Arts & Entertainment
Fleisher van: art classes on wheels
If you’re high-brow, it looks like a painting by Piet Mondrian. If you’re low-brow, it looks like the Partridge Family bus.
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Honoring each Philadelphia homicide victim with art
Five local artists are working to memorialize each Philadelphian killed in 2012. But with 78 homicides already and the total growing more
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13 years ago
Grammy-winning jazz bassist back in Philly to help young musicians
A contemporary jazz great is coming back home to Philadelphia to teach high school kids.
Grammy-winning bass player Christian McBr
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Vineland’s historic Landis Theater now under Appel Farm’s management
The historic Landis Theater in Vineland, N.J., is under new management. The 700-seat art deco movie palace has been struggling to stay af
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Flamenco Festival opens traditional form to new expression
Elba Hevia y Vaca wants to pull flamenco into the 21st century.
“Traditional flamenco is very limited — a wonderfully
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The other war with a big anniversary this year
Events surroounding the 150th anniversary of the Civil War are in danger of eclipsing the anniversary of another American military action
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A second act for Flower Show plants
The 2012 Philadelphia International Flower Show is now a memory, but the plants live on. The tropicals that dazzled on the showroom floor
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National Museum of American Jewish History taps new leader
The National Museum of American Jewish History on Independence Mall will soon have a new leader.
The museum’s director, Ivy
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Philly invites yarn-bomber to outfit city property
Philadelphia is in the middle of a monthlong art festival celebrating textile and fabric art — Fiber Philadelphia 2012.
City Hal
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A ‘Braith’lessly funny look at fame with 1812 Productions
“Philadelphia’s favorite stage couple,” Tony Braithwaite and Jennifer Childs, have paired up again for a delightfully w
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13 years ago
Work by formerly homeless artists on display at University of the Arts
For the last five years, the Starbucks coffee shop on Broad Street has had its own artist-in-residence.
Dennis Jones parks himself
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Eastern State Penitentiary opens up to ‘spiritual occasion’ of stained glass
As it spruces up for spring, the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia is installing new stained-glass windows.
The 183-year-
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Final lament for Irish immigrants treated roughly in life, death
Spring hasn’t yet sprung, but West Laurel Hill Cemetery turned green Friday.
About 300 mourners — almost all wearing t
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Irish immigrant rail laborers to rest in peace 180 years after death
The remains of bodies in a mass grave uncovered in Malvern, Pa., will be buried Friday.
In 1832, an estimated 57 people died while
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Philadelphia children’s book illustrator continues to hand-sketch illustrations
While some illustrators today are switching over to digital programs to help generate their drawings, Philadelphia children’s book
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