WHYY’s Susan Phillips jumped over to the arts and culture side of the news operation for the day and did a great interview of Father Michael Doyle - Camden’s “Poet of Poverty” - whose poetry provides the narration for a new documentary about one of New Jersey’s most challenged cities.
The piece opens with perhaps the [...]

It’s not too late.  Tonight at 6pm (40 minutes from now) The Rosenbach Museum will be hosting a discussion of the influences of his sexuality on “Wild Things” author and illustrator Maurice Sendak.
WHYY’s Alex Schmidt previewed the discussion, led by Rosenbach Director of Education Bill Adair, in this piece which ran today on 91FM.

WHYY’s Arts and Culture reporter, Alex Schmidt, got a preview of a traveling exhibition that examines the African presence in Mexico. Hosted by the African American Museum at 7th and Arch - right around the corner, I should go check it out - the exhibition opens tomorrow.
You can listen to Alex’s piece here.
According to [...]

I’ve been following the 100k House blog for a few months now and I’m looking forward to seeing how it ends. Hopefully they’ll have an easier time dealing with the city than I have in my quest to get a business privilege license and a renter’s license.
Anyway, WHYY’s Alex Schmidt checked in on the [...]

On Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof’s artblog, you’ll be captivated by the riveting account of one artist’s harrowing trip to the El from his studio. (Part Two is here.)
I bring it up for a couple of reasons.
1. Artists often have a way of looking at the world that doesn’t automatically make snap judgments about the [...]

At the risk of disrupting the great discussion going on at my original post, I wanted to point out a couple of things that have been brought up by our commenters.
First, WHYY’s Alex Schmidt, the reporter who produced the original piece offered some great additional material that she didn’t have time to include in the [...]

In 1777 American rebels, broken, demoralized, undisciplined and on the edge of desertion, put up camp on some rolling hills about 10 miles from Philadelphia. As explained by USHistory.org, they emerged several months later “anxious to fight the British.”
Well, it’s 230 years later and the battle lines are being drawn once again, but this [...]

As you may have already heard, director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Anne d’Harnoncourt, died at her home last night. She was 64 years old.
D’Harnoncourt had been with the Museum in various capacities since 1972 and her death is a real loss for anyone and everyone involved with the arts and [...]

One school is an affluent, private Quaker institution and has a very competitive academic atmosphere, a diverse student body, a staggering tuition but plenty of resources to help students and their families defray those costs.
The other is a Philadelphia public school with a lot of pride, its own share of struggles, a storied history and [...]