
Arts & Entertainment
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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Listen 1:17Easter 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.
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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.
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Listen 1:18Mt. 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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‘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.
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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.
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Listen 4:54Philly 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.
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Listen 1:24Jim Ward talks about reviving (and quitting) At The Drive-In, and the discovery that his debut album meant so much to so many people.
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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.
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