Peter Crimmins

The Lemon Hill mansion in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park has been temporarily given over to artist Jane Irish.

Joe Zuritsky, CEO of a parking lot chain, has a second life as an artisan of koi. He has donated his prized fish to the Shofuso Japanese House in Fairmount Park.

Playwright Michael Hollinger is now rolling out two plays — a comedy, and a drama — and holding rehearsals for each in the same building.

The Syrian-American poet and hip-hop artist Omar Offendum spent this week in Philadelphia and will perform at the International House this Sunday.

The Philadelphia Orchestra will premiere a new choral work based on sounds and poems crowdsourced from area residents.

The nursing home in Chester County that burned last year, killing four residents, may not have had an operating sprinkler system, attorneys for victims say.

Love letters sent between inmates at Eastern State Penitentiary during the Civil War tell the story of an interracial love affair and social resistance.

The annual African-American History and Culture Showcase returns to the Pennsylvania Convention Center this weekend.

The Philadelphia Art Museum is exhibiting the work of Jean Shin, who makes work out of old clothes.

A Philadelphia church eschews tradition by using local ornamental grasses instead of palms on Palm Sunday.

The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia created an exhibition about the argumentative Alexander Hamilton and his founding accomplishments.

The Free Library of Philadelphia will receive electronic kiosks that print and dispense short stories.