Two South Street landmarks were destroyed in a 2022 fire: Jim’s Steaks and the neighboring Eyes Gallery.

The two buildings are now one.

via Peter Crimmins
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🎢 Dorney Park’s new roller coaster is a supernatural menace.

The Northeast's only zero-gravity drop coaster, Iron Menace tells the spooky story of the Lehigh Valley’s steel industry.

✏️: Peter Crimmins
📷: Emma Lee

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The eclipse officially started in Philly 20min ago, but cloud cover is hampering the effect
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Watching the eclipse is important.
The Wetstones from West Philly say it's more important to watch it as a family.
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Stargazers readying for eclipse at Franklin Inst
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It's solar eclipse day! Here's what you need to know:

🔸 Have questions about the eclipse? Our guide has the answers → bit.ly/4aoOK8d

🔸 Here's what time the eclipse will be visible where you live → bit.ly/3PV6TCF

#WrestleMania XL is set to body-slam into Philly this weekend.

Local performance artists are helping set the stage, featuring caricatures and absurdist conflict dressed up as a fight.

✏️: Peter Crimmins
📷: Emma Lee

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At The Wilma Theater, Brecht’s “The Good Person of Setzuan” is a hodge-podge of Asian cultural references to spoof audience awareness.

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I-676 is blocked in both directions right now (7pm) in downtown Philly as a few dozen ppl chantil Free Palestine. They are now being handcuffed with zip ties and led into a bus.

Instead of facing Penn’s Landing, Seaport Museum visitors will see a marina where the pride of the museum’s collection is moored: the 1885 cruiser Olympia.

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The Philadelphia Orchestra will give the hometown concert debut of a piano with an ergonomically curved keyboard.

It was created by the late architect Rafael Viñoly, who also designed Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center.

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A week-long music festival on eight church pipe organs around Philly brings thunder down from the heavens.

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.Philadelphia Chamber Music Society is staging a festival about dementia.

“The arts aren’t simply entertainment to keep people occupied,' said artistic director Miles Cohen. 'The arts have a role in care.”

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In a rare exhibition, incarcerated artists from SCI Phoenix, Pa., and San Quentin, Calif., form a group show at Philadelphia’s Paradigm Gallery.

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🎸 The guitar is roughly 600 years old. In that time, it's gone through many changes.

Composer Steven Mackey’s “Aluminum Flowers” showcases the many voices the guitar has developed.

✏️: Peter Crimmins
📷: Emma Lee

Story → bit.ly/49HGFet

'We wanted the Festival of Art Shiraz to be the melting pot of nations.”

Bowerbird revives the memory of this historic festival. Learn more about the exhibition -on view now at Asian Arts Initiative- from Peter Crimmins of WHYY News. #PewArtsGrants
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Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall renamed Marian Anderson Hall, after the opera virtuoso and civil rights hero.

Today at the National Constitution Center, CEO Jeffrey Rosen will be interviewed about “The Pursuit of Happiness,” a new book that traces the moral philosophy that drove the Founding Fathers.

via Peter Crimmins

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