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The Philadelphia Folk Festival is gearing up for its 60th installment, but this could very well be its last dance.

How quickly time flies. Renaissance, the symphonic progressive rock legends who started in England and became American, are releasing “50th Anniversary – Ashes are Burning – an Anthology – Live in Concert with The Renaissance Chamber Orchestra.” Its a Blu-ray/DVD/2CD set of the 50th anniversary Concert at the Keswick Theater in Glenside, Pennsylvania. The event was performed Oct. 12, 2019, featuring their own 10-piece Renaissance Chamber Orchestra and with special guest Renaissance co...

Rabbi Jonathan Maltzman has been an unabashed Philadelphia 76ers fan for more than four decades, ever since his father, Rabbi Marshall Maltzman, brought home the team’s coach — and one of the greatest Jewish basketball players of all time — Dolph Schayes, for a Passover Seder. At the time, Sixers-Celtics was one of the fiercest rivalries in sports. Philadelphians loved Wilt Chamberlain and loathed Bill Russell, but saved plenty of venom for Celtics coach Red Auerbach. “I hated his cocki...