Arts & Entertainment

LEO. Fred Astaire danced on the floor, the walls and the ceiling of a room in the 1951 movie, “Royal Wedding.̶ ...

Harry Bertoia (1915-1978) might be most well-known for his modernist wire furniture (the “Diamond Chair”), but he spent most of the l ...

To mark Constitution Day, the 226th anniversary of the Sept. 17 signing of the United States Constitution, the National Constitution Cent ...

The Ballad of Joe Hill. You may have dreamt you saw Joe Hill last night, just like the ballad says – but you didn̵ ...

Sea level rise awareness You’ve heard us talk a lot on this broadcast about sea level change. There are experts in ...

The high-voltage production of the musical “In the Heights,” opening Walnut Street Theatre’s 205th season, is a supersonic trick: I ...

The Fringe Festival is just one of a myriad of arts organizations that call Philadelphia home. But for these organizations to survive and ...

As Philadelphia embarks on the second week of the 17th annual Fringe Festival, this weekend features performances of a perennial Fringe f ...

“Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background of countless minor scenes and interiors,” w ...

Poet David Livewell spent his childhood in Lower Kensington. He’s the 2012 winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry for “Sha ...

Life and Times. The folks at the Nature Theater of Oklahoma asked a woman they knew to tell them her life’s story ...

I came into the Free Library’s Central Branch only 45 minutes after putting down my Nook, on which I’d been reading a detecti ...

Hillary Clinton received the Liberty Award in Philadelphia on Tuesday night at a ceremony on the lawn of the National Constitution Center ...

Here’s what you get when you mix over-hyped masculinity, comic book heroes and the Philadelphia Parking Authority: the sock-’ ...

A small publishing company in Philadelphia is looking at farmers as a business model. Similar to “community supported agricu ...