For most of its history, the Philadelphia Orchestra has held an ambition of remarkable clarity: to be one of the world's great orchestral ensembles. And for the better part of 110 years, it has, by global critical consensus, realized that ambition.
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M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender, his adaptation of Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon series, topped $125 million in its first month of release. It's already the 13th highest-grossing film of the year, and in the few overseas markets where it has opened so far (Russia, Ukraine, Japan), the CGI-driven fantasy has attracted enthusiastic crowds and about $30 million in additional box office.
Gary Shteyngart's new novel, Super Sad True Love Story, is set in the near future, and believe me, you don't want to go there.
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French philosopher Simone Weil observed that "the past, once destroyed, never returns. Its destruction is perhaps the greatest of all crimes."
If the works that make up the summer show at the Philadelphia Cathedral seem to possess an inner spirit and hint at the infinite, it's not just the setting. It's more likely due to the fact that the show's three artists were chosen by Anne Minich, who exhibited here last year and whose own paintings suggest spiritual journeys across vast distances.
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Stephen Starr's latest restaurant is not a trend-setter. But chef Dionicio Jimenez gives reasons to try it.
Though it was a relatively modest opening by the company standards - just south of the million-dollar border - Stephen Starr's Mexican makeover for an old dive-diner (the Midtown IV) still bore unmistakable traces of El Conquistador's macho glitz.
CORRECTION: Everything old is new again, as they say. Like fried chicken. It's hot and re-happening. Hey, if Mad Men can be cool again - skinny ties and '60s martinis, the uptown picture of retro - why not a shout-out for its country-picnic cousin?
Of course, Stephen Starr knows Philly had a serious cocktail scene budding before he opened the Ranstead Room with a New York consultant and some self-promotional comments that piqued the ire of proud local cocktailians.
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Film epic Richard Wagner's monumental The Ring of the Nibelung, a reworking of Norse myth, is not so much an operatic cycle as a musical force of nature. The third of its four operas, Siegfried, was presented as a multimedia experience by the experimental
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Louis Kahn's summer-camp changing rooms near Trenton got him fired. Now they're being restored, hailed as the architect's launching point from modernism.
This is the building that marked a turning point in 20th-century architecture?
Its walls are made from concrete block the color of wet cardboard, and the mortar that holds them together seems to have been squeezed straight from a tube. You won't see a single window when you arrive at the Trenton Bath House, never mind a conventional front door.
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A scavenging game for the family makes the Art Museum and other city locations part of the fun.
Scavenger hunts used to be the province of summer camps and birthday parties. Soliciting neighbors for figurines of Minnie Mouse or trying to find a rare species of fern in the woods was child's play.
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