Arts

Student with passions for the arts share classes you should take while you still have the chance. Artistic talent not required.
January 27, 2011 at 1:16 am

City Hall furniture exhibition makes your family look normal.
January 27, 2011 at 1:04 am

January 27, 2011 at 1:02 am

A new year and a new semester means a time for change, and Street thinks your dorm decor is so last semester.
January 20, 2011 at 12:27 am

The newest show at Bambi gallery explores exactly what raw talent means to an experienced photographer.
January 20, 2011 at 12:24 am

Joke Issue: We all hail from Philadelphia, dear readers, the most glamorous and industrious city on the Eastern Seaboard!
December 9, 2010 at 3:43 am

Joke Issue: Friday, December 10: Big Daddy Charles and the Charlatans, with the Back Alley Sextet, Le Chat Noir, 5 cents Big Daddy Charles hails from the Mississippi Delta, where he learned to play the gobble–pipe with the coolest cats on the Bayou.
December 9, 2010 at 3:40 am

Joke Issue: Cruising around the Big Apple in his flivver for hire, Lenny the Cabbie has seen his fair share of odd birds.
December 9, 2010 at 3:35 am

MUSIC Friday Dec. 3: The Antlers with The Luyas, First Unitarian Church, $13 Brooklyn–based trio The Antlers started as the solo project of Peter Silberman, who recruited Michael Lerner and Darby Cicci to back him on drums and keys, respectively.
December 2, 2010 at 4:36 am

This monthly art block–party is more than just an excuse to pilfer cups of wine from the galleries lining Second Street.
December 2, 2010 at 4:34 am

The work of Wharton Esherick just asks to be ignored. Sitting in Van Pelt amongst angrily buzzing computers and tired students buzzed on caffeine, an art exhibition doesn’t stand a chance.
December 2, 2010 at 4:32 am

Kill two birds with one stone at this charming furniture/clothing store hybrid. Shopping at Matthew Izzo is like entering a kitschy, candle-scented Wonderland, with wildly different items from African drums to delicate silver chains tempting your wallet in every direction.
November 18, 2010 at 4:46 am

MUSIC Sunday, Nov. 21: Concerts First presents the Next Big Thing Tour, The Trocadero, $15 What do Bedlight for Blue Eyes, the Early November, and the Josephine Collective have in common?
November 18, 2010 at 3:21 am

This week Associate Professor of the History of Art and Art History Undergraduate Chair Julie Davis sits down with Street and talks about getting Zen, reincarnated tacos and why Philadelphia is a cultural force to be reckoned with.
November 18, 2010 at 3:19 am

Italian contemporary artist Michelangelo Pistoletto has strewn the walls of the PMA with his artistic reflections in more ways than one.
November 18, 2010 at 3:15 am

I had to come to Fisher Fine Arts to write about it. I had to sit under the quotes from Shakespeare that line the Victorian windows of the main reading room; I had to look at the studded brass decals on the staircase; I had to enjoy the quietude that has led the girl next to me to zip her bag so slowly it doesn’t make a noise. Designed by the renowned Frank Furness in the 1880s and officially dedicated in 1891, FFA was originally the University’s main library.
November 11, 2010 at 4:10 am

Virgil Marti, a well–known Philadelphia artist and curator of Set Pieces, a show currently on display at the Institute of Contemporary Art, has given new life to decorative art pieces long forgotten in PMA’s storage facilities.
November 11, 2010 at 4:08 am

MUSIC Friday, Nov. 12: Maserati with Psychic Paramount and Steve Moore, Kung Fu Necktie, $10 The name of this three–piece from Athens, GA says it all: sophistication, precision and most importantly, lightning speed.
November 11, 2010 at 4:06 am

For November’s First Friday — the monthly arts block party in Old City — Street took to the sidewalks to find some dorm decor on the cheap.
November 11, 2010 at 4:02 am

With so many tricky social situations, it can be tough to maintain proper decorum. Here are two experts from opposite ends of the earth (one goes to Drexel and one goes to Penn) to give you their advice on everything from dating to dinner parties.
November 11, 2010 at 3:56 am