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Arts & Entertainment

Eastern State Penitentiary’s Halloween Nights Festival, featuring 5 haunted attractions, kicks off on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community Events
Incarceration
Philadelphia

Halloween Nights Festival to make a spooky return to Eastern State Penitentiary

Festival begins on Friday, Sept. 23, and continues on selected nights through Nov. 12. Includes haunted houses, historic tours, and live entertainment.

4 years ago

Neil deGrasse Tyson's latest book,
Radio Times
Books
Explainers
Space

Cosmic perspectives with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson writes, "Objective truths of science are not founded in belief systems. They are not established by the authority of leaders or the power of persuasion."

Air Date: September 20, 2022 10:00 am

Listen 49:29
A basketball player holds up a trophy as her teammates surround her to celebrate.
National
Sports

Las Vegas Aces win first WNBA title, Chelsea Gray named MVP

Chelsea Gray scored 20 points to lead the Las Vegas Aces to their first WNBA title in a 78-71 road win over the Connecticut Sun in Game 4.

4 years ago

Sissel Tolaas stops to smell a wall imbedded with the recorded and replicated sweat of anxious men at her exhibit ''RE______'' at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Penn. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Dollars and scents: Follow your nose through this exhibition at ICA

Norwegian artist Sissel Tolaas has been exploring smells for 25 years. The ICA at Penn is hosting the largest U.S. retrospective of her installation work.

4 years ago

The cast of ''Mushroom'' takes the stage at People's LIght Theatre, in a set that replicates a mushroom farm. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Mushroom farmers come out of the dark in new People’s Light play

“Mushroom” at People’s Light and Theater focuses on communities of immigrant laborers in Kennett Square’s enormous mushroom industry.

4 years ago

Dave Lee of Pizza Jawn (center right, with serving ladle) brings pizza ovens to his Eagles tailgate, and shares food with dozens of others. (Daviston Jeffers)
Community Events
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Philadelphia
Sports
Billy Penn

How to tailgate the Eagles like you mean it: Tips from fans who go hard

Where to go, what to bring, and how to avoid being a jerk.

4 years ago

Artist-in-residence Shimon Attie created an 11-foot-tall replica of Bethlehem's 90-toot Star Tower for his exhibit at Lehigh University Art Galleries. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Changing Communities
History
Movies
Pennsylvania

Bethlehemites are ‘Starstruck’ by an art film about their own history

Lehigh University Art Gallery asked New York artist Shimon Attie to make “Starstruck,” a film and sculptural installation about the history of Bethlehem, Pa.

4 years ago

File photo: A poster advertising ''The Phantom of the Opera,'' is displayed on the shuttered Majestic Theatre in New York, March 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
National
Performing Arts

‘The Phantom of the Opera’ to close on Broadway next year

The musical — a fixture on Broadway since 1988, weathering recessions, war and cultural shifts — will play its final performance on Broadway in February.

4 years ago

A jersey worn by Michael Jordan during the 1998 NBA championships has sold at auction for $10.1 million. (Sotheby's)
NPR
History
National
Sports

A Michael Jordan jersey is sold for over $10 million, setting a new record

The basketball legend wore the jersey during the 1998 NBA finals, which would cap the Chicago Bulls' historic championship run in the 1990s. The sale price set a record for ga

4 years ago

(6abc)
Business
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Philadelphia
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Visual Arts
6abc

Nearly 200 employees walk off job at Philadelphia Museum of Art

Members of the union said they plan on returning to work over the weekend with the goal to resume negotiations next week.

4 years ago

(Clockwise: Quinta Brunson in Abbott Elementary, photograph Giles Minjasson/ABC; Milly Alcock in House of the Dragon, photograph HBO; The Bear with Jeremy Allen White, Lionel Boyce and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, photograph FX; Steve Carell in The Patient, photograph FX)
Radio Times
TV

How we watch TV: networks, streaming, and fall previews

Fall TV used to be a big deal with all the network premiers but streaming platforms changed that. This hour, how we watch television and what to watch.

Air Date: September 16, 2022 10:00 am

Listen 49:31
File photo: Philadelphia Museum of Arts is opening a new department for African and African Diasporic art.  (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Employment
Philadelphia

Union workers at Philadelphia Museum of Art plan one-day strike

After 22 months of negotiations with art museum management, PMA union workers are taking action with a one-day strike.

4 years ago

'I have played more than 1,500 matches over 24 years,' Roger Federer said as he announced his retirement at age 41. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
NPR
Sports

Roger Federer announces his retirement from competitive tennis

Over his career, Federer has won more than 100 titles total and amassed a 1,251-275 record, according the ATP, which adds that he never retired from a match.

4 years ago

Quinta Brunson checks on Jimmy Kimmel as he lays on stage at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards
TV

‘Abbott Elementary’ creator Quinta Brunson visits Kimmel, collects apology

Brunson played her own gag on Jimmy Kimmel's Emmy prank with one of her own, and then collected an apology from the late-night host whose bit was criticized.

4 years ago

(Courtesy of Valley Creek Productions)
Things To Do
Community Events
Music
Performing Arts
Visual Arts

XPoNential Music Festival, Coatesville Grand Prix, Diamond State Film Fest, Roxy Music, and more in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Sept. 15 - Sept.18: Diamond State Film Festival in Delaware, Coatesville Grand Prix, and XPoNential Music Fest in Camden are among the weekend’s best events.

4 years ago

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