SPR Arts & Entertainment
PUFF raffle supports 2025 festival
Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival, known as PUFF, is celebrating 10 years of independent cinema with a raffle supporting its 2025 festival. PUFF recently launched the Physical Media Fundraiser Raffle giving movie lovers across the country the chance to win over $400 worth of DVDs, Blu-rays, VHS tapes, books and more. The raffle prize pack includes rare and cult […]
FDR Park concert for a better world
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Theatre Exile season finale kicks off June 5
Theatre Exile’s new play Glitter in the Glass is picking up momentum right out of the starting block. Opening June 5, the play has already been extended through June 22 due to popular demand at its cozy South Philly venue at 1340 S. 13th St. The show concludes Theatre Exile’s adventurous 2024-25 season with a […]
Honky Tonk shows to raise money for Ukraine
Three South Philly parks will host With Love From America: A Honky Tonk for Ukraine during the month of June. Described as “a toe-tappin’, thigh-slappin’, rootin’, tootin’ good time,” the event features REV Theatre Company and a live band performing classic retro country hits. All shows are free and family-friendly and donations will support Save Ukraine, an agency […]
Fan Expo fun at the Convention Center
Fan Expo Philadelphia wrapped up its third and final day on Sunday at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. The pop culture extravaganza featured movie and TV stars, musicians, artists, writers, exhibitors, comics creators, cosplay, panel sessions and shopping. Among the stars whom fans had a chance to meet were John Cena, John Carpenter, Christopher Lloyd, Claudia […]
Reliving the early days of punk rock
They were wild times. Once standing at the corner of 21st and South Street was the tiny punk rock cultural phenomenon of a concert venue known as the Hot Club, which attracted almost every punk rock and new wave band in the late 1970s. It gave young local music lovers — some too young — […]