Peter Crimmins

“When there is an audience, I am involved with the audience and I thrive off their participation. But it's the music that ultimately injects that electricity into me,”

The moratorium, almost a year old, was seen as a necessary way of keeping people hard-hit by the pandemic from going without basic utilities, like gas, water, and electricity.

New mural dedicated to Smokin’ Joe rises in Philadelphia Lower Tioga neighborhood.

The Philadelphia Flyers will be the first to play in person for fans in a year. The 76ers will follow next weekend.

The largest and oldest indoor flower show in the world moves outside to FDR Park this summer, for the pandemic.

The bottom literally fell out from the terrestrial headquarters of the intergalactic jazz ensemble. Ninety-six-year-old bandleader Marshall Allen lives inside.

“Synesthesia” is an experiment in designing spaces that respond to you. After Philadelphia, it heads to the Venice Biennale of Architecture.

Teenagers were “the muscle” behind Cecil B. Moore’s historic protest outside Girard College in 1965. The school will soon have a mural depicting them.

A teenager pens an intergenerational drama about anti-Chinese racism, presented by Philadelphia Young Playwrights.

The intention is to prioritize individual artists and small arts organizations that do not have the same access to financial resources as larger cultural institutions.

Florence Price had one of her pieces performed in 1933, by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Since then, she has disappeared from the classical canon.

After a year of so many pandemic sacrifices, the faithful ponder living a little leaner still on Ash Wednesday.