Arts & Entertainment
Philadelphia enlists homeowners to help spruce up the city
It takes about $435 to plant a tree along the sidewalk–that accounts for the truck, a guy with a shovel, and the tree itself. But g
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12 years ago
Setting sale: USS Olympia now on the market
The USS Olympia is now officially on the market.
The caretaker of the floating museum–the Independence Seaport Museum in Phi
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12 years ago
Opponents again try to stop Barnes move
The construction of the Barnes Museum on the Parkway in Philadelphia is well under way, and the neighborhood group opposed to moving the
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12 years ago
Doctor prescribes ‘Waiting Room Reader’ as impatient treatment
A book publisher in New Jersey is trying to crack the doctor’s office market with an anthology of poetry designed to reduce anxiety
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12 years ago
Civil discussion urged in ‘Can We Talk?’
This weekend, the National Constitution Center will host a public forum about the role of civility in a democracy. It aims to launch a di
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13 years ago
100-year-old tragedy still reverberates
Friday marks the 100-year anniversary of the deadly fire in New York City that brought about workplace safety laws. In 1911, a fire in
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13 years ago
Play’s the thing to bring Japanese moms together
There is a Japanese version of Facebook called Mixi.com, where Japanese mothers in Philadelphia found each other to form playgroups for t
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13 years ago
Space exploration: Matching theater companies, venues
It may be that “all the world’s a stage”–as per Shakespeare–but in Philadelphia, many theater companies are
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13 years ago
Farm springs up on North Philly lot to supply restaurant chain
There are untold numbers of urban gardens in Philadelphia: some are trespassing; some are large neighborhood collectives; some major oper
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13 years ago
Japanese Noh theater comes to city for first time
You can’t tell by looking at the trees along Kelly Drive, but the annual Cherry Blossom Festival is officially under way.
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Woman from iconic napalm photo speaks at Haverford
Haverford College is getting a visit from a woman who–for many–embodies the brutality of war.
Kim Phuc Phan Thi was ni
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Inside the stone ruins of the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia are the remains of a chaplain’s office. Inside of that are
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Free Library scales back expansion plans
For years, visitors to the Free Library of Philadelphia on Race Street have seen a model of what the future building will look like with
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13 years ago
In time of trouble, Japanese students create art, forge bonds
Less than a week after a group of Japanese art students arrived at the University of the Arts for an exchange program, their home country
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Holocaust survivors take part in Shoah project
Itka Zygmuntowicz spent all of her teenage years in a Nazi concentration camp. Long afterward, in 1994, she sat down with an interviewer
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