Arts & Entertainment
Women getting into the game of video animation in new Moore College program
This fall, Moore College of Art in Philadelphia will allow students to focus on video game animation. The nation’s only all- ...
13 years ago
Review: Then and now, the lesbians of ‘Cold’
The Bird Hole, a fictional lesbian bar where the entire 90 minutes of the new play “Cold,” is set in a single scene, was once ...
13 years ago
Memoirs. We read them all the time. Blue Nights by Joan Didion. Bossypants by Tina Fey. Night by Elie Wiese ...
Air Date: August 12, 2013
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Review: Martha Graham Cracker, a Philadelphia institution 8 years running
Philadelphia drag performer Martha Graham Cracker celebrated eight years of kooky, and maybe kinky, performances Thursday night. Her ...
13 years ago
First for Friday, August 9, 2013
First Conversations: Senator Chris Coons While Congress is in August recess, Delaware Senator Chris Coons stopped ...
Air Date: August 9, 2013
‘Cliff and Clair’ take a family vacation—without the family
Each month, NewsWorks presents a story from the First Person Arts Podcast. In this edition, R. Eric Thomas recalls his favo ...
13 years ago
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Webcam broadcasts from Andy Warhol’s grave
The Andy Warhol Museum has launched a live video feed from the pop artist’s gravesite to honor his 85th birthday. The projec ...
13 years ago
Opera Philadelphia reaches out to new audiences with portable performance
This fall, Opera Philadelphia will yank opera out of the opera house and go into places where opera is usually not seen, or heard. ...
13 years ago
Monday at City Hall, a poetic take on the Trayvon Martin case
Since George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida, many Philadelphians have demonstrated publicly. ...
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Putting a new spin on ‘Brother from Another Planet’ in one-of-a-kind Philly performance
This weekend, DJ and musician King Britt will pull apart the 1984 John Sayles film, “The Brother from Another Planet,” and re ...
13 years ago
First for Friday, August 2, 2013
The Next Level Since leading the University of Delaware Blue Hens to the Sweet 16 this March, Elena Delle D ...
Air Date: August 2, 2013
Review: ‘Measure for Measure’ and a sense of proportion
And now, a special summer nod to Fontaine Syer, the director who has done something wonderful at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival fo ...
13 years ago
Philadelphia flutist’s yearlong tribute to Debussy nears final notes
On Monday, in the living room of her home in Logan Square in Philadelphia, flutist Mimi Stillman played Claude Debussy’s “Syr ...
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Philly auditions for the Apollo bring on the best and the peculiar
The famous Apollo Theater in Harlem was in town on Saturday to scope out Philadelphia talent for its weekly stage show, “Amateur Ni ...
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Cartoonist uses old school technique to produce modern art
Cartoonist Jamar Nicholas, a native of West Philadelphia, knows a thing or two about paper. So the fact that he’s drawing hi ...
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