Arts & Entertainment
Villanova student film highlights bond between homeless youth, rescue dogs
A new documentary produced by eight Villanova University students who study social justice highlights the strong bond between people and ...
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Philly celebrates Italian culture — with more in store
The only Italian museum in the tristate area had its grand opening a couple weeks ago in South Philadelphia. At the same time, ano ...
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Northeast Philly hosts old-time baseball; no gloves, no strike zone [photos]
A few dozen spectators at the Ryerss Museum in Fox Chase Saturday took in the game, pitting th ...
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Review: The universal ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
On the same day, Friday, that news outlets were showing images of some of the half-million Iraqis fleeing Mosul after Islamic extremists ...
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First for Friday, June 13, 2014
A life turned around The final weeks of the Delaware legislature’s current session will be busy. While the gas tax and cle ...
Air Date: June 13, 2014
In Barnes exhibit, Cézanne still lifes continue to astound
This weekend, the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia will opens a temporary exhibition of paintings by the French painter Paul Cézanne. N ...
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Fattah wants to rename 30th St. Station in honor of Bill Gray
30th Street Station may not be called that for much longer. U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah of Philadelphia is hoping to rename the transit ...
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Exhibit reviews how our sense of the world changed ‘in a flash’
Do you remember the astounding photo of a bullet piercing an apple? It was a breakthrough in explaining the science behind velocity ...
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At Philly gallery, developmentally disabled artists get respect as ‘outsiders’
A group of developmentally disabled adults in the greater Philadelphia region is now represented in one of Center City’s most respe ...
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Review: ‘Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll’ and other miscellany
The young and versatile actor Eric Scotolati, who in four seasons has appeared with at least nine theater companies here, is being put to ...
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Barnes Foundation joins surge to shield ash trees from destructive beetles [photos]
The invasive emerald ash borer beetle is approaching the greater Philadelphia region, threatening to devastate trees in South Jersey, Del ...
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Ardmore tailor among Old World masters featured in ‘Men of the Cloth’
A beloved tailor from Ardmore, Pennsylvania, who died three years ago, is now a subject of a documentary film about master tailors around ...
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Founder moving on after 27 years of keeping Philly folk traditions from slipping away [photos]
Folklorist Debora Kodish founded the Philadelphia Folklore Project 27 years ago as a place where people congregate, exhibit, exchange ide ...
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Fahey fans keep American primitive guitar tradition alive in Philadelphia [video]
Just as folk music was exploding on the counter-culture scene in the 1960s, John Fahey started playing solo, steel-string acoustic guitar ...
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Review: Surprise, surprise! ‘Ritu Comes Home’
The funny new play called “Ritu Comes Home,” is a paradox: It’s as urbane as it is juvenile. That’s because its m ...
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