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In 2010, GPTMC launched a new web platform, VisitPhilly.com, and began plans for an official name change. [5] However, it wasn’t until three years later, in 2013, when the change became official. Visit Philadelphia’s website was the most-visited destination website of the 10 largest cities in the U.S. that year. [6]
The December Philadelphia WikiSalon was held as a special expanded event in coordination with WikiConference North America 2020. There was a special Zoom link for December 2020 only. Agenda for December 12, 2020. Help us to improve Thanksgiving dinner! Take photographs of your favorite Thanksgiving foods, and bring them to the December WikiSalon.
According to the Philadelphia Historical Commission, sites eligible for listing are those that possess any of the following: [2] Has significant character, interest or value as part of the development, heritage or cultural characteristics of the city, commonwealth or nation, or is associated with the life of a person significant in the past.
While the Met owned the MOH, it also rented the venue to other opera companies for their performances. The theater was the home of the Philadelphia-Chicago Grand Opera Company between 1911 and 1914. [8] The Philadelphia Operatic Society also used the house during and after the Met's tenure, through 1924.
This list of museums in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions, including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses, that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The name change was the result of a $25 million donation from Richard Worley and wife Leslie Anne Miller who are both former board members of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center. [8] The hall contains a pipe organ by Dobson Pipe Organ Builders , which is the largest mechanical action pipe organ in an American concert hall.
Electric Factory Concerts remains the dominant Philadelphia concert promoter, though the brand is now owned by Live Nation Entertainment. [ 7 ] The International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees , Local 8 has called for a boycott of all Electric Factory Concert events, stating that the promoter "(undermines) the area standard."
This partial list of city nicknames in Pennsylvania compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities, boroughs, and towns in Pennsylvania are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce. City nicknames can ...