Arts & Entertainment

Oct. 17–20: Philadelphia Film Festival, Debbie Gibson in New Jersey and “The Winter’s Tale” gala in Delaware are among the weekend’s highlights.

Musicians of the orchestra made a public display of absentee voting to encourage others to make a plan.

Student filmmakers from North Philadelphia document gun violence in a new PBS documentary airing tonight on WHYY-TV 12.

The West Philly company is using a garden bed to urge people to petition state legislators into recognizing the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania.

Vampire stakes, exorcism chairs and dolls that move: The Vampire and Paranormal Museum in Bucks County displays a rich history of the supernatural.

Director Bill Nicoletti’s “The Philly Sound…Heard ‘Round the World” will screen at this year’s festival. The film documents the history of Sigma Sounds Studio.

The Curtis marks its 100th birthday this weekend with concerts and an open house of its historic Rittenhouse Square campus.

Through 10th and Race streets, Chinatown residents, restaurants and artists gave visitors an escape from the everyday experiences of Philadelphia.

Twenty-six years after the savage killing of Matthew Shepard, a theatrical oratorio makes its Pennsylvania premiere at the Mann Center.

Oct. 10–13: OURfest in Philly, Atlantic City Comedy Festival in New Jersey and Diamond State Black Film Festival in Delaware are among the weekend’s highlights.

It was a bitter exit for the NL East champion Phillies, who won 95 games and finished six ahead of the wild-card Mets during the regular season.

The two-part, four-hour documentary on Leonardo da Vinci will air on WHYY Channel 12 on Nov. 18 and 19 at 8 p.m.

Game 4 is Wednesday at Citi Field, with All-Star Ranger Suárez scheduled to start for Philadelphia against fellow lefty José Quintana.

Cissy Houston died Monday morning in her New Jersey home while under hospice care for Alzheimer’s disease, according to her daughter-in-law Pat Houston.