Arts & Entertainment
Valentine’s Day tradition continues with six weddings
Two violinists playing Mozart were jostling for elbow room near a cheese monger while the happy couples exchanged vows beneath a sign for ...
14 years ago
Mac or PC? ENIAC helped pave the way for both
On February 14, 1946, America’s love affair with the computer began. That is when John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert of the ...
14 years ago
Antique ads show the genesis of social networking
“A green youth from a country village, tired of having young ladies fall captive to his good looks, desiring to be loved for his go ...
14 years ago
Mummies return to ‘Silk Road’ exhibit
The missing mummies at the Penn Museum will be there soon. Last week, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Ant ...
14 years ago
Putting a portable dance floor through its steps
An empty retail space in the Gallery Mall in Center City Philadelphia is hosting a month of dance. Every weekday in February, the public ...
14 years ago
Pop-up studios rise to the artistic occasion
A former bicycle shop in Mount Airy has been transformed into a temporary art gallery as ephemeral as a paper moon. Edward Maeder ...
14 years ago
Beat poet uses ballpoints, not drum machines
Julius Wright is taking hip-hop down to its bones. The South Philadelphian, calling himself the Lyrical God, uses ballpoint pens to bang ...
14 years ago
Wing Bowl is in a league of its own
Jonathan Squibb — aka “Super Squibb” — is not a professional athlete. But he has learned to talk like one. ...
14 years ago
With cafe and exhibit space, plaza will link PAFA
The idea has been 10 years in the making. It was the Convention Center that finally took it over the hump. The Pennsylvania Academ ...
14 years ago
With sale, storied cruise liner stays afloat
On Tuesday, the SS United States Conservancy bought the SS United States (or what remains of it – the interior is gutted) for $3 m ...
14 years ago
DIY Philly filmmaker wins at Sundance
The underdog has brought home a bone. Jon Foy spent 5 1/2 years making a documentary about a marginal subject. “Resurrect De ...
14 years ago
Delineating anatomy at the Academy
If you play the Philadelphia parlor game, “Where in the world is ‘The Gross Clinic’?” — it’s now at PAF ...
14 years ago
Discussing ‘Race,’ reconsidering values
David Mamet’s new play gets at what we talk about when we talk about race; it’s full of evasions, justifications and agendas. ...
14 years ago
A 13th sign isn’t ‘in the stars’
Garland of Letters, a new-age, incense-burning bookstore on South Street, Philadelphia, has been around for more than 30 years. Its owner ...
14 years ago
Competition heats up with another Philly ‘Iron Chef’
It had to happen. When Jose Garces, owner of eight restaurants, including Amada and Whiskey Village, became a regular competitor on the T ...
14 years ago