Arts & Entertainment

A new novel is released this week about an underground cult obsessed with the work of the artist Marcel Duchamp, and a runaway teenager s ...

In hip-hop, ego is the main ingredient in some of the best songs of all time. You’d be hard-pressed to find an emcee who doesn̵ ...

The Catholic Archdiocese in Philadelphia has erected a new public sculpture downtown, depicting Jesus as a homeless man sleeping on a ben ...

Imagine a large theater set depicting a Mesopotamian Ziggurat, decorated with Iraqi national symbols and you’ll get an idea of the ...

This week, Good Good Comedy Theater, a small comedy club in Philadelphia’s Chinatown, will host two comedians who might have the ne ...

This Thursday is the feast day of Saint Pantaleon, a third-century physician from the region that is now Turkey, who is known as the patr ...

Since its inception in 1925, the New Yorker has published some 70,000 cartoons featuring the likes of Charles Addams, George Booth, Saul ...

Life Do Grow Farm is an oasis in North Philadelphia, a former dumping ground reclaimed for use by the community. Here, young peopl ...

“As You Like It,” Shakespeare’s tale of outcasts who flee to the forest and proceed to ruminate deliciously on love, co ...

The Italians have a word that does not have an English counterpart. It is sprezzatura — the art of artlessness. Erik Petersen embodied sprezzatura perfectly.

This week, Clark Park in West Philadelphia will host its annual free, outdoor performance of a Shakespeare play.  This year the play ...

Delaware Shakespeare’s spirited production of “Henry V” has plenty of plusses. The biggest of these is a bold choice to ...

Guest: Tracy K. Smith TRACY K. SMITH ...

There are between 15-30,000 Liberian immigrants living in the Philadelphia region, many of whom fled after the Liberian civil wars. ...

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