Arts & Entertainment

Director Bill Nicoletti’s “The Philly Sound…Heard ‘Round the World” will screen at this year’s festival. The film documents the history of Sigma Sounds Studio.

The Curtis marks its 100th birthday this weekend with concerts and an open house of its historic Rittenhouse Square campus.

Through 10th and Race streets, Chinatown residents, restaurants and artists gave visitors an escape from the everyday experiences of Philadelphia.

Twenty-six years after the savage killing of Matthew Shepard, a theatrical oratorio makes its Pennsylvania premiere at the Mann Center.

Oct. 10–13: OURfest in Philly, Atlantic City Comedy Festival in New Jersey and Diamond State Black Film Festival in Delaware are among the weekend’s highlights.

It was a bitter exit for the NL East champion Phillies, who won 95 games and finished six ahead of the wild-card Mets during the regular season.

The two-part, four-hour documentary on Leonardo da Vinci will air on WHYY Channel 12 on Nov. 18 and 19 at 8 p.m.

Game 4 is Wednesday at Citi Field, with All-Star Ranger Suárez scheduled to start for Philadelphia against fellow lefty José Quintana.

Cissy Houston died Monday morning in her New Jersey home while under hospice care for Alzheimer’s disease, according to her daughter-in-law Pat Houston.

“The Moment the Music Stood Still” is a traveling exhibition of artifacts collected from the destroyed Nova Music Festival.

“This Is the Week That Is,” the annual spoof of current events, takes aim at the presidential election.

Gymnastics gym Philly inMovement is taking 13 athletes to the Gold Over America Tour. Simone Biles and other gymnasts will perform and celebrate Team USA’s Olympic victories.

Cast adrift by the closing of the University of the Arts in June, the art film presenter will start weekly screenings in South Philadelphia.

Oct. 3–6: Revolutionary Germantown Festival in Philly, Collingswood Book Festival in New Jersey and Marquis de Lafayette in Delaware are among the weekend’s highlights.