
Arts & Entertainment
Great-great-grandson’s expectations high for Dickens’ celebration
The Free Library of Philadelphia will be celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens with a visit from the Victorian novelist’ ...
13 years ago
Ali honored with Liberty Medal for victories outside the ring
Last night, Muhammad Ali was in Philadelphia to accept the Liberty Medal at the National Constitution Center. The boxing champion ...
13 years ago
Out of bankruptcy, Philadelphia Orchestra invests high hopes in new music director
This week, tickets for the Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2012-2013 season went on sale at the Kimmel Center box office. It’s the f ...
13 years ago
Globe Dye Works cast as venue for ambitious sculptural installations
For a few weeks, the old Globe Dye Works factory in the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia is hosting industrial-sized sculpture. ...
13 years ago
Renovation set for field that was part of venue for Philly concert
Much of the grassy areas around the Benjamin Franklin Parkway has fallen victim to a perfect storm of a major concert event immediately f ...
13 years ago
In Photos: WHYY Connections Salon
The NewsWorks Connections Salon kicked off the second annual WHYY Connections Festival Thursday night. More than 100 members, guest ...
13 years ago
Brandywine Workshop artists making an impression in Philly
The Brandywine Workshop is celebrating its 40th year of providing fine-art printing assistance and training to artists and would-be artis ...
13 years ago
Seaport Museum chronicles Delaware River disasters
The Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia is remembering the long and lurid history of disasters on the Delaware River. Here ...
13 years ago
No more sweltering at Kimmel Center’s rooftop garden
The architecture plan for the entire Kimmel Center is a box-in-a-box: both Verizon Hall and the Perelman Theater are their own self-conta ...
13 years ago
Gad-zukes! That’s a lot of zucchini
If you have neighbors or colleagues who are gardeners, it’s the season those green baseball bats keep showing up. They’r ...
13 years ago
Report from the Philly Fringe: ‘Barbie Blended’
For 16 years, the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival or Fringe Festival has been known for its unique, cutting-edge and unfiltered performan ...
13 years ago
Philadelphia mural blends WPA style with modern tales of working
Long after Labor Day parades are over, one art project designed to tell the history of Philadelphia workers will live on. “H ...
13 years ago
Retrospective highlights work of former luminary on Philly art scene
The Lancaster Museum of Art will be exhibiting a career retrospective of former Philadelphia artist, ...
13 years ago
Gunning for game show fame: My quest for a shot on ‘The Price is Right’
Who wouldn’t want to be on “The Price is Right”? To just be a regular person guessing the prices of regular stuff. Win ...
13 years ago
Collingswood woman helps define the words of our time
As an associate editor at Merriam Webster, Kory Stamper reads a lot of stuff. “It’s really a good mix of everything,” s ...
13 years ago