
Arts & Entertainment
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 ...
12 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 ...
12 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 ...
12 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 ...
12 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 ...
12 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 ...
12 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 ...
12 years ago
Review: Class and race in a fiery ‘Stick Fly’
The glib fast-talk in “Stick Fly” – and there’s a ton of it in the richly plotted play now at the Arden Theatre – m ...
12 years ago
Nerdvemberfest: ‘The slightly competitive equivalent of family dinner’
A suburban Pennsylvania Holiday Inn will host princesses, dragons and role-playing in the Star Wars galaxy this weekend. More than 100 ga ...
12 years ago
ListenOrganizers count on new Kimmel art installation to be smashing success
Since the Kimmel Center opened 12 years ago, it has struggled to make its interior plaza hospitable. So, for the next few months, visitor ...
12 years ago
Philly’s palatial Boyd Theatre faces sequel as eight small cinemas
The Florida-based company iPic Theaters has plans for the dilapidated Boyd Theatre on Chestnut Street in Center City Philadelphia. ...
12 years ago
Cutting the ribbon on Arden Theatre’s second building
At the 25-year-old Arden Theatre Company on Second Street, things were getting really tight inside its building with common areas and two ...
12 years ago
ListenCollective Citywide exhibit celebrates Philly’s contemporary art scene
Billy Dufala stood like Godzilla, towering over a miniature version of his own warehouse studio. “We’re in the trusses ...
12 years ago
Review: Weighing in on ‘Hands Across Veronica’
The fuzzy-brained comedy “Hands Across Veronica,” at Walking Fish Theatre in Kensington, is supposed to make us think in some ...
12 years ago