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On Sunday, September 8, 2:00PM.-5:00PM, Art Sanctuary kicks off its 2013 Fall season with the Annual ‘A Jazz Tribute: Celebrating the Life of John Coltrane’, honoring the life and legacy of one of our nation’s greatest jazz musicians. 

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I’ve been trying to figure out lately why the shenanigans going on in the School District of Philadelphia feel so familiar to me. I think that it’s because I understand the Politics of Toys.

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Employed by News Corporation – the former media group that incorporated the Fox News Channel and NewsCore – for nearly 13 years, Smith is a media industry leader with a reputation for combining integrity and innovation to produce high-quality journalistic content.

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Everyone in the 76ers organization, along with fans and media, is bracing themselves for a season where they’re not going to win many games. But new Sixers head coach Brett Brown told everyone at his press conference on Wednesday that it wouldn’t be that way forever…

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Lee Daniels The Butler works because of a cast filled with familiar faces in not so familiar places.   By Denise Clay   For me, what makes a movie worth my $12 is a combination of good dialogue (I am a writer, you know…) and good acting.   Hollywood, to its credit, has produced some pictures…

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If you ever go into television, make sure you remember this simple piece of advice:  Never get angry at your co-worker and call him a ‘house n*gger’ in public.  If you avoid doing this, you might have a chance to keep your job.

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If you had asked him two months ago, Martin Luther King III, current head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, probably would have told you that the March on Washington being held on Saturday Aug., 24 was a sort of anniversary celebration of the world-famous march his father held on Aug. 28, 1963.

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A headstone from the early 1800’s, along with other artifacts uncovered at the site of the old Mother Bethel Burial ground was on display last Sunday, August 4, 2013, at Mother Bethel AME Church, 419 South 6th Street. 

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PNC announced last week that it is extending by $1 million its PNC Arts Alive! program, designed to help arts organizations in Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey expand and engage audiences. Since its launch in 2009, Arts Alive has provided $5 million over five years…

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Philly residents apparently preferred a neighborhood restaurant when it was named after a racial slur. For 64 years, the sign “Chink’s Steaks” hung overhead the steak shop, but in March the owner Joe Groh decided it was finally time to drop it in favor of “Joe’s Steaks + Soda Shop.”

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