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Arts & Entertainment

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.

3 years ago

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Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie at a Barbie event in June in Sydney, Australia.
NPR
Gender
Movies
Performing Arts

‘Barbie’ is the only billion-dollar blockbuster solely directed by a woman

Greta Gerwig's film joins a high-grossing list of mostly male-directed movies, most of them with men leading the casts.

3 years ago

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
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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.

3 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.

3 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.

3 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.

3 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.

3 years ago

Audience members look towards a screen that says
Things To Do
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Music
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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.

3 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.

3 years ago

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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.

3 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.

3 years ago

File photo: Actor Paul Reubens portraying Pee-wee Herman poses for a portrait while promoting ''The Pee-wee Herman Show'' live stage play, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009, in Los Angeles. Reubens died Sunday night after a six-year struggle with cancer that he did not make public, his publicist said in a statement.
Movies
Performing Arts
TV

Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens dies from cancer at 70

Reubens' character, with his too-tight gray suit, white chunky loafers and red bow tie was best known for the film “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” and the television series.

3 years ago

Julie Woodard poses near the tarp artwork that she created for a public installation piece. In the background is the Delaware River.
Environment
Philadelphia
Public Spaces
Visual Arts

Pockets of Light uses trash to highlight nature along the Delaware River Waterfront

Artist Julie Woodard carved flowers out of reclaimed plastic waste to draw attention to the Delaware River Waterfront’s natural environment.

3 years ago

The cast of Shakespeare in Clark Park's ''Two Gentlemen of Verona'' perform the opening number of the 1971 rock musical version in Clark Park.
Business
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

‘We’re in competition with the couch’: Philadelphia theater plots its future

The pandemic fundamentally changed how audiences go to live theater. Now local companies are banding together to face the future.

3 years ago

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Banner for Blackstar film festival
Movies
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice
Billy Penn

BlackStar Film Festival returns with a game-changing location and solidarity with labor strikes

With over 90 films representing nearly three dozen countries, the fest’s 12th year promises to be full of “joy, radical care, and thriving.”

3 years ago

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