Arts & Entertainment
Japanese Noh theater comes to city for first time
You can’t tell by looking at the trees along Kelly Drive, but the annual Cherry Blossom Festival is officially under way. ...
14 years ago
Woman from iconic napalm photo speaks at Haverford
Haverford College is getting a visit from a woman who–for many–embodies the brutality of war. Kim Phuc Phan Thi was ni ...
14 years ago
Inside the stone ruins of the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia are the remains of a chaplain’s office. Inside of that are ...
14 years ago
Free Library scales back expansion plans
For years, visitors to the Free Library of Philadelphia on Race Street have seen a model of what the future building will look like with ...
14 years ago
In time of trouble, Japanese students create art, forge bonds
Less than a week after a group of Japanese art students arrived at the University of the Arts for an exchange program, their home country ...
14 years ago
Holocaust survivors take part in Shoah project
Itka Zygmuntowicz spent all of her teenage years in a Nazi concentration camp. Long afterward, in 1994, she sat down with an interviewer ...
14 years ago
South by Southwest may be losing direction
The annual “South by Southwest” music festival begins in Austin, Texas, Friday. For Philadelphia musicians, it’s an essent ...
14 years ago
Forest gumption: Goal to plant a million trees
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society has launched a tree-planting program with an ambitious goal: 1 million trees throughout the tri-st ...
14 years ago
Protest over mining blooms amid flower show
Visitors to the Philadelphia International Flower Show Wednesday got something they never expected: a protest. Nine people from a ...
14 years ago
Arts groups assess budget cuts
In their Center City conference room, the staff of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance was plugged in. While watching a video proj ...
14 years ago
Closed churches have some success in plea to Vatican
Nine Catholic churches in the Diocese of Allentown may not close after all following a decision by the Vatican. It’s the latest ste ...
14 years ago
State-of-the-art Convention Center devoid of art
Through the wall of glass towering over Broad Street, Convention Center visitors can see across the street into the windows of the scul ...
14 years ago
Expanded Convention Center opens
The expansion of the Pennsylvania Convention Center is now complete. On Friday, Philadelphia officials cut the ribbon on the $786 milli ...
14 years ago
Flower show imparts Parisian bouquet
The Philadelphia International Flower Show will open Sunday. Taking up 10 acres inside the Convention Center, it’s one of th ...
14 years ago
Magazines bow in print, online
With more journalism going online, magazines are trying to figure out where they should live. One locally published maga ...
14 years ago