Tyler School of Art was founded in Elkins Park as an idyllic retreat where students could get away from the distractions of the city and immerse themselves totally in the arts.
The superstar pianist tells his harrowing pre-fame story, featuring China's one-child rule, an intensely invested father, and wall-punching.
No stranger to raised eyebrows, Chinese pianist Lang Lang takes the memoir genre into uncomfortable new ground in Journey of a Thousand Miles.
Rebecca Hall wants to debunk some Woody Allen myths. All the A-listers and ingenues who have gasped about how the bespectacled auteur appears aloof and indifferent on the set, proffering little in the way of direction and less in small talk - well, the Vicky of Vicky Cristina Barcelona would like to challenge that perception.
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The Cone sisters of Baltimore, Claribel and Etta, might have seemed eccentric to some of their contemporaries, not only because they continued to dress like staid and proper Victorians well into the 20th century but also because they collected avant-garde art.
Nathaniel C. Guest was in his junior year at Pottsgrove High School when Pennhurst first caught his eye.
In a 1993 essay he wrote for a local newspaper, Guest said there was something special about the buildings at the shuttered state insane asylum in northern Chester County and they should be preserved.
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As Dwight Schrute on The Office, Rainn Wilson is a walking sight gag with his thrift-shop clothes, chipped-kitchen-table haircut, and frowning face.
Movies Opening Friday Death Race In the not-too-distant future, prisoners in American jails are pitted against one another in the ultimate automobile race - one in which the winner goes free and the losers die. Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil) writes and directs.
Sunday
City music Radio host and writer Michael Lasser presents a lecture with performances of classics by George and Ira Gershwin in The Gershwins' New York: "Sweet and Low-Down" with singers Cindy Miller and Alan Jones. The look at the musical icons' relationship with the Big Apple goes on at 4 p.m. at Lenape Regional Performing Arts Center, 130 Tomlinson Mill Rd., Marlton. Tickets are $30. Call 856-983-3366.
A high-end clothing line printed with words to songs is a small boon to writers.
LOS ANGELES - Online music thieves can't interfere with the hundreds of songwriters Hanna Rochelle Schmieder has on her payroll.
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Actor Terrence Howard sings and plays his own songs on his new album — and they’re nothing like those of his signature film character.
When Terrence Howard first met with Sony music executives to discuss a recording career, the suits made an assumption.
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