Arts & Entertainment
Facebook faceoff: Artist embarks on ‘social networking stress test’
When does Facebook stop being your friend and start being a tyrant?
Philadelphia-based performance artist David Kim is trying to f
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Earth, Wind & Fire and The Roots to usher in Philadelphia’s 4th of July
Philadelphia’s July 4th festivities will be mixing hip hop and soul.
“Earth Wind and Fire in Philadelphia for the Four
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Memory of Philly’s Jazz roots lives on
Mayor Michael Nutter has declared April Jazz Appreciation Month in Philadelphia.
But jazz in Philadelphia has seen better days.
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Philadelphia’s hottest ticket is the public library.
Comedian Tina Fey sold out the Free Library in rock-star fashion when t
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‘Let Me Down Easy’ brings health-care stories to stage
There an old George Burns joke that Burns told when he was old. It goes like this:
Burns is doing some shows in Las Vegas and stay
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Students make video odes to the elements
Daniyal Khan does not think of himself as a scientist. The junior at Berlin High School in Connecticut is more interested in shooting and
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Photographer evokes ‘Ephemeral Existence’ in images of urban Japan
As Japan reels from the aftershocks of its devastating earthquake, an art gallery in Rittenhouse Square is exhibiting large-scale photo
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Philadelphia’s cherry blossoms near bloom for festival
While cherry blossoms are out now in Cherry Hill, N.J., in Philadelphia they are only just starting to emerge. The organizers of the ann
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Gritty in pink: ‘Yarnbomber’ outfits iconic Rocky statue
The statue of Rocky Balboa in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art was outfitted with a pink sweater over the weekend. Local graffiti
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Suspenseful ‘Source Code’ shows off a versatile Gyllenhaal
We cannot change the past. But in Source Code, a film opening this weekend, director Duncan Jones reminds us we can learn from i
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In time of war, ‘Ajax’ resounds with modern audiences
“Ajax, Ajax…my name is a sad song. Who would have thought it would someday become the sound a man makes in despair.”
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A master mascot, Phillie Phanatic energizes crowds
At 48 years old, Jeff Lecious still gets a laugh out of the Phillie Phanatic.
“I remember the first game the Phanatic appear
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Philadelphia enlists homeowners to help spruce up the city
It takes about $435 to plant a tree along the sidewalk–that accounts for the truck, a guy with a shovel, and the tree itself. But g
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Setting sale: USS Olympia now on the market
The USS Olympia is now officially on the market.
The caretaker of the floating museum–the Independence Seaport Museum in Phi
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Opponents again try to stop Barnes move
The construction of the Barnes Museum on the Parkway in Philadelphia is well under way, and the neighborhood group opposed to moving the
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