Meet the 4 Philly artists who received the United States Artists Fellowship award
Last week, United States Artists, a Chicago-based arts funding organization, announced its 2025 USA Fellows, a cohort of artists and collectives representing 10 creative disciplines and 21 states. Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary traditional artist César Viveros, sculptor and public artist Karyn Olivier, choreographer and performer Nichole Canuso, and interdisciplinary artist Rea Tajiri earned this prestigious recognition. The […]
As Philly gets ready for NFC title game, here’s what you need to know
The Eagles will host the Washington Commanders in the NFC Championship Game this Sunday at 3 p.m. at Lincoln Financial Field, and — lt’s be real — things might crazy around 7 o’clock. City officials are rolling out plans for road closures, parking restrictions, and public safety measures. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. […]
Arden premieres “Holy Grail of Memphis,” running through Feb. 23
The story behind “Holy Grail of Memphis” first captured Arden Theatre Company’s producing artistic director. “Holy Grail of Memphis” is “a comedy about people who are unreconciled with their lives, with where they are at in their lives, and that really appealed to me,” said Terrence J. Nolen, who leads Arden Theatre Co. and is […]
SEPTA working on fix for cards that aren’t working
SEPTA officials shared Thursday that a card production issue was causing some student, senior, paratransit and reduced fare passes to be declined at subways, buses and Regional Rail locations. The good news? The transit agency reports that the issue isn’t affecting riders who use standard SEPTA Key cards or contactless payments methods like credit cards, debit […]
Billy Penn’s, and Philly’s, biggest stories of 2024
Philadelphia had an eventful year, yet again. A new mayor took office for the first time in eight years, the plan to build a downtown basketball arena ignited fierce opposition, and the city played its familiar starring role in a highly consequential presidential election. Philadelphians also had fun entertaining themselves, as we always do — […]
Luigi Mangione makes appearance in New York court, faces federal charges
Luigi Mangione, the former Penn graduate accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson earlier this month, has been charged with multiple federal crimes, including murder, stalking, and weapons offenses. These charges are in addition to the state-level charges in New York and Pennsylvania already filed against him. During a brief court hearing in Lower […]
Kid-friendly theater abounds this holiday season near Philly
Yes, we all love Harry Potter, but really, isn’t it a little much? Eight movies, seven books, and 3,407 pages? We’re not even going to try to calculate the number of words. What if you could do the whole thing in about 70 minutes? Yep, “all seven books in 70 minutes,” promises British actor Amanda […]
Rare ‘flex’ puts off SEPTA crisis, annoys Republicans
On the face of it, Gov. Josh Shapiro’s surprise announcement that he would give SEPTA an extra $153 million seemed like a straightforward decision. The money was just sitting there, waiting to be spent on future highway projects, and SEPTA desperately needed it to avoid a huge fare hike and potentially devastating service cuts that […]
Years after dropping out, adults give high school another try
Christopher Ramos sat in a classroom at South Philadelphia High School, his head bent over a paperback of “Death of a Salesman.” Reading aloud, he picked his way through the part of Bernard, Biff Loman’s classmate. “Listen, Biff, I hear miss — Mr. Burham say that he — that if you don’t start studying math, […]
‘Amsterdam’ asks, can we ever step out of shadow of trauma?
Imagine this. You are Jewish and by some miracle, you manage to survive the World War II concentration camps. Exhausted, emaciated, you find your way back to the home you left in terror years or months ago. And there, waiting for you in almost laughably cruel irony, is a gas bill – overdue. Overdue bills […]