Frank Bender lives for the dead.
For 30 years, the forensic sculptor has peered into skulls and seen souls. With no scientific training and no college education, he became an internationally heralded "recomposer of the decomposed," an artist who solves crimes while providing comfort to strangers.
Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe was standing on a subway platform in Harlem one Monday in September two years ago, trying to decide: uptown or downtown?
Opera's Tito Capobianco, who shaped the art
The ultra-operatic opera director Tito Capobianco is back in Philadelphia - but does anybody recognize him without Joan Sutherland in tow? Or without his spirited wife, Gigi, telling him his work could be better? Or without his eloquent, oft-repeated Freudian slips? ("We'll burn that bridge when we come to it.")
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Pop The TV series Glee, about a crazy-quilt high school vocal group, is absolutely irresistible. The music alone? Slightly less so. The songs, stripped of their visual component, sound less ingenious, and in some cases, pro forma. When you can't see an ov
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Knotted up The installation Heaven, Hell and Original Sin is a collaborative effort by mixed-media artist Melissa Maddonni Haims and painting duo Rachel Isaac and Rochelle Marcus Dinkin, who work as The Grimm Sisters. The three-part exhibit begins with Ha
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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men Julianne Nicholson stars as a graduate student who explores the psyche of men for her thesis. John Krasinski (The Office) directs the movie, based on the David Foster Wallace book.
I somehow missed a salient fact about former punk-rock impresario Malcolm McLaren's Shallow 1-21, a video being shown in its entirety for the first time in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' Morris Gallery: its length. Eighty-six minutes is an exceptionally long time to spend in the company of a single artwork, even a video that's made of up 21 parts, each of which McLaren terms a "musical painting."
Barkley L. Hendricks' portraits of African Americans capture a changing culture.
Barkley L. Hendricks has achieved something relatively rare among artists: He has created paintings that capture the essence of an American cultural transformation.
From stuffy to the right stuff: A bold makeover, lowered prices, and a new chef cooking exciting Asian fusion signal welcome maturation.
Buying a successful business sounds like a solid idea in most realms. But in the quirky universe of Philly restaurants, where hands-on owners and chef talent often matter more than brand names, there can be unexpected baggage changing hands along with the walk-in fridge, wine glasses, and range.
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From history to artistry, discovering Doylestown.
DOYLESTOWN - In the three centuries since the French-Irish Doyle (formerly D'Ouilli) family settled its land grant from William Penn, Doylestown has gone through a number of transformations.
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