Arts & Entertainment

Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar visited a Philadelphia high school Tuesday morning to show his new documentary. The NBA’s all ...

Two violinists playing Mozart were jostling for elbow room near a cheese monger while the happy couples exchanged vows beneath a sign for ...

On February 14, 1946, America’s love affair with the computer began. That is when John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert of the ...

“A green youth from a country village, tired of having young ladies fall captive to his good looks, desiring to be loved for his go ...

The missing mummies at the Penn Museum will be there soon. Last week, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Ant ...

An empty retail space in the Gallery Mall in Center City Philadelphia is hosting a month of dance. Every weekday in February, the public ...

A former bicycle shop in Mount Airy has been transformed into a temporary art gallery as ephemeral as a paper moon. Edward Maeder ...

Julius Wright is taking hip-hop down to its bones. The South Philadelphian, calling himself the Lyrical God, uses ballpoint pens to bang ...

Jonathan Squibb — aka “Super Squibb” — is not a professional athlete. But he has learned to talk like one. ...

The idea has been 10 years in the making. It was the Convention Center that finally took it over the hump. The Pennsylvania Academ ...

On Tuesday, the SS United States Conservancy bought the SS United States (or what remains of it – the interior is gutted) for $3 m ...

The underdog has brought home a bone. Jon Foy spent 5 1/2 years making a documentary about a marginal subject. “Resurrect De ...

If you play the Philadelphia parlor game, “Where in the world is ‘The Gross Clinic’?” — it’s now at PAF ...

David Mamet’s new play gets at what we talk about when we talk about race; it’s full of evasions, justifications and agendas. ...

Garland of Letters, a new-age, incense-burning bookstore on South Street, Philadelphia, has been around for more than 30 years. Its owner ...