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Arts & Entertainment

The Santa experience — during the rest of the year

Today–the day after Christmas–the holiday begins to deflate. Stores are taking down decorations, and Santa Claus is packing u ...

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Wilma Theater remembers Vaclav Havel, Czech writer and politician

The Wilma Theater in Center City Philadelphia is remembering playwright and politician Vaclav Havel who died Sunday. The theater principa ...

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Recalling a once-famous 19th century Germantown kidnapping

The investigation of the famous 1874 child kidnapping of Charley Ross comes to life in Carrie Hagen’s new book “We is Got Him ...

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Visual Arts

Wedding morning: The world wears white; the boys play some street ball

On Rachel Levy’s wedding day, the world wore white. Early that morning, snow was general over the Delaware Valley. It had fa ...

14 years ago

Visual Arts

Rachel in love, with a frosty beverage in hand

A few blocks away from the Omni hotel, Aaron O’Meara continued to gaze at Rachel Levy with lovestruck eyes, as she downed a very sm ...

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Chester County writers present a fiction ‘sampler’

As part of our holiday book bag this week, we’re talking about works that focus on the Delaware Valley. This time we head west with ...

14 years ago

Visual Arts

Parental postmortems on the rehearsal, and dread for a snowy dawn

About midnight that night, the Levys and O’Mearas each lay in their hotel rooms in Old City. Each husband and wife stared into the ...

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London bridging: Penn professor to design park for Olympics and beyond

A professor at the University of Pennsylvania has been chosen to redesign a section of London following the 2012 Olympic Games. La ...

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Reminding Philadelphia of ‘Forgotten Tales’

A sewer worker is swept away by a flash flood through Philadelphia sewers. A man storms into a Philadelphia synagogue wielding a snake. ...

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Visual Arts

How Rachel Levy and Aaron O’Meara got together

“Gator!”  “Big Dude!” Kris Mason elbowed his way past a few tired businessmen holding Scotch and soda ...

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Visual Arts

‘Gen. O’Meara’ arrives at Philly wedding HQ to take command

Try as she might, Molly O’Meara couldn’t really sustain the pretense that Suzanne Levy’s crazy wedding calendar was spo ...

14 years ago

Visual Arts

About the author, illustrator and radio cast

Chris Satullo and Tony Auth have done a serialized, illustrated Christmas story together every year but one since 1996. The first dozen s ...

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How the legend of the Levy-O’Meara wedding began

Later on, once the tale of the wedding weekend of Rachel Levy and Aaron O’Meara had settled into legend – to be told and retold a ...

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Mural Arts Program sets up shop in Gallery

The Mural Arts Program has just opened a retail store in Center City. Over the last 25 years, the public art organization has crea ...

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Singing a different tune than ‘Christmas Carol’

From the Pennsylvania Ballet’s annual production of “The Nutcracker” to the Walnut Street Theater’s “A Christmas Ca ...

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