Arts & Entertainment
In time of trouble, Japanese students create art, forge bonds
Less than a week after a group of Japanese art students arrived at the University of the Arts for an exchange program, their home country ...
15 years ago
Holocaust survivors take part in Shoah project
Itka Zygmuntowicz spent all of her teenage years in a Nazi concentration camp. Long afterward, in 1994, she sat down with an interviewer ...
15 years ago
South by Southwest may be losing direction
The annual “South by Southwest” music festival begins in Austin, Texas, Friday. For Philadelphia musicians, it’s an essent ...
15 years ago
Forest gumption: Goal to plant a million trees
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society has launched a tree-planting program with an ambitious goal: 1 million trees throughout the tri-st ...
15 years ago
Protest over mining blooms amid flower show
Visitors to the Philadelphia International Flower Show Wednesday got something they never expected: a protest. Nine people from a ...
15 years ago
Arts groups assess budget cuts
In their Center City conference room, the staff of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance was plugged in. While watching a video proj ...
15 years ago
Closed churches have some success in plea to Vatican
Nine Catholic churches in the Diocese of Allentown may not close after all following a decision by the Vatican. It’s the latest ste ...
15 years ago
State-of-the-art Convention Center devoid of art
Through the wall of glass towering over Broad Street, Convention Center visitors can see across the street into the windows of the scul ...
15 years ago
Expanded Convention Center opens
The expansion of the Pennsylvania Convention Center is now complete. On Friday, Philadelphia officials cut the ribbon on the $786 milli ...
15 years ago
Flower show imparts Parisian bouquet
The Philadelphia International Flower Show will open Sunday. Taking up 10 acres inside the Convention Center, it’s one of th ...
15 years ago
Magazines bow in print, online
With more journalism going online, magazines are trying to figure out where they should live. One locally published maga ...
15 years ago
The Onion rolls into town with new Philly edition
The newspaper famous for exaggeration and lies is launching in Philadelphia. The Onion, a satirical humor paper distributed online ...
15 years ago
Watson crashes against N.J. congressman
While the super-computer that won on “Jeopardy!” was taking a victory lap around the country, it was smacked down by U.S. Re ...
15 years ago
Chagall exhibit is aperitif to Paris-inspired art festival
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is jumping the gun. Next month, the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts descends on the ...
15 years ago
Lighthearted opera rose from place of despair
A children’s opera created by Jews in a Nazi concentration camp will be performed in Philadelphia. Photos by Nathaniel H ...
15 years ago