Arts & Entertainment

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Several artists based in Philadelphia are experimenting with an alternative way of raising money. A new website called United States Arti ...

In real estate, the balance between development and preservation is a delicate one. But some historic buildings in Philadelphia could fac ...

Philadelphia is represented in the Grammy nominations released last week. Artists ranging from jazz to R&B to hip hop — even in ...

On Tuesday, one of the rarest, most expensive books in the world will be auctioned at Sotheby’s in London. An original copy of John ...

While many neighborhood arts organizations dream of expanding, a North Philadelphia program dreamed of shrinking. For 11 years, th ...

For more than 50 years, George Balanchine’s “Nutcracker” has been the gateway for thousands of first-time ballet dancer ...

Hundreds of soccer fans crowded into the downtown Irish bar Tir Na Nog Thursday morning to watch the president of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, cru ...

The Eastern State Penitentiary is taking a page from the fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel,” wherein hapless children are lured t ...

A North Philadelphia youth football team is headed to Florida to play this weekend in the Pop Warner Super Bowl.  But for the ...