Arts & Entertainment
Richard Dreyfuss starting contest for playwrights to promote civics lessons
An Academy Award-winning actor with a passion for civics wants to use the arts to get more class time for lessons on government. ...
15 years ago
No skulduggery, but Penn scientist’s conclusions still invalid
A collection of more than 1,000 skulls at the University of Pennsylvania Museum is at the center of a debate about scientific objectivit ...
15 years ago
Dead reckoning: 45 mummies arrive in Philadelphia
Six men in black suits, wearing sunglasses and earpieces, stood on the loading dock of the Franklin Institute looking like pallbearers. W ...
15 years ago
A banner day for fashion in Philly
Like a scene from “The Sound of Music,” advertisement banners that had fluttered from poles along Broad Street were pulled d ...
15 years ago
Artist Chuck Connelly keeping it simple in Chestnut Hill
A small Chestnut Hill art gallery is showing the work of one of the more notorious artists of the last 30 years. Chuck Connelly ...
15 years ago
Reaping treasure — and bargains — from Penn cast-offs
On Saturday morning, the University of Pennsylvania is selling off things its students leave behind. The annual PennMOVES program collect ...
15 years ago
Exhibit of dreamy dresses about to pack up
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is about to close its popular exhibit of dresses by Italian fashion designer Roberto Capucci. The s ...
15 years ago
Philadelphia literary magazine launches TV show
A Philadelphia literary magazine is releasing its second issue this week, as well as its own television show. The “Apiary Mixtape ...
15 years ago
Play inspired by Mumia case has Phila. premiere this week
A play based on Mumia Abu-Jamal and Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner is premiering in the city this week. It is not a dramatiz ...
15 years ago
‘Pop-up’ concerts highlight Phila. Orchestra’s music and mission
On Friday morning, commuters at the Market East station heard a sextet as they got off the train. Later on, lunchtime diners at the Readi ...
15 years ago
The ‘ups and downs’ of summer in South Jersey
People from all around the Delaware Valley will flock to South Jersey this summer. Many will come for the state’s main nature-made ...
15 years ago
‘Mayor of South Street’–a punk icon–dies
“I was born in Philadelphia,” said Michael DeLuca, aka Mikey Wild, in the YouTube video “Mikey Wild: the Living Legend. ...
15 years ago
Kids sharpen reading and writing through photography
All spring, artists have been teaching elementary school kids in Philadelphia how to use photography to become better at reading and writ ...
15 years ago
Cuban dance company makes rare appearance
A national Cuban modern dance troupe is visiting America for the first time since the United States imposed an embargo on the island nati ...
15 years ago
Two art galleries in Philadelphia are jointly hosting a science fair created by artists. Curators at the Esther Klein Gallery in Universi ...
15 years ago