Arts & Entertainment
Flower show spotlights National Parks and features winter beer garden
In the dead of winter, the Philadelphia Flower Show can be a beacon, reminding us of the coming spring and this year will be more about w ...
9 years ago
Kenney taps poet laureate for city
Mayor Jim Kenney has appointed Philadelphia’s new poet laureate. Yolanda Wisher will officially advocate for education and civic en ...
9 years ago
Hope for reform The desire for prison reforms have been coming from many corners of the state. Keeping young men f ...
Air Date: February 5, 2016
Eligible retrievers take the field for Puppy Bowl [photos]
Super Bowl Sunday has developed its own series of rituals: chips and dip, the halftime show, the commercials, and, in the last several ye ...
9 years ago
ListenSS United States could be turned into luxury cruise ship
An ocean liner bigger than the Titanic that once carried celebrities across the Atlantic at record speeds may one day sail again. ...
9 years ago
‘Cold Mountain’ finds fresh voice with Opera Philadelphia
It is a National Book Award-winning novel, an Academy Award-winning film, and now it’s an opera. Opera Philade ...
9 years ago
ListenFrom Toynbee to Point Breeze, Philly rapper Lushlife steps forward in the city that sustains him
Raj Haldar is a Philly guy pretty much all the way through. Now he’s ready to release his third LP, “ ...
9 years ago
Young ‘Iron Man’ fan from South Jersey becomes part of hero’s comic book story [photos]
A 5-year-old boy in Voorhees, New Jersey, has become a global sensation for his appearance in an “Iron Man” comic book. Max L ...
9 years ago
ListenPacking a lesson in perseverance, play about disintegrating school staged at Suzanne Roberts
Ever wonder what happens to the teachers, administrators, the whole universe of people who work in a large urban high school when it shut ...
9 years ago
ListenDuPont’s downfall This week Delaware Governor Jack Markell releases his budget wish list for 2017. We’ll go ov ...
Air Date: January 29, 2016
Review: At the Drake in Center City, an evolution and ‘#therevolution’
For InterAct Theatre Company – founded 28 years ago to stage works that speak to current issues – Wednesday night marked a new era. N ...
9 years ago
From opener to headliner, Rayland Baxter brings warm, weird country to World Cafe
Rayland Baxter’s sound is intoxicating — a stubborn adherence to a personal sonic aesthetic that scuffs up neat categorization. H ...
9 years ago
T.J. Tindall, a creator of the Philadelphia Sound, dies at 65
One of the architects of the Philadelphia Sound died Tuesday. T.J. Tindall was a guitar player who worked on major funk and R&B recor ...
9 years ago
Listen‘Dancin On Air’ spins off a reality show
Casey Reed, an afternoon drive-time DJ on Philadelphia’s Q102, has been holding down a second gig as a TV host of “Dancin On ...
9 years ago
ListenTemple and Chinese university partner with new Confucius Institute
Tonight, Temple University will hold a public demonstration about the nuances of Chinese tea. It will be the first public event of ...
9 years ago