Arts & Entertainment
Little angels of the ‘Nutcracker’
For more than 50 years, George Balanchine’s “Nutcracker” has been the gateway for thousands of first-time ballet dancer
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13 years ago
U.S. and Phila. lose bid to host World Cup
Hundreds of soccer fans crowded into the downtown Irish bar Tir Na Nog Thursday morning to watch the president of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, cru
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13 years ago
The Eastern State Penitentiary is taking a page from the fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel,” wherein hapless children are lured t
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13 years ago
A North Philadelphia youth football team is headed to Florida to play this weekend in the Pop Warner Super Bowl.
But for the
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13 years ago
Poets help hone HIV testing message
A mobile HIV testing station will be set up in Love Park Wednesday, World AIDS Day. The voluntary AIDS screening will be accompanie
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13 years ago
North Philly Pop Warner team Superbowl bound
The Eagles aren’t the only Philadelphia football team that’s drawing national attention: a team of 10 to 12 year olds
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13 years ago
Emancipation Proclamation copy visits on the way to auction
Before it hits the auction block next week, a souvenir copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Abraham Lincoln spent one afternoo
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13 years ago
As we edge toward December, some Philadelphians are thinking about what was so funny about 2010. The popular holiday theater revue “
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13 years ago
Two Center City holiday displays glow brightly
Yes, Virginia. There is a Macy’s holiday display. The Center City location of the department store continues a half-century traditi
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13 years ago
Cake or pie? Heck, have both in one
This holiday, a Philadelphia bakery is proving you can have your cake – chocolate and vanilla – as well as your apple and pum
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13 years ago
It was a roller derby reunion of the highest order last weekend in Philadelphia.
Legends mingled with novices at the Penn Jersey R
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13 years ago
Poetry unites international teens
Some poems seem to just appear on the page, but most are laboriously built, one word at a time.
This week, students at one of the
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13 years ago
Brothers are sweet on tradition
For some people in Philadelphia, the holidays aren’t complete without the Berley brothers’ clear-toy candies. The treats mold
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13 years ago
An exhibit of hand-drawn maps is now on view at Arcadia University in Glenside.
Many of the maps were quickly scrawled on notebook
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13 years ago
$45 million gift to Drexel is largest to any Pa. business school
A Drexel University graduate has given $45 million to his alma mater. The largest single gift to any business school in Pennsylvani
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13 years ago