April 24, 2013
After a chilly few days, temperatures are spring appropriate once again. This calls for a celebration, so head out to one of the many happenings in the city tonight. The Philadelphia Science Festival, Philly Tech Week and PIFA are all in full swing with a bunch of events at locations all over the city. But [...]
Read more»April 24, 2013
After a month of art-centric events, the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts is ending its 2013 celebration. PIFA ends with the PIFA Street Fair, an all day bash on Broad Street with food, vendors, live performances and even a dinosaur petting zoo on Saturday, April 27. The days leading up to the Street Fair [...]
Read more»April 11, 2013
Have you participated in PIFA yet? As the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts approaches its halfway point, there are still tons of excellent performances and events yet to come at the Kimmel Center and beyond, including the daylong Street Fair on April 27. If shows thus far haven’t inspired theater-going, take a look towards [...]
Read more»April 5, 2013
The Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts is in full swing, with a slew of ongoing events and one-night-only awesomeness. This weekend sees the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia perform the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at the Kimmel Center as well as closing weekend of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret’s Wide Awake: Civil [...]
Read more»April 1, 2013
Though the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts has just begun, we’re already anticipating the blockbuster daylong Street Fair set to close out the festival in a big way on Saturday, April 27. Shutting down Broad Street from Chestnut to South streets from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., the free fair will transform the thoroughfare [...]
Read more»March 27, 2013
Alright, arts aficionados. The wait is almost over. The month-long citywide Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA) runs this Thursday, March 28 through April 27, and now is the time to take full advantage of this city’s phenomenal performing and visual arts scene. With more than 50 PIFA events taking place during the next [...]
Read more»March 22, 2013
The Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA) kicks off next week, on March 28, and it’s officially time to get psyched for the bonanza of arts and cultural events coming our way. Today, catch a festive pop-up parade and get ready for the city to be inundated with events surrounding PIFA and its theme, [...]
Read more»March 18, 2013
Now in its third year, the Philadelphia Science Festival (PSF) — one of the first of its kind in the nation — returns April 18-28 to put science in focus for an 11-day run of 100 smart events at restaurants, museums, libraries, galleries and outdoor spaces. In past years, the festival has seen engagement from [...]
Read more»January 29, 2013
The Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA) returns this Spring, March 28-April 7, with more than 50 performances and events taking place throughout the city, featuring local, national and international performers. PIFA’s 2013 theme is If You Had a Time Machine, taking performers and audiences on a journey through time, highlighting past adventures, current [...]
Read more»December 31, 2012
What a year it’s been for Philadelphia. 2012 saw Anthony Bourdain film his first-ever TV episode here, the Penn Museum turn 125, the Academy of Natural Sciences turn 200, a snazzy new hotel open on Independence Mall, one of the world’s most renowned art collections open its doors right on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and [...]
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