Arts & Entertainment
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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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 ...
14 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 ...
14 years ago
As we edge toward December, some Philadelphians are thinking about what was so funny about 2010. The popular holiday theater revue “ ...
14 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 ...
14 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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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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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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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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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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$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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Thousands tune in to proposal on ‘Love Letters’ tour
A SEPTA train ride last month through West Philadelphia was the stage for an unforgettable marriage proposal. Now, nearly ten thousand pe ...
14 years ago
Local arts project wins prestigious prize
Last weekend the Philadelphia non-profit Fresh Artists was awarded the Purpose Prize, a $50,000 award given to a senior citizen contrib ...
14 years ago
Inside museum of Jewish History
The newest addition to Independence Mall is finally finished. The National Museum of American Jewish History had its coming-out party thi ...
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Gehry to remodel art museum hall
Philadelphia can now boast it has its own Frank Gehry, but it’s underground. The Art Museum has broken ground on the latest ...
14 years ago