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 Nick Stuccio is the president and producing director of FringeArts in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY, file)

Philly Fringe Festival begins — with added benefits

The 2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival begins Thursday, unleashing two and a half w ...

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Delaware
History
Military

Photos give a new way to permanently honor Vietnam veterans in Washington, D.C.

A group is collecting photos of all veterans killed in Vietnam as part of a new education center to be built on the National Mall. ...

9 years ago

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Musician Dar Williams offers thought on orchestrating positive community change

Touring professionally for 25 years, singer and songwriter Dar Williams has passed through a lot of towns, big and small — over and ove ...

9 years ago

 (image via Arden Theatre)

Arden Theater celebrates 30 years by returning to its roots and paying it forward

This fall, the Arden Theater in Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood turns 30 years old. To mark the occasion, it has brought on a ...

9 years ago

 (image via Arden Theatre)
Performing Arts

Arden Theater celebrates 30 years by returning to its roots and paying it forward

This fall, the Arden Theater in Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood turns 30 years old. To mark the occasion, it has brought on a ...

9 years ago

First experience: Rick Phillips
Delaware
Visual Arts

For Delaware artist Rick Phillips, painting is like a ‘religious experience’

From illustration to fine art, Rick Phillips has always been an artist. But it’s his fine art that made him happy. After sta ...

9 years ago

Delaware

79th Annual Members’ Fine Arts Exhibition, Photography Walk at Hagley Museum and more to see and do in Delaware this week

From concerts and movies, to special events for the whole family, there is always something to see and do in Delaware. Here are some of o ...

9 years ago

A scene from the FringeArts-curated show 'HOME.' (Photo courtesy of Maria Baranova)
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Music
Performing Arts

The Philly Fringe Festival unfolds, at age 21

A list of Philly Fringe highlights is at the bottom of this article. The Philly ...

9 years ago

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 ...

9 years ago

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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 ...

9 years ago

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

9 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 ...

9 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 ...

9 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 ...

9 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 ...

9 years ago

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