Boone has taken precocious players under his wing in the past, but this one is special: 12-year-old Mekhi Boone is not only a promising drummer, he’s bassist’s youngest son.
Boone has taken precocious players under his wing in the past, but this one is special: 12-year-old Mekhi Boone is not only a promising drummer, he’s bassist’s youngest son.
The persistence of offensively racist imagery and its continued capacity to shock — hello, Gucci blackface turtleneck — got me thinking about the long and complicated history of blackface minstrelsy and how the timeline of American popular music as are intertwined.
The persistence of offensively racist imagery and its continued capacity to shock — hello, Gucci blackface turtleneck — got me thinking about the long and complicated history of blackface minstrelsy and how the timeline of American popular music as are intertwined.
“There was an inherent decency and goodness that we kind of crave in our leaders," Dan Fogelman says of Sterling K. Brown's character, who won election despite living in North Jersey.
The vibrant Salonen, who takes over the San Francisco Symphony in the 2020-21 season, gave his Philadelphia audience a wild ride, through a familiar Strauss and two meaty Bartók scores.
This glitzy affair with Helen Mirren a couple weeks ago was lovely, as far as it went. But this grand building needs an even grander gesture to build community support. One thought: A short series of Philadelphia Orchestra afternoon concerts there.
University researchers and Athenaeum members will be able to access each other's catalogs seamlessly in what could be a model for urban universities and neighboring independent libraries, archives, and museums.
Philly playwright Josh Wilder watched girls playing double Dutch on his block in Point Breeze. His play about their grit and resilience opens in Washington, D.C., this weekend.
In its 2019-20 season, the Philly Pops will expand its presence northward — to the Met Philadelphia, the renovated opera house that recently reopened on North Broad Street.
A new series from Oxygen will examine the 2008 death of a Wilmington man who a pair of retired New York City detectives believe may have been killed by an apparent group of murderers known as the “Smiley Face Killers.”
