Saying Florence Foster Jenkins was the worst soprano of all time is an exaggeration, but she’s probably the worst soprano to sell out Carnegie Hall. Jenkins was born in 1868 and grew up studying music in Wilkes-Barre. Her father was…

A raven perches upon a bust of Pallas near the door of the Free Library’s Rare Book Department. It’s a Halloween-prop fake, though — the real raven is just down the hushed hall, sitting on a branch inside two ventilated…

Jessie Hemmons, 25, aka Ishknits, is crouching down, sewing what looks like a neon, blue-and-green-striped sweater onto a skinny tree outside utility-gray Hartranft Elementary School in North Philly. A line of ants streaming over the bright new yarn looks about…

[ music/food ] Bruce Ice Cream and the Freeze Street Band isn’t going to be playing “Rocky Road” or inserting dairy-themed puns into lyrics like the band and event names might imply — the group is a pretty straight-up Springsteen…