Arts & Entertainment

Ban the Box Eliminating the ‘Check here if you’ve been convicted of a crime’ box on job applications is the go ...

A Philadelphia theater company has created an alternative campus tour that tells kids what they “really” need to know. ...

Did you hear the one about the conquering Roman soldiers who were heading home but ended up in Tokyo? They lost their focus, but got a de ...

Each month, NewsWorks presents a story from the First Person Arts podcast. Today, Jamie J. Brunson tells us how she discov ...

Love is a drug but beware the awful side effects. Wait…no!…that can’t be right. Let’s try again: Love and deceit ...

This special edition of First features interviews with various members of the General Assembly on a variety of topics such as th ...

Performance companies in Philadelphia soon may be able to tap into a centralized library of props and scenery following the Walnut Street ...

A native of the Philadelphia suburbs is the co-creator and co-star of a sit-com on Comedy Central with a familiar theme: two young women, ...

The movie “The Monuments Men,” released this weekend, tells the story of a World War II military unit responsible for finding ...

The Library Company of Philadelphia has launched, “That’s So Gay: Outing Early America.” The exhibition suggests early ...

Wilmington crime plan A year ago, Wilmington Mayor Dennis Williams beefed up patrols in an effort to get a handle on shootings a ...

If it takes a village to raise a child, then it took a tiny roller rink in Frenchtown, New Jersey, perched on a hill above the Delaware R ...

What happens when, say, Rumpelstiltskin and the candy-coated Hansel and Gretl become linked in the same story? You get a Grimms fairy-tal ...

We’ve just been through two winter storms in less that a week, and another is on the way. But the Pennsylvania Horticultural ...

Frank Sherlock, a mostly self-taught poet born and raised in Philadelphia, will be the city’s official poet for the next two years. ...