May 7, 2013
Discover a wide array of Philadelphia landmarks — both lesser-known and familiar — during Philadelphia Open House Tours, May 13-19. Returning for the 2013 spring season, The Philadelphia Open House Tours are a special event hosted by the Philadelphia Hospitality, Inc., an organization which offers insider-access specialty tours all year long. This round of tours [...]
Read more»April 18, 2013
A number of museums, galleries and other Philadelphia art attractions have dedicated space to the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, allowing lovers of visual arts to check out PIFA offerings on their own schedules. Unlike performances and major events, PIFA exhibits run all day long at their respective locations. If you haven’t had the [...]
Read more»March 12, 2013
The National Constitution Center’s marquee exhibit, American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition will soon be ending its run, but not before some great last events. The programming will start on Monday, March 25 and run through Sunday, April 7, and will center around 1920s-inspired activities, events and crafts. Events The Roaring ’20s Show [...]
Read more»February 27, 2013
The British are coming! While the Britain-themed 2013 Philadelphia Flower Show opens at the Pennsylvania Convention Center this Saturday, March 2, the best of Britain doesn’t have to end with the show’s exquisite themed garden displays — which by the way, are on view for two full weekends for the first time ever. English culture [...]
Read more»February 26, 2013
For the entire month of March, the National Constitution Center is celebrating the women who helped make America what it is today. Every day during the month of March, guests will be invited to explore the world of women’s history along with the National Constitution Center’s regular offerings. And in honor of the lovely ladies [...]
Read more»February 25, 2013
International House Philadelphia will soon be welcoming their first permanent historical exhibit. On Thursday, February 28, IHP: The First 100 Years will debut. The exhibit will tell the story of International House Philadelphia from the beginning. Photographs, press clippings, newsletters and other documents have been compiled to for your viewing pleasure. This exhibit will transport [...]
Read more»January 23, 2013
The National Museum of Jewish American History’s Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges exhibition is now open, through June 2. The highly anticipated exhibition shows how Jewish refugees and African-American students at historically Black colleges and universities supported one another and came together in search of freedom and opportunity. Beyond [...]
Read more»January 23, 2013
Philadelphia: The Great Experiment is a multi-format historical documentary that tells the story of Philadelphia and in part, the story of America. The documentary is split into individual episodes, each highlighting a different period in Philadelphia’s history, and episode 3, entitled Promise for a Better City, will make its television premiere tomorrow night, January [...]
Read more»January 16, 2013
This may still be hard to swallow but exactly 94 years ago today, January 16, 1919, the United States ratified the 18th Amendment, which outlawed the manufacture, sale and transportation of intoxicating liquors. In less than the amount of characters allowed in a Tweet today (112 to be exact), the constitutional amendment began a 13-year [...]
Read more»January 3, 2013
Martin Luther King, Jr. may be immortalized as a large marble statue in our nation’s capital, but was very much a man of flesh and blood, and that’s how he’s portrayed in The Mountaintop, the award-winning play by Katori Hall, opening at Philadelphia Theatre Company’s Suzanne Roberts Theatre on January 18. The drama imagines the [...]
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