
Arts & Entertainment
Holy Week, contemplative for some, marks busiest time for Christ Church organist
With this year’s overlapping of Passover and Holy Week, many area residents are sharing a period of contemplation and somber reflec ...
11 years ago
ListenSneak peek: New stuff, locally grown
Next season’s production lineups are floating in like spring breezes. The area’s 50-plus professional stage companies – the ...
11 years ago
12 outstanding ovens that prove Philly knows pizza [photos]
Over the past few years there’s been a full-on renaissance when it comes to Philadelphia’s pizza scene. We did some digg ...
11 years ago
Jazz pops up at Reading Terminal Market
During the Wednesday lunch rush at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, shoppers were surprised by a sudden onslaught of saxophon ...
11 years ago
Museum of antiquity emphasizes current history of Native Americans [photos]
What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the words Native American? Is it old movies? Tonto? Protests? Drumming ...
11 years ago
ListenScraps of metal, sounds of Metal Eyes combine in ‘waste music’ installation
At a current intallation at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, two guys will be standing on these bales of shredded metal ...
11 years ago
ListenAcademy of Natural Sciences puts itself on exhibit through dioramas
This weekend, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will open an exhibition of dioramas, revealing how dioramas are made. ...
11 years ago
First for Friday, April 11, 2014
First Look: Brown vs. Board plus 60 The landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown vs. Board of Education came out in May 1954. A ...
Air Date: April 11, 2014
Philadelphia Pythians, all-black baseball team, mixed athletics with advocacy after the Civil War
Just after the Civil War, all-black baseball teams began springing up. Philadelphia’s team was called the Pythians, and it was led ...
11 years ago
ListenNew Jersey illustrator makes a visual experience of Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’ with new book
Walt Whitman’s iconic 1855 poem “Song of Myself” has stood the test of time and is now regarded as one of the most accl ...
11 years ago
ListenExploring paradox of Jefferson as freedom fighter, slave owner at Constitution Center
The legacy of slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello estate in Virginia is the focus of an exhibition now on view at the National ...
11 years ago
Shakespeare army searching for a few good extras
War may be hell, but in theater it can be pretty fun. “We made a lot of sounds. We looked really angry and physical,” ...
11 years ago
Sylvester Stallone’s fictional character Rocky is once again fighting in the ring, this time in a musical that’s settled onto ...
11 years ago
ListenLive on-stage documentaries hit Philly, including ‘karaoke rock opera’
Two filmmakers are showing Philadelphia new ways to make documentaries, by taking them to the stage in a hybrid of music performance, the ...
11 years ago
ListenFirst for Friday, April 4, 2014
Power struggle Hailed as a cutting-edge technology, the proposed stand-alone Newark data center on UD’s STAR campus has be ...
Air Date: April 4, 2014