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BURLINGTON — Jay Wahl, producing artistic director at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, has been hired as executive director of the Flynn. He succeeds Interim Executive Director Charlie Smith, who began in January 2020. Wahl joins the Flynn after 11 years at the Kimmel Center, an inclusive organization that engages the Philadelphia region’s diverse communities through performance and education. Wahl served as an international liaison and advocate for the Kimmel Center and the Philadelphia arts community, programming and producing a wide range of performances, and spearheadi...

Black Music City received more than $30,000 in funding to distribute to artists in the Philly area, including parts of New Jersey and Delaware. The program also received funding from the Wyncote Foundation, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit known for its support of local arts. Black Music City celebrates the city’s legacy of Black musicians and other creatives that got their start in Philly, like John Coltrane, Jill Scott, Questlove, and Tierra Whack, among many others. “Black Music City is a program that calls upon Black creatives in the greater Philadelphia area (PA, NJ, DE) working in an...

Theodore Mann, lawyer and influential voice on Jewish affairs, dies at 92 Harrison Smith, The Washington Post Dec. 14, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Theodore Mann.Family photo Theodore R. Mann, a lawyer and activist who worked on landmark First Amendment cases, led Major American Jewish Organizations and became an early and outspoken advocate for a two-state solution in the Middle East, died Dec. 12 at a hospital in Philadelphia. He was 92. The cause was covid-19, said his daughter Julie Mann. He had been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus that can cause the illness about two weeks earlier, sh...

For the Review Hundreds of alumnae, parents, and students held a prayer vigil and marched to the Art Museum steps recently to voice their disapproval of the Philadelpphia Archdiocese’s decision to close Hallahan Catholic Girl’s High School at the end of the school year. Many of the participants who braved a chilly night were Roxborough residents who came out to advocate for the past, present and future of a beloved educational institution that has served generations from our community. - Advertisement - The rally also had representation from many other parts of the city and outlying...