
Arts & Entertainment
Philly students take (many) steps to bring complicated world of Rube Goldberg to life
For several months, high school students across Philadelphia have been trying to figure out the most complicated way to erase a chalkboar ...
10 years ago
ListenWith city in flux, public art project seeks ideas for new Philly monument
A new public art and research project is posing this question to Philadelphians: What is your ideal city monument? ...
10 years ago
ListenContemporary artists find resonance in old folk tradition
“When you make a tweet and put an image with it, it has a lot more power,” said British artist Bob and Roberta Smith. “ ...
10 years ago
Bright hallmarks of early German immigrants, fraktur collection goes to Philly art museum
Life was not easy for many of the German immigrants who arrived in Philadelphia in the 18th century. They dispersed throughout Southeaste ...
10 years ago
ListenWith new owner, Prince Theater continues reign in Center City
A longtime renter has stepped up to buy the troubled Prince Theater in Center City Philadelphia. The 450-seat venue on Chestnut Street at ...
10 years ago
ListenFormer gallery owner who built other artists gets her own show at Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is giving Shelley Spector her first solo museum show. The sculpture artist has been a longtime Philadelphi ...
10 years ago
First for Friday, March 6, 2015
Seashore Mallow Delaware’s coast line is slowly being eaten away every time there is a major storm, and through the effect ...
Air Date: March 6, 2015
How turning 40 helped Yannick Nézet-Séguin conduct long-silent pieces
This week, for the first time in its history, the Philadelphia Orchestra is performing Vaughan Williams’ Symphony Number 4. ...
10 years ago
ListenCurtis composer builds musical layers with ‘Cymbeline’ score
Composer David Ludwig has written premieres for major ensembles, including the Philadelphia Orchestra. The teacher of composition at the ...
10 years ago
ListenWinding road leads Jesse Morgan to help Owls take flight
For the first few possessions, the giant scoreboard inside the Liacouras Center displayed two big zeros. Neither Temple University ...
10 years ago
ListenEdit-a-thon helps close Wikipedia’s gender gap [photos]
Maybe you’ve never heard of the artists Chrissy Conant or Philadelphia native Nancy Cox-McCormack. Now, if you wanted to find mo ...
10 years ago
Review: ‘Milk Like Sugar’ but not so sweet
Kirsten Greenidge’s “Milk Like Sugar,” in a bold staging from Simpatico Theatre Project on four small spaces on the top ...
10 years ago
Rare chance to taste rare beer brings cheer and charity to Philly
Seated in a folding chair beneath two blankets, Christina Forsythe shivered in Monday morning’s 25-degree cold outside Monk’s ...
10 years ago
Drexel students bring modern mixes to archive of funky recordings
“It’s funky. It’s just fun. I don’t know …It’s cool,” said Jake Keenan, a sophomore at Drexel U ...
10 years ago
ListenReview: ‘Under the Skin’ and going deep
Michael Hollinger, in his eighth play for Arden Theatre Company, has written ostensibly about a man who needs a kidney transplant and ask ...
10 years ago