Arts & Entertainment
My addiction, my world, my Phillies
An alcoholic needs to have a drink all the time. A drug user needs to get a quick fix. I am obsessed with the Philadelphia Phillies.
9 years ago
Film director Jonathan Demme to sell off part of his Haitian art collection
The art collection of film director Jonathan Demme is now on display at a Philadelphia auction house. It will be sold off this weekend.&n ...
10 years ago
ListenOn ‘Radio Times’: Mohsin Hamid urges Americans to take risks
Generally, when we hear stories of refugees fleeing their war torn home countries, they’re traveling by sea, land or air. In Mohsin Ham ...
10 years ago
The Philadelphia Flower Show brings the land of tulips here
On Thursday, inside the Pennsylvania Convention Center, landscape architects and floral designers were putting final touches on their int ...
10 years ago
Listen‘Moonlight’ illuminates a new vision of the black community
“Moonlight” is more than just an LGBT story. It subtly redefines who and what the black community is. Yes, there is violence, ...
10 years ago
Why federal support for the arts matters
Just before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, The Hill — a news organization that covers Congress — reported the incoming admi ...
10 years ago
Advocacy group says pre-K art classes may improve learning
An arts advocacy organization in Philadelphia has issued the first of a series of reports outlining how, exactly, the arts benefit the ci ...
10 years ago
Quilts for the walls: Delaware artist goes from teaching biochemistry to making ‘art quilts’
Virginia Abrams was teaching biochemistry, when she discovered art quilts. She's since traded the lab for a sewing machine.
10 years ago
‘Hunger doesn’t look the way you think it looks’
A mobile exhibition about the faces of hunger in America has rolled into the Philadelphia area. The multimedia gallery of document ...
10 years ago
Review: ‘Tomfoolery,’ but far from foolish
Tom Lehrer, a master of irreverence, wrote cheerful songs that slammed core Establishment values in the ’50s and also land punches ...
10 years ago
ListenCarol Burnett brings her Q&A format show to Philadelphia
When comedy legend Carol Burnett, 83, takes the stage of the Kimmel Center on April 11, it will be a throwback to The Carol Burnett Show ...
10 years ago
Art and data marry to illuminate stories of life on the Schuylkill River
President Trump is committed to eliminating the Waters of the U.S. Rule, which outlines federally protected ...
10 years ago
National Constitution Center brings back its Prohibition exhibit
One more for the road. The National Constitution Center is re-staging its exhibition, “American Spirits: the Rise and Fall o ...
10 years ago
For these ceramic and wood artists, small is beautiful
Right now, the Clay Studio in Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood looks like a doll house lover’s dream. The walls hol ...
10 years ago
On ‘Radio Times’: Author Yiyun Li on loving a tyrannical mother
Author Yiyun Li wrote her latest literary work, “Dear Fr ...
10 years ago