Reader Steve Palmer continues the conversation about the American Revolution Center at Valley Forge National Historical Park and encourages me to tie some of the comments together.  I’ve put links in to all of the previous comments and posts referenced in Steve’s comment:
Here’s an exercise for you Dan, if you’d like to provide some context [...]

Usually when folks think of WHYY and puppets, they think of some talkative little creatures with an inclination towards letters, numbers, near and far.
In a feature for WHYY’s Arts and Culture Desk, Alex Schmidt visited with some of the performers - both human and otherwise - who will taking part in the Philly Fringe. [...]

WHYY’s Alexis Landis visited Mountain Meadow Summer Camp, a camp for kids who are from LGBTQ (that’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) families or who are themselves LGBTQ.
You can click on this link to catch the story, which ran this afternoon WHYY.
The story was co-produced by WHYY’s John Sheehan.
They also brought back some photos from [...]

I’m a little late in posting this to The Sixth Square, but on Friday, Alex Schmidt did a quick story about a program headed up by the Asian Arts Initiative:
Chinatown Youth Radio Philadelphia (ChYRP) is an intensive, 3-week summer experience for high school students to create a blog and podcast featuring radio stories of Philadelphia [...]

Temple University’s Tyler School of Art is currently ranked in the top 15 art schools in the country. It’s about to make the move from its suburban setting in Elkins Park to join the rest of the Temple Campus in North Philadelphia.  From WHYY’s Arts and Culture desk, Alex Schmidt took a tour of the [...]

You may or may not have heard that the first Olympic gold medal awarded to an American was in women’s sabre - and the U.S. swept the event, picking up the silver and bronze as well.  While the U.S.’s lack of a long history of fencing and pedigree in most of the weapons means they don’t [...]

Wow. Where do I start. I guess a good beginning would be why I would want to blog about fencing.
I’ve been fencing since I was twelve, competing locally and nationally, and was a starter on the Brandeis University fencing team. Since college, I’ve been fencing consistently, though not competing anymore. I also taught fencing for [...]

WHYY’s Alex Schmidt talked to a number of different people from throughout the region’s arts and culture community to get their reactions to the impending reopening of the Philadelphia Office of Arts and Culture. The office has added “and Creative Economy” to its title to acknowledge the role that arts institutions play in creating [...]

WHYY’s Alex Schmidt filed a story about last night’s announcement of the 2008 Barrymore Awards.  In the piece she references several of the theater companies which are in line for the most awards.  After the jump, you can see the complete list of nominees.
[Source: The Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia]

In this week’s City Paper, Natalie Hope McDonald tells the story of a small but growing cadre of Philadelphia-based photographers who are using the photo-sharing site Flickr for all of its community-building glory.  Many of these folks go by pseudonyms that reflect their attachment to the City of Brotherly Love but they’ve taken to stepping [...]