After getting thumped in Montgomery County Orphans' Court, the people who want to keep the Barnes Foundation's art collection in Lower Merion are looking west for a strategy.
It was a spectacularly strange triple bill on Thursday night at The Fire, the drinking establishment and music venue in Northern Liberties.
A Montgomery County judge has thrown out an attempt to stop the Barnes Foundation's $5 billion art collection from moving to a new Philadelphia exhibition space.
ENTERTAINMENT BLOGS
Weeks after a milk-truck driver opened fire in an Amish school, a state police commander sought an unconventional way to both evoke and transcend the tragedy: a piece of art.
Tax breaks drawing moviemakers to Pa.
When David Frankel agreed to direct the movie adaptation of John Grogan's best seller Marley & Me, he expected to shoot in Philadelphia at The Inquirer, where Grogan had been a columnist.
Voting results are in, but they're a very closely held Shore secret.
The ballots are in. And the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium is guarding the results as if it were PricewaterhouseCoopers on Oscar night.
New Orleans bucks the drawing boards
NEW ORLEANS - The style wars between the modernists, the traditionalists, and the free-thinking blobists were the farthest thing from Vernessa Rogers' mind when she was asked to choose from a group of sleek house designs commissioned by actor/architecture buff Brad Pitt.
A Rosenbach retrospective re-creates Maurice Sendak's view of childhood - before adults took it over.
The childhood that Maurice Sendak remembers, in which children were allowed more trial and error in coming to grips with the vicissitudes of life, no longer exists. Childhood today is tightly regulated, circumscribed and electronically monitored.
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Christoph Eschenbach's all-Schubert final subscription concert as Philadelphia Orchestra music director was neither daring nor fail-safe. But it was certainly a reminder of what an individualistic musical thinker the community is losing, and of how resourceful he can be - at least during this final run of concerts - at channeling the orchestra's best qualities into something well beyond the luxury of its sound.
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A tale of obsession and vigilantism cut with humor and a little Hegel, Henry Bean's Noise is a satisfyingly screwy New York story in which a successful businessman/family man jettisons all because he can't stand the cacophony on the street.
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