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Fireworks explode over the Philadelphia Museum of Art during an Independence Day celebration, Friday, July 4, 2014, in Philadelphia.
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Philly philanthropies launch $9 million fund for America’s 250th birthday

America’s 250th birthday is coming in 2026, along with the World Cup, All-Star Game, and PGA Tour. Will you be ready?

2 years ago

SZA performs onstage
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Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Made in America is canceled: Is there a SZA Philly curse?

The R&B singer, who was set to appear with Lizzo, has now postponed or canceled three different Philadelphia performances.

2 years ago

People surround a sign that reads
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Music
Philadelphia

Made In America festival canceled

The annual music festival at Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway was set to include headliners Lizzo and SZA. Tickets will be refunded.

2 years ago

Open Studio Figure Drawing in the Perkins Center for the Arts building in Collingswood, N.J., which the center recently acquired from borough of Collingswood
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New Jersey
Visual Arts

Perkins Center for the Arts buys its building from Collingswood borough

The Center had been leasing its building from the borough for almost 20 years. It also received a $250,000 grant for its Moorestown site.

2 years ago

Listen 1:17
A child walks through a rain tree exhibition
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Easter egg or rabbit hole? Otherworld immersive experience opens in Philly

The new psychedelic immersive playground experience from Ohio has a menacing A.I. dystopia at its center.

2 years ago

Thousands of people packed Girard Ave. through Spring Garden for the 2nd Street Festival
Music
Neighborhoods
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Philadelphia

2nd Street Festival draws thousands of people to Northern Liberties

Roughly 200 vendors, including 22 food trucks and 55 local artists, were lined up between Girard Avenue to Spring Garden Sunday.

2 years ago

Listen 1:18
Sam Cooper (left) and Matt Quinn of Mt. Joy perform on day three of the Lollapalooza Music Festival on Saturday, July 31, 2021, at Grant Park in Chicago. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)
Community Events
Food & Drink
Music
Philadelphia

Mt. Joy holding food drives with Sharing Excess during 2-night run at The Mann Center

Sharing Excess will have tables set up outside The Mann where fans are encouraged to donate nonperishable goods before heading inside to watch Mt. Joy.

2 years ago

A fire breathing dragon lantern
Community Events
Philadelphia
Visual Arts
Billy Penn

It’s the last week to catch the Chinese Lantern Festival in Franklin Square

Live performances, artisan demonstrations, and 1,500 stretched-silk creations, lit from the inside.

2 years ago

Emily Gallagher holds up a jar of waste as she smiles, seated next to her husband, Austin Elston, who is also smiling.
Environment
Movies
Philadelphia

Philly filmmakers want to disrupt Hollywood with the first zero-waste feature film

Shot in Fishtown, the film generated just 16 ounces of trash. A typical Hollywood film can produce a million pounds of waste.

2 years ago

Mark Margolis on stage
Movies

Philly native Mark Margolis, actor known for roles in ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Scarface,’ dies at 83

Margolis was born in Philadelphia on Nov. 26, 1939, and briefly attended Temple University before moving to New York City to study acting.

2 years ago

Artist in residence Alex Tatarsky, wearing a gnome costume, looks up towards the sky. Trees and grass are visible in the background.
History
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

‘The performance of thoughtful melancholy’: Glen Foerd estate presents its resident garden hermit

In their performance piece “Gnome Core,” artist Alex Tatarsky plays a cranky hermit with one of the worst jobs in history.

2 years ago

Audience members look towards a screen that says
Things To Do
Community Events
Food & Drink
Music
Performing Arts

BlackStar Film Festival, Fall Out Boy, and 2nd Street Festival in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

Aug. 3 - Aug. 6: BlackStar Film Festival in Philly, Fall Out Boy in N.J., and Dean Ford & The Beautiful Ones in Delaware are among the weekend’s highlights.

2 years ago

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View of dancers in the spotlight on stage from above
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Philly Fringe returns with a focus on local performance artists

The 27th festival of experimental and avant-garde work will come back in September, as the theater industry still reels from the pandemic.

2 years ago

Listen 1:24
Jim Ward and Sparta, who played Philly 20 years ago, are returning on a tour around that same album
Music
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Sparta’s Jim Ward celebrates 20th anniversary of cult classic debut album in Philly, the ‘coolest brother’ of the East Coast

Jim Ward talks about reviving (and quitting) At The Drive-In, and the discovery that his debut album meant so much to so many people.

2 years ago

File photo: Angus Cloud, a cast member in the HBO drama series ''Euphoria,'' poses at the premiere of the series at the ArcLight Hollywood, Tuesday, June 4, 2019, in Los Angeles. Cloud, the actor who starred as the drug dealer Fezco ''Fez'' O'Neill on the HBO series ''Euphoria,'' has died. He was 25. Cloud's publicist, Cait Bailey, said McCloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. No cause of death was given.
National
Performing Arts
TV

Angus Cloud, breakout star of ‘Euphoria,’ is dead at 25

Cloud’s publicist, Cait Bailey, said Cloud died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. No cause of death was given.

2 years ago

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