Arts & Entertainment
Those loyal to Stiffel Center rally to preserve it
Everybody in the neighborhood used to call the Stiffel Center by its address: “Marshall and Porter.” For 83 years, the Jewish ...
11 years ago
Nominate Philly’s ‘Creative Connectors’
Take the ‘Creative Connector’s’ survey to identify Philadelphia’s most influential artists, musicians, and design ...
11 years ago
In depths of Philadelphia, the garden plot beckons
Philadelphia’s newest urban garden is as urban as it gets. Downtown, alongside one of Center City’s busiest traffic co ...
11 years ago
Puerto Rican group incensed over parade approach
The Latino social-services organization called Concilio is changing the way it will market the 49th annual Puerto Rican Parade. Concilio ...
11 years ago
All the room’s a stage: SoLow Festival offers intimate theater
Theater performers producing work with little or no money are using the cheapest venues they can find. This week, the SoLow theater festi ...
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Crack house becomes ‘A Place to Call Home’
A former crack house in Mantua has been transformed into an art installation by the Mural Arts Program. Addressing issues about homelessn ...
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Richard Dreyfuss starting contest for playwrights to promote civics lessons
An Academy Award-winning actor with a passion for civics wants to use the arts to get more class time for lessons on government. ...
11 years ago
No skulduggery, but Penn scientist’s conclusions still invalid
A collection of more than 1,000 skulls at the University of Pennsylvania Museum is at the center of a debate about scientific objectivit ...
11 years ago
Dead reckoning: 45 mummies arrive in Philadelphia
Six men in black suits, wearing sunglasses and earpieces, stood on the loading dock of the Franklin Institute looking like pallbearers. W ...
11 years ago
A banner day for fashion in Philly
Like a scene from “The Sound of Music,” advertisement banners that had fluttered from poles along Broad Street were pulled d ...
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Artist Chuck Connelly keeping it simple in Chestnut Hill
A small Chestnut Hill art gallery is showing the work of one of the more notorious artists of the last 30 years. Chuck Connelly ...
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Reaping treasure — and bargains — from Penn cast-offs
On Saturday morning, the University of Pennsylvania is selling off things its students leave behind. The annual PennMOVES program collect ...
11 years ago
Exhibit of dreamy dresses about to pack up
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is about to close its popular exhibit of dresses by Italian fashion designer Roberto Capucci. The s ...
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Philadelphia literary magazine launches TV show
A Philadelphia literary magazine is releasing its second issue this week, as well as its own television show. The “Apiary Mixtape ...
11 years ago
Play inspired by Mumia case has Phila. premiere this week
A play based on Mumia Abu-Jamal and Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner is premiering in the city this week. It is not a dramatiz ...
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