Arts & Entertainment

It may be difficult to quantify creativity, but a new report issued by Philadelphia’s office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Econ ...

Arts reporter and reluctant Christmas song expert Peter Crimmins takes you on an audio stroll through some of his favorite tunes. What ar ...

Last weekend, the 30th Street train station in Philadelphia sounded a lot like an old-fashioned typing pool from the TV show Mad Men. ...

The Philadelphia version of Brownstoner.com has called it quits. The popular blog about real estate, preservation and urban ecology was a ...

Aryon Hoselton is cutting out a pattern for a wench dress from an old hospital curtain. He’s also silkscreening, hustling he ...

After eight years of arguing, the new President’s House historical installation on Independence Mall is open to the curious, 24 hou ...

After eight years of controversy, a commemorative installation where the first White House once stood is open. “The Presiden ...

The home where George Washington shared space with his slaves has opened to visitors. The long-buried  structure also opened a debat ...

A new strategic plan implemented by the board of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts last fall is reaping rewards. A major collecti ...

Peggy Amsterdam led the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance until she died of cancer last year, the day after Christmas.  ...

Philadelphia will see the American premiere of a new comic opera this week. But it won’t be at the Academy of Music, nor the Kimmel ...

Octavius Catto was, in his day, as known for his civil rights activism as was Frederick Douglass.

The film “Black Swan” starring Natalie Portman opens this weekend. Several Philadelphia dancers appear alongside her in the ...

He has played with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock and Stan Getz. He has won three Grammy awards, and is now up for a fourth. He ...

The religious and the secular make strange bedfellows during the holiday season as shopping and egg nog share the same space with spiritu ...