Arts & Entertainment
South Street businesses lend a hand to Fringe Festival’s queer-friendly cabaret
Late Night Snacks, now in its sixth year, has popped up in a vacant storefront. The business district would like the property to be a performance space permanently.
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Listen 1:14Contemporary Lenape artists offer their perspective on Lenape history
“Never Broken” at Michener Museum in Doylestown, Pa., asked Indigenous artists to tell the history of the Lenape people.
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Listen 1:27Philly-area author pens new kids’ book about international adoptees: ‘Carla the Conqueror’
Anna Maria DiDio hopes to help other families deal with the trauma of adoption by making the challenges easy to talk about.
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Say yes to the dress: Ann Lowe’s gowns for high society adorn Winterthur
Called “society’s best-kept secret,” Ann Lowe made gowns for special occasions, including Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress.
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She’s back: Funk freak Red 40 makes her hometown return in Fringe Fest
Funky, liberating, and a little gross, Martha Eies’ alter ego disappeared from Philly almost five years ago. This weekend, she’s back.
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Listen 2:47Bruce Springsteen cancels a slate of concerts, citing peptic ulcer disease
For decades, conventional wisdom held that peptic ulcers were caused by stress and unhealthy eating habits. But the vast majority are caused by bacteria.
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Sept. 7 - 10: Fringe Fest in Philly, St. Anthony’s Festival in N.J., and Brandywine Festival of the Arts in Delaware are among the weekend’s highlights.
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Listen 4:51Ukrainian artist Oksana Pivush’s passion for jewelry making will be on display among hundreds of other artists this weekend.
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Listen 1:14The 20-year art crawl: Artblog celebrates two decades of documenting Philly’s art scene
As press coverage of the arts shrinks, Artblog celebrates two decades of crawling through Philly’s galleries.
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Listen 1:13National Constitution Center opens First Amendment Gallery
The 1,500-square-foot exhibit includes interactive elements and a letter written by George Washington to the Quakers in 1789.
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Listen 1:15Philadelphia Eagles to release second holiday album ‘A Philly Special Christmas Special’
The album, which was recorded in the NFL off season, will include 10 holiday classics and an original song by Kelce.
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Sweet emotion in Philadelphia as Aerosmith starts its farewell tour, and fans dream on
Get ready to say goodbye to one of America's greatest rock bands. Aerosmith has started their farewell tour, celebrating 50 years of some of the best classic rock ever created
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Jimmy Buffett died of a rare skin cancer
Merkel cell carcinoma has a high risk of recurring and metastasizing, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation. About 3,000 new cases are diagnosed in the U.S. each year.
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Laurel Hill Cemetery has a hot rod hearse with the previous owner still inside
FYNLRYD has found its forever home parked just inside the gates of Laurel Hill East.
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The Phillies have evolved into their most powerful form
Baseball’s entering the homestretch, and Philadelphia is one of the only NL wild card teams rising to the challenge.
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