Arts & Entertainment

In the 1990s, the Library of Congress conducted a survey to determine the most influential books. “Atlas Shrugged” came in se ...

In 1961, 6-year-old Larry Chertoff and 4-year-old Nina Chertoff shared a bedroom in a New York City apartment, with a window overlooking ...

When does Facebook stop being your friend and start being a tyrant? Philadelphia-based performance artist David Kim is trying to f ...

Philadelphia’s July 4th festivities will be mixing hip hop and soul. “Earth Wind and Fire in Philadelphia for the Four ...

Mayor Michael Nutter has declared April Jazz Appreciation Month in Philadelphia. But jazz in Philadelphia has seen better days. ...

Philadelphia’s hottest ticket is the public library. Comedian Tina Fey sold out the Free Library in rock-star fashion when t ...

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 ...

Daniyal Khan does not think of himself as a scientist. The junior at Berlin High School in Connecticut is more interested in shooting and ...

As Japan reels from the aftershocks of its devastating earthquake, an art gallery in Rittenhouse Square is exhibiting large-scale photo ...

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 ...

The statue of Rocky Balboa in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art was outfitted with a pink sweater over the weekend. Local graffiti ...

We cannot change the past. But in Source Code, a film opening this weekend, director Duncan Jones reminds us we can learn from i ...

“Ajax, Ajax…my name is a sad song. Who would have thought it would someday become the sound a man makes in despair.” ...

At 48 years old, Jeff Lecious still gets a laugh out of the Phillie Phanatic. “I remember the first game the Phanatic appear ...

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 ...