Arts & Entertainment
Array of Philadelphia choirs lend grace notes to play with tragic core
A play has opened at the Annenberg Center in West Philadelphia with a central character – a choir ensemble – that will be performed b ...
12 years ago
ListenReview: After ‘Macbeth,’ it’s back indoors
It’s difficult enough to produce a plausible “Macbeth” on a stage inside a theater, so hats off to Revolution Shakespea ...
12 years ago
West Philly mural tells tales of teens searching for home
On 42 Street in West Philadelphia, a block off Lancaster Avenue, a green lawn marks the place where half a dozen houses once stood. ...
12 years ago
ListenReview: “The Events” and the backstory
You never hear anything about the terrible real event that led Scottish playwright David Greig to create “The Events,” which ...
12 years ago
Jewish congregations celebrate harvest season with Sukkot holiday [photos]
Some are the size of small sheds. Others as big as a large wedding tent. But what’s more important than the size of the sukk ...
12 years ago
ListenSalute to activist’s quest for change sheds light on woman once a fixture on Penn campus [photos]
The life of Kathy Chang, a radical peace activist who went by “Kathy Change,” will be presented as “Chang(e),” a ...
12 years ago
ListenAndrew Wyeth Studio designated National Historic Landmark
The Andrew Wyeth Studio in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, was named as a National ...
12 years ago
For these Mormons, getting Historical Society of Pa.’s trove of records online is religious work
Inside its building in Center City Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania has records predating Philadelphia. Twenty-one mi ...
12 years ago
ListenCarol Burnett gets Jimmy Stewart museum award
Actress and comedian Carol Burnett has been honored by a Pennsylvania museum dedicated to the actor she calls her idol — Jimmy Stewart. ...
12 years ago
Scraps of graffiti left by troops on voyage to Vietnam now at Seaport Museum
“This bunk is the death bed,” wrote a soldier while on a troop ship heading to Vietnam in 1967, scrawling the letters on the ...
12 years ago
First for Friday, October 3, 2014
Citizen’s Police Academy Random shootings and unsolved crimes are a concern for many Wilmington residents. Some of those ...
Air Date: October 3, 2014
From furry creatures to skinless animals, Franklin offers anatomy lessons [photos]
The Franklin Institute is opening “Body Worlds: Animal Inside Out,” an exhibition featuring dead animals that have been flaye ...
12 years ago
Week-long bike tour launches from Philly’s Schuylkill Banks Boardwalk
This morning the annual Week-A-Year Tour of the East Coast Greenway kicks off in Philadelphia. Forty-one bicyclists will begin the ...
12 years ago
Review: Nailing ‘Arcadia,’ brilliance, blather and all
It’s hard to tell what’s more impressive about “Arcadia” – Tom Stoppard’s brilliant boil-over of ideas or ...
12 years ago
Schuylkill River Trail ‘boardwalk’ opens [video]
The new extension to the Schuylkill River Trail in Philadelphia opens today. After two years of construction, the Schuylkill Banks ...
12 years ago


