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Chef Dionicio Jiménez serves shrimp and chapulines (grasshopper) tacos at Cantina La Martina in Philadelphia, Pa., on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.

Grasshopper tacos, ant soup, crunchy crickets, and more edible bugs in Philly

The Manayunk StrEAT Food Festival is a beloved street food festival on the main strip of Manayunk. This year will feature more than 100 vendors, six live bands, and retail shopping on Sunday, April 27, 2025.

21 must-attend Philadelphia spring markets and street festivals in 2025

Detail of two female "urau" (courtesans) on a ceremonial house post carved by artist Karopungi in the Eastern Solomon Islands, on display at the Temple Anthropology Laboratory and Museum on March 24, 2025. The newly renovated space opened as a public museum on April 1.

After hiding in plain sight for 50 years, a ‘new’ museum opens in Philadelphia

On Luu, of Southwest Philadelphia, cuts bananas to be fried at the Southeast Asian Market in FDR Park, in Philadelphia, on Saturday, May, 25, 2024.

Southeast Asian Market at FDR park returns this weekend

Wendy Scharfman as Daisy Werthan and Johnnie Hobbs Jr. as Hoke Colebum in Walnut Street Theatre's "Driving Miss Daisy."

Walnut Theatre’s ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ is a play about interracial friendship that doesn’t delve deep enough

Nic Rouleau and ensemble in the Walnut Street Theatre's "Elf the Musical."

Walnut Street Theatre’s ‘Elf’ is a shiny, bright reminder of the spirit of Christmas

A Kwanzan cherry blossom.

It’s officially Spring. Here’s where to find cherry blossoms across Philly.

Christmas Village in Philadelphia at LOVE Park and City Hall’s Dilworth Park. The open-air holiday market features more than 120 rustic wooden cottages trimmed in festive lights and housing vendors selling goods from around the world, along with food and live entertainment.

The region’s 20 best Christmas villages and holiday markets

From left: Jordan Bellow, Taysha Marie Canales, Jaime Maseda, Alana Raquel Bowers, and Sarah Gliko in "The Comeuppance" at the Wilma Theater.

‘The Comeuppance’ at the Wilma is a probable antidote to our existential dread

Visitors to Morey's Adventure Pier in Wildwood, New Jersey ride the "Great White" roller coaster and the "Sky Ride" chair lift on July 2, 2008.

Wildwood’s iconic Great White roller coaster to get a revamp