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Courts & Law

Trenton art project hopes to share the potential and the full story of residents lost to violence

The Potential Project will use public art and a mobile app to honor people lost to homicide in New Jersey’s capital city through the eyes of the people closest to them.

4 years ago

After being closed for 18 months for the pandemic, the Steel River Playhouse will welcome audiences back into it main stage auditorium during Arts Montco Week, for a series of three one-man performances
Arts & Entertainment

Montco launches its first county-wide Arts Week

Arts venues have a $100M impact on Montco’s economy. Arts Week highlights the large and small spots reopening from the pandemic.

4 years ago

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Velvet McNeil (Cherri Gregg / WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Black woman photographer captures 9/11 from ‘Blocks Away’

Photographer Velvet McNeil describes being at ground zero to document the day the twin towers fell.

4 years ago

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The exterior of Ubuntu Fine Art Gallery in Germantown; A painting inside the gallery
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Germantown’s new Black-owned photography gallery aims to be a portal away from the trauma of everyday life

Ubuntu is more than a name for Steven CW Taylor’s spot — it’s an ethos.

4 years ago

A sculpture at 13th and Cuthbert streets
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Arts & Entertainment

Soaring above an alley, ContraFuerte surprises and delights

Struggling to keep both themselves and a bridge upright, Miguel Horn’s ContraFuerte is open for your interpretation.

4 years ago

Violinist Randall Mitsuo Goosby is pictured playing
Arts & Entertainment

Pew Center grants $10.2 million for digital and diversity efforts

The annual Pew grants will distribute money toward arts institutions’ digital and diversity efforts.

4 years ago

Carli Chesney receives a frog tattoo
Community
Billy Penn

At one of Philly’s oldest tattoo parlors, women are inking the art

Eddie’s in Chinatown has experienced a changing of the guard.

4 years ago

Dancers rehearse
Arts & Entertainment

Fringe Festival turns 25, spawns its own mini-festival

Cannonball is a new artist-produced festival-within-the-festival, a critical sign of growth for the Philly Fringe.

4 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Swimming while Black: A new exhibit explores Black resilience at the pool

An exhibition inside the Fairmount Waterworks’ dilapidated underground pool explores the history of segregated swimming.

4 years ago

Caleb Followill of Kings of Leon performs during KAABOO 2019 at the Del Mar Racetrack and Fairgrounds
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Philly Naked Bike Ride, Kings of Leon, tango at the forefront and more in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Aug. 26 - Aug. 29: Things to do in Philadelphia, Del., and N.J.

4 years ago

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The exterior of the Painted Bride building
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Urban Planning

Apartments on top, murals on bottom: Philly approves building plan, saves Painted Bride facade

The Zoning Board of Adjustment decision would allow construction of a 70-unit modernist apartment building in exchange for preserving the mural.

4 years ago

An oil painting of what will become the
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Arts & Entertainment

Salsa as self-care? Find joy in free dance lessons and a mural of salseros Saturday

A new mural from artist Andres Giraldo is coming to Kensington. “Salsa Shines Through” celebrates Philly’s salsa community and their resilience during the pandemic.

4 years ago

Camae Ayewa (left) and Rasheedah Phillips (right), the artists of Black Quantum Futurism and makers of the film “Write No History” with their work in Philadelphia’s historic Hatfield House
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Arts & Entertainment

Philly’s fave Afrofuturists turned a Fairmount mansion into a time-travel portal

The Hatfield House in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park is the site of an Afrofuturist vision of time travel by the art duo Black Quantum Futurism

4 years ago

The city of Camden unveiled an historical, interactive mural at City Hall on August 12, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

A digital mural allows visitors to ‘see, touch, feel’ Camden history, with hope it’ll draw tourists

With a digital mural, Camden wants to draw history buffs for USA’s 250th birthday.

4 years ago

Fever announced on Thursday that Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience is coming to the Tower Theater later this month.FACEBOOK / FEVER
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Van Gogh ‘immersive’ event announces Tower Theater is Philly location, as customers worry about scam

The company producing the show has received hundreds of Better Business Bureau complaints.

4 years ago

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