Arts & Entertainment
Friendly competition raises the stakes at 11th annual Latkepalooza
For the only time in thousands of years, the first day of Hanukkah falls on Thanksgiving Day. This will not happen again in your lifetime ...
11 years ago
Holiday farce ‘No Reservations’ debuts at Adrienne
This weekend a Jewish humor writer will make his playwriting debut with a holiday farce based on the biblical nativity story. Josh ...
11 years ago
ListenNew Hope musician’s award-winning film offers experience of Tourette’s
A small film by a New Hope musician, about living a creative life with Tourette’s syndrome, had won an award at the Bucks County Fi ...
11 years ago
ListenReview: ‘Sophie Tucker’ at the Walnut, after all these years
When Sophie Tucker was 25 and just becoming a star, she reportedly brought down the house during a show called ...
11 years ago
ListenFirst for Friday, November 22, 2013
Eastside rising As the city of Wilmington meets and surpasses a record for shootings, city leaders continue their efforts to cha ...
Air Date: November 22, 2013
With three concerts at Penn museum, Relache begins revival
This weekend, one of Philadelphia’s most prominent new music ensembles will perform the ...
11 years ago
Chestnut Hill’s Woodmere Art Museum to announce plans for expansion
Since the Barnes Foundation moved its galleries out of Lower Merion to the Parkway in downtown Philadelphia, the Woodmere Art Museum sees ...
11 years ago
Enigmatic tiles inspire Philly rapper’s ‘Toynbee Suite’
For more than 20 years, an anonymous person has been busily sinking into the streets of Philadelphia a riddle about resurrecting the dead ...
11 years ago
ListenReview: The flash (and not) of ‘Flashdance’
This just in, from the stage of “Flashdance: The Musical” at the Academy of Music: The three majestic rivers that define the ...
11 years ago
Review: Two times around with ‘I Am My Own Wife’
Among several neat things about Charlie DelMarcelle’s current run at Theatre Horizon, as the singularly eccentric German transvesti ...
11 years ago
Assembling an ‘aural history’ of Philly punk culture
Thirteen year-old Rodney Linderman discovered punk in 1978, growing up in Coatesville, Pa., when he saw a picture of The Dead Boys in his ...
11 years ago
Review: ‘Elf’ dropped to Earth, as a holiday stage musical
The movie “Elf” is a sweet little holiday heart-tug. So is the musical taken from the movie and now on the Walnut Street Thea ...
11 years ago
ListenFirst for Friday, November 15, 2013
Common Core The way kids learn in school these days is nothing like it was when today’s adults were in school. With the i ...
Air Date: November 15, 2013
The less glamorous side of running a Center City art gallery
Imagine going to work each day in one of Philadelphia’s most fashionable neighborhoods, in an airy, pristine space, surrounded by f ...
11 years ago
ListenAfter children’s festival, restored Roxy’s first picture show will be a while
Twenty-four hours before the Philadelphia Film Society opens the Roxy Theater on Sansom Street in ...
11 years ago