Arts & Entertainment
Alcaraz stops Tiafoe’s US Open run for 1st Grand Slam final
Alcaraz will face No. 7 Casper Ruud for the championship on Sunday with so much on the line.
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National Liberty Museum shines a light on truth
In its new civic dialogue exhibition, the museum asked video installation artists for work about the truth and its slippery surface.
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Bonus Interview: Steel Pier and The Last ‘Diving Horse’
From the Radio Times archive, we visit our interview about Atlantic City's Steel Pier, dangerous animal stunts and the last diving horse in America.
Air Date: September 10, 2022 6:00 am
Listen 49:13MLB adopts pitch clock, shift limits, bigger bases for 2023
The changes had long been pushed by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred in an effort to combat the increase in dead time and suffocation of offense in the age of analytics.
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Philly’s Fringe Festival touts hundreds of daring, defying, delightful performances
Me and Jesus and Prince and Captain Jean-Luc Picard as performance art can only mean one thing: The Philly Fringe Festival is back for the 2022 edition.
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Listen 5:38Sept. 8 - Sept. 11: The Fringe Fest begins in Philadelphia, Ringo Starr comes to the Met, The Disco Biscuits are in Delaware, and Wu-Tang and Nas hit the stage in New Jersey.
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Listen 4:49Basketball icon Sue Bird plays her last game after two legendary decades in the WNBA
She retires as the winningest WNBA player of all time.
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Tiafoe becomes first American man to reach the U.S. Open semifinals since 2006
The 24-year-old Tiafoe was backed by a boisterous partisan crowd in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
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Rocky the Musical is getting its Philly debut, but first, cheesesteaks
The iconic Philly story premiered on Broadway in 2014 for six months, then all but disappeared. It opens at Walnut Street Theatre in October.
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New Calder museum plans revealed for the Parkway
The Calder Gardens will be built along the Parkway in Philadelphia in 2023, pairing Alexander Calder’s famous mobiles with natural landscaping.
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Ruby Bridges, desegregation trailblazer, writes kid’s book
“I Am Ruby Bridges” goes on sale Tuesday. It’s aimed at readers as young as 4 at a time when teaching the history of race in America has never been more difficult.
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CIA photos from U-2 spy planes of the 1950s have new life in archeology at Penn Museum
The Penn Museum is showing declassified images from 13 miles in the air, giving archeologists new tools to study ancient cities.
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Barack Obama wins Emmy for narrating national parks series
The former president won the best narrator award at Saturday's Creative Arts Emmys for his work on the Netflix documentary series, “Our Great National Parks.”
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Thousands pack Ben Franklin Parkway to celebrate the end of summer at Made in America
Performers included Philadelphia natives Jazmine Sullivan and Lil Uzi Vert, as well as headliners Tyler, the Creator and Bad Bunny.
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Listen 1:10Performance ‘hubs’ keep Philly Fringe growing
Collectively produced artists keep costs low and creativity high.
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