Arts & Entertainment

For its 200th anniversary, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia is unveiling “Frankensquid.” The flying squ ...

The Arden Theater in Philadelphia’s Old City is ready to expand by half. The longstanding theater company — an anchor ...

Two historic buildings in Fairmount Park that had been neglected for decades are being restored. Over 200 buildings were construct ...

Four downtown nightclubs in Philadelphia will be hosting a jazz festival on April 28. The Center ...

If you’re high-brow, it looks like a painting by Piet Mondrian. If you’re low-brow, it looks like the Partridge Family bus. ...

Five local artists are working to memorialize each Philadelphian killed in 2012. But with 78 homicides already and the total growing more ...

A contemporary jazz great is coming back home to Philadelphia to teach high school kids. Grammy-winning bass player Christian McBr ...

The historic Landis Theater in Vineland, N.J., is under new management. The 700-seat art deco movie palace has been struggling to stay af ...

Elba Hevia y Vaca wants to pull flamenco into the 21st century. “Traditional flamenco is very limited — a wonderfully ...

Events surroounding the 150th anniversary of the Civil War are in danger of eclipsing the anniversary of another American military action ...

The 2012 Philadelphia International Flower Show is now a memory, but the plants live on. The tropicals that dazzled on the showroom floor ...

The National Museum of American Jewish History on Independence Mall will soon have a new leader. The museum’s director, Ivy ...

Philadelphia is in the middle of a monthlong art festival celebrating textile and fabric art — Fiber Philadelphia 2012. City Hal ...

“Philadelphia’s favorite stage couple,” Tony Braithwaite and Jennifer Childs, have paired up again for a delightfully w ...

For the last five years, the Starbucks coffee shop on Broad Street has had its own artist-in-residence. Dennis Jones parks himself ...