Arts & Entertainment
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 1:18‘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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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‘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.
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Listen 3:31BlackStar 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.”
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