Making his written-word debut this summer with The Strain, Guillermo del Toro of Pan's Labyrinth and the Hellboy series takes on the done-to-death vampire myth, but manages to stand it on its head.

The Banff Mountain Film Festival brings with it a dozen films over two nights that survey every offbeat sport there is, from rock and ice climbing and high altitude skiing, to BASE jumping and extreme unicycling. All of them are definitely worth seeing on the big screen.

While DogHaus is a show house in its truest sense, their designers still find ways to incorporate sly nods to animals, whether through the liberal use of houndstooth or, in one case, the Chinese foo dogs in a display cabinet.

a group of dedicated climbers has transformed an old quarry in the small town of Birdsboro southeast of Reading and blazed about 80 routes from very beginner to oh-my-god hard.

It's a shame most of us don't know much about the Leni Lenape people beyond our third-grade lessons on Billy Penn and their appearance in the works of James Fenimore Cooper.

Sarah Stolfa spent two years traveling the country investigating 21st-century America, and she presents images like Glendale, TX, where a lone figure stands in a field, dirty blanket over his shoulder, watching something — his house? — burn.

Freddie & Me: A Coming-of-Age (Bohemian) Rhapsody | Three Shadows | Life Sucks | Water Baby | A People's History of American Empire

Abandoned buildings serve as an endless source of inspiration, and in Philadelphia there's no shortage of them on their way to a pile of rubble or grand renovation.

Opening reception Sat., April 12, 6-9 p.m., exhibit runs through June 15, Yo Darkroom, 113 N. 23rd St., 215-789-9032, yodarkroom.com

Runs Feb. 9-May 4, $9.50-$20.50, Franklin Institute, 222 N. 20th St., 215-448-1200, fi.edu