Grand Theft Auto IV car-jacked pop culture this week.
The controversial and coveted video game sold about six million units in the XBox 360 and PlayStation 3 formats, reaping more than $500 million in worldwide sales.
Cartoonist Ted Key, 95, whose characters included a bossy maid and a time-traveling dog scientist, died at his Tredyffrin home Saturday.
Jerry Spinelli writes books that win awards and droves of young readers. When he needs an idea, he returns to his roots.
Don't tell Jerry Spinelli you can't go home again.
The popular and prolific author of more than 20 young adult novels regularly makes the trip across the Schuylkill to Norristown, the working-class community where he was born and raised.
ENTERTAINMENT BLOGS
After seeing the brief orientation video, a six-minute sampler of what awaits in the gallery beyond, anticipation for "Mike's World" is high. The highlight piece makes the new exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art and the artist it features, Michael Smith, look appealing. As I stepped through the curtain, I expected to enjoy this show.
Nick Goldsmith and Garth Jennings, the duo behind the crazy English coming-of-ager Son of Rambow, were in town for the recent Philadelphia Film Festival. And Goldsmith, an inquisitive Londoner on his first visit to our city, picked up that day's edition of this newspaper.
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The Composer Is Dead.
Actually, he's alive, Nathaniel Stookey is, and clearly relishing the dozens of recent performances of his new work, The Composer Is Dead.
- ArtsWatch: Last Call For Monumental Work on Washington Square
The Philadelphia Orchestra will perform an edited concert version of a La bohème, Yo-Yo Ma plays Saint-Saëns' Cello Concerto No. 1, and London pianist Leon McCawley brings a Mozart piano concerto to the Mann Center for the Performing Arts this season.
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There will be bigger rock stars on stage at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts this summer than in a number of years, though the marquee attractions are in the latter stages of their careers.
Movies Opening Friday
The Babysitters A babysitter becomes a high school madam after her "involvement" with the father of two of her charges leads her to set up "dates" between her friends and other fathers.
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Bill Dailey's eyes go soft when he describes the experience of biting into a Cox's Orange Pippin, the classic British heirloom apple growing in his backyard in Broomall.
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By David King Saturday Family affair The State of Black Philadelphia is the theme of the 2008 African American Family Conference from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at Howard Gittis Student Center, Temple University (13th and Montgomery Streets). Talks will be
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