Entertainment
Addressing oversight, Philly Orchestra to present work by women composers
The Philadelphia Orchestra will bring in more women composers next season, including a workshop of six new pieces.
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Welcome home Martha Graham Cracker, Philly’s beloved drag queen, plus 9 more events this week
Philly's First Lady of Drag makes her triumphant return home this week.
7 years ago
Listen 5:23Rihanna is the 21st century’s most influential musician
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.
7 years ago
One of Philly’s oldest art collectives, Space 1026, to lose its home of 20 years
Keeping Philly weird for 20 years, Space 1026 is forced out of their Chinatown building.
7 years ago
Art Museum summer program caters to young Modernists
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.
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This circus travels on its stomach, but lightly
A team of international chefs working in a portable kitchen keeps Cirque du Soleil performers happy and fit.
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Spike Lee checks under the hood in the blistering ‘BlacKkKlansman’
Spike Lee's new movie, BlackkKlansman, is based on a true story, but the plot sounds crazy enough that you'd be excused for thinking he'd just made it up.
7 years ago
Four African-American composers go to church with Bernstein’s ‘Mass’
A Baptist church in West Philadelphia will premiere new music by four African-American composers working in the vein of Leonard Bernstein.
8 years ago
Let this percussionist blow your mind with The Fibonacci Sequence
Rhythm nerd alert! Bow down, drummers! Our social feeds have been on fire with a mind-bending, gasp-worthy video posted earlier this week.
8 years ago
Shooting star watch: How to stargaze the Perseid meteor shower
This weekend will offer some of the best stargazing of the year.
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A festival on Broad Street with no cars allowed and a bookbinding workshop are two of this week's highlights.
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Listen 5:18A ‘Tale’ of child sex abuse was inspired by filmmaker’s real-life trauma
"When I looked at it with my adult eyes, there was abuse all over it," she says.
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How learning science is catching up to Mr. Rogers
What makes Morgan Neville's biographical documentary so necessary, is that it shows Rogers was exactly what he appeared to be.
8 years ago
Lee Daniels’ life explored on ‘Breaking Big’
The intriguing PBS series “Breaking Big,” airing Friday at 8:30 p.m., traces the life and career path filmmaker and TV mogul Lee Daniels.
8 years ago
The inaugural Philadelphia’s Greatest Women Athletes and Coaches Awards
It should be a spectacular night for women’s sports in Philadelphia.
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