
Arts & Entertainment
Report: Facebook suspends another data analytics firm as scandal widens
As the Facebook scandal over Cambridge Analytica's misuse of the personal data of millions of users continues to unfold, Facebook is suspending another data analytics firm ove
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‘The Simpsons’ to ‘The Problem With Apu’: Drop dead
Comedian Hari Kondabolu made a documentary in 2017 called The Problem With Apu.
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PAFA’s Chuck Close exhibit ends with workshop on the art of protest
The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts ended its Chuck Close exhibit Sunday with a workshop on the art of protest.
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‘Magdalene’ and the modern woman, from Tribe of Fools
The character we see on stage is Mary Magdalene. And more.
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Documentary ‘Albatross’ shows how our obsession with plastic is killing this bird
The film, screening April 14, will be a featured selection of this year’s Princeton Environmental Film Festival.
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On Broadway, they wear pink: ‘Mean Girls’ is now a musical
The 2004 movie was so influential that screenwriter Tina Fey and producer Lorne Michaels figured, why not a musical?
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Cheers! It’s time, once again, to celebrate the end of Prohibition
Grin and beer it: On April 7, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt legalized the sale and consumption of beer in the U.S. after 13 years of Prohibition.
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Listen 5:37Composer’s 14-hour final work set for Philadelphia premiere
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Klang will have performances on Saturday and Sunday at FringeArts.
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Listen 4:49Syrian-American hip-hop artist bridges rap and Arabic poetry
The Syrian-American poet and hip-hop artist Omar Offendum spent this week in Philadelphia and will perform at the International House this Sunday.
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Listen 2:04Orchestra’s new crowdsourced choral work features ‘Philadelphia Voices’
The Philadelphia Orchestra will premiere a new choral work based on sounds and poems crowdsourced from area residents.
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Listen 3:35Philadelphia bassist kicks off Jazz Appreciation Month with award, festival
Philadelphia kicked off April’s Jazz Appreciation Month by naming native son Jamaaladeen Tacuma as this year’s recipient of the Benny Golson Award.
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Listen 5:10‘V to X’ at the Arden an education in the inhumanity, inequity of mass incarceration
This brutal look at a life spent languishing in a privately operated "correctional facility" comes from theater artist Kash Goins.
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‘Paterno’ movie a polarizing story with unanswered questions
The HBO movie directed by Barry Levinson debuts Saturday and stars Oscar winner Al Pacino as Joe Paterno.
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Churchill had a tendency to tipple, but the ‘British Bulldog’ was no boozehound
'The Darkest Hour seems to show the prime minister with a whisky in every scene, but as he famously said, 'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'
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Blockbuster ‘Ready Player One’ a natural next step for Spielberg’s relentless career
Spielberg’s success has made him such a quintessential figure that, if you asked 10 people on the street to a name a film director, all 10 might very well identify him.
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