
Arts & Entertainment
Elfreth’s Alley backstory yields clues to life of Philly immigrants
Here are some of the 6,000 objects Deirdre Kelleher has dug up in the lot behind the Elfreth’s Alley Museum: Clay marbles. Buttons. ...
12 years ago
Germantown gallery show gathers local community
Photographer Tieshka Smith has been taking photographs of Germantown for two years, documenting the changes in the area, but ...
12 years ago
Review: ‘Noises Off’ and on, too
By now Michael Frayn’s farce about a dumb troupe of actors called “Noises Off,” which opened in Britain in 1982 and hit ...
12 years ago
Review: ‘The Importance of Being Earnest,’ earnestly
For a play as juicy as Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” – among the greatest comedies in our language ...
12 years ago
Porn and aspartame’s artistic union
Leslie Friedman loves Coke Zero. A lot. For her installation “Tastier,” she fabricated dozens of giant cans of Coke Ze ...
12 years ago
Delaware’s solar future A few years ago, Delaware’s renewable energy hopes were focused on off-shore wind. Now that tho ...
Air Date: July 12, 2013
Ex-Barnes Foundation president opens Collingswood gallery
A past president of the Barnes Foundation is opening a small retail art gallery in Collingswood, N.J. Saturday. Kimberly Camp, a c ...
12 years ago
QFest features story of brutal attack, forgiveness and the will to live in “Where I Am”
Robert Drake is a novelist and literary editor from Philadelphia who fell in love with an Irish doctor, and moved to Dublin to start a ne ...
12 years ago
Fans, comedians try to save the Laff House
A longtime South Street staple that once served as a launching platform for comedians like Kevin Hart and Michael Blackson closed its doo ...
12 years ago
Encouraging first-time art collectors — and visits to Philly
In 13 years, Bridgette Mayer has built a successful art gallery in Philadelphia’s Washington Square. Her clients and artists span t ...
12 years ago
Garden artist plants Society Hill’s iconic window boxes [photos]
Elizabeth Jacoby had the back of her gray SUV stuffed with leafy and flowering plan ...
12 years ago

As First Fridays stretch out over weekend, Old City offers sidewalk event
Normally, the music venue The Tin Angel on Second Street, and its restaurant, Serrano, close in July. That’s when the summer doldru ...
12 years ago
First Look The Delaware legislative year always end with a late night flurry of bills. This year the social agenda was topped by ...
Air Date: July 5, 2013
Seeking LTR. Current girlfriend need not apply.
After teaching a writing class one summer, Diana and one of her students started dating. Soon enough Diana was in love. The only pro ...
12 years ago
ListenCurtis’ legendary reputation draws 25,000 to first online class [photos]
The renown Curtis Institute of music decided to experiment with an online course and put Beethoven specialist Jonathan Bliss on the progr ...
12 years ago