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Arts & Entertainment

The Arab American punk rock festival, YallaPunk, makes its debut in Fishtown. (Atsushi Iwai)
Music

Philly gets its first Arab punk festival

This weekend Philadelphia hosts a festival of punk rock, metal, comedy, and poetry — all by Arab artists. It is the first of what its o ...

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 In this Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama leaves after speaking about the economy, Iraq, and Ukraine, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, before convening a meeting with his national security team on the militant threat in Syria and Iraq. Obama's summer fashion choice, not unprecedented among presidents - himself included - was the talk of social media, Thursday. Other presidents who have taken on tan include Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush and Dwight Eisenhower. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, file)
National Interest

The good old days of Fashiongate suited us fine

Join me on a brief traipse down memory lane – three years ago today, on the eve of the ’14 Labor Day weekend – so that ...

8 years ago

 Workers set up the stage for the Made in America concert on the Ben Franklin Parkway. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
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Philadelphia
Streets & Roads

Made in America: 5 stages, 60 acts, and as many street closures to Parkway #LDW17

It’s Labor Day Weekend in Philadelphia, and that means block parties, barbecue, and Made in America on the Parkway. Here are a f ...

8 years ago

 Scott Sheppard and Alice Yorke of Lightning Rod Special theater company are co-creators of ''Unformed Consent,'' a dark comedy about abortion. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Philly theater company’s dark comedy ‘Unformed Consent’ brings unlikely subject to limelight

This week, Philadelphia theater company Lightning Rod Special is performing a musical comedy about abortion called “Unformed Consen ...

8 years ago

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 It's a very relaxed atmosphere at the DelVal Bluegrass Festival. You are welcome to sit in any chair until the owner comes back. (Howard Pitkow/for Newsworks, 2016 file photo)
Music
New Jersey

Del McCoury, Asleep at the Wheel to headline the 2017 Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival

Get ready to pick out the jams, bluegrass fans. The Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival returns to the Salem County Fairgrounds for its 46 ...

8 years ago

 The cast of ''We Shall Not Be Moved,'' (from left) John Little (tenor Daniel Shirley), John Blue (countertenor John Holiday), John Mack (baritone Adam Richardson), Un/Sung (spoken word artist Lauren Whitehead), and John Henry (bass-baritone Aubrey Allicock) stand in front of the boarded-up Osage Avenue home on the site of the 1985 MOVE bombing in Philadelphia. (Dominic M. Mercier for Opera Philadelphia)
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Opera Philadelphia offers first look at MOVE bombing opera

An opera based on the 1985 MOVE confrontation — when police dropped a bomb on an African-American activist commune in West Philadelphia ...

8 years ago

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History
Philadelphia
Sculpture

A long-dead Pa. governor’s trip across town: Stolen Beaver bust recovered in FDR Park

The stolen bronze bust of a Civil War-era military commander was discovered Friday morning, abandoned beneath an Interstate 95 ...

8 years ago

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds perform during an air show at Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst in New Jersey. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Delaware
Military
Visual Arts

Air show to draw thousands to Dover Air Force Base

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will headline two days of aerial entertainment celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Air Force. ...

8 years ago

 ''The Terracotta Warriors of the First Emperor'' opens in September at the Franklin Institute. The 6,000-square-foot exhibition will feature 10 life-size clay soldiers and 164 artifacts, interactive components, and augmented reality experiences. (The Franklin Institute)

10 Chinese terracotta warriors coming to Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute

In October, the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia will present a few of the ancient Chinese terracotta warriors that were discovered in ...

8 years ago

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 A feather quill pen is inside the United States Post Office that predates the American colonies in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)
Speak Easy

Whatever happened to penmanship?

Have we lost the art of good handwriting, an art that indicates patience, care and self-respect? 

8 years ago

 Athletic Directors of the two academy's stand with Mayor Jim Kenney and his unique hat (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Sports

Philly retains Army-Navy game, but Meadowlands gets it for 2021

The annual Army Navy football game is remaining in Philadelphia for five of the next six years. Philadelphia beat out other major ...

8 years ago

 Artists work on the mural at Feltonville Recreation Center. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Law
Philadelphia

Philly mural artists seek employment after spending time in custody

Some ex-offenders and men and women on work release are teaming up to paint a mural in Philadelphia’s Feltonville neighborhood. &nb ...

8 years ago

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Music
Philadelphia

Scenes from the 2017 Philadelphia Folk Festival

For more than 50 years, the annual Philadelphia Folk Festival has been drawing thousands of visitors to Old Pool Farm in Schwenksville, P ...

8 years ago

The ensemble in 'Stupid F#*@ing Bird,' an Arden Theatre Company production that's nominated as best production of a play in this year's Barrymore Awards.
Shapiro on Theater

Arden Theatre rides high in Barrymore Award nominations

Productions by Arden Theatre Company in Center City overwhelm the nominations for this year’s Barrymore Awards for excellence in Ph ...

8 years ago

History
Military

Revolution museum teaches how fife and drums were tools of war

The sounds of the fife and drum filled the air outside of the Museum of the American Revolution Saturday with standards like “Yank ...

8 years ago

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