Arts & Entertainment

A little-known artistic revolution in Cuba almost 40 years ago is now featured at the African American Museum in Philadelphia. A gro ...

“Ways to Disappear” by Idra Novey, a poet, translator, and lecturer in creative writing at Princeton University, is a genre- ...

One afternoon several weeks ago Blanka Zizka was — where else? — in a rehearsal. The artistic director and co-founder (along wit ...

Pop music is garbage, and things aren’t like they used to be, say the boys from Philly band Satellite Hearts, playing in residency thro ...

Preserving heritage This week on First we look at two aspects of African American Culture. In a moment we’ll go ...

It’s mere coincidence that the small window of time when Mayor Jim Kenney lifted the longtime ban on skating in Philadelphia’ ...

King Midas is known as the man with the golden touch. Legend has it that everything he grasped turned to gold. The myth has been r ...

The Boss has a book deal. Simon & Schuster announced Thursday that Bruce Springsteen has spent the past several years working ...

BalletX, the Philadelphia modern dance company, is premiering a new work based on the music of Amy Winehouse as the finale of a three-par ...

Have you made reservations for Valentine’s Day yet? Consider this: Don’t. Do yourselves a favor and play it by ear. Sk ...

Senators Tom Carper, Chris Coon, and Representative John Carney join WHYY’s Shirley Min for a discussion on issues ranging from ter ...

The Wagner Free Institute of Science in North Philadelphia is a 19th-century natural history museum filled with fossils, minerals, and ta ...

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 ...

Mayor Jim Kenney has appointed Philadelphia’s new poet laureate. Yolanda Wisher will officially advocate for education and civic en ...

Hope for reform The desire for prison reforms have been coming from many corners of the state. Keeping young men f ...