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Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, and the biases that shape our choices.

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A rider waves to approving pedestrians who stopped to watch the Philly Naked Bike Ride make its way through Center City. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
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Philly Naked Bike Ride, Korn, Ukrainian Festival, Welsh Week in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Plus: salsa dancing, the Tony-nominated “Grand Horizons,” The Fishtown Card Show and the Art and Jazz Festival in Delaware.

4 years ago

Host Melissa Villaseñor on stage during the 2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Film Independent)
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The Independent Spirit Awards moves toward gender-neutral acting categories

The awards have announced the categories will now be "best lead performance" and "best supporting performance."

4 years ago

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Philadelphia
Sports

Phillies’ Harper homers in 1st at-bat in Triple-A rehab game

Phillies slugger Bryce Harper has hit a home run in his first at-bat for Philadelphia’s Triple-A team as part of his rehabilitation assignment from a broken left thumb.

4 years ago

Monnette Sudler in her Germantown apartment. (Alex Lewis for WHYY)
Music
Philadelphia

Trailblazing jazz guitarist Monnette Sudler has died at 70

The Queen of Philly Jazz played with the greats, and was a champion of female guitarists.

4 years ago

Tyler Dobrowsky and wife Taibi Magar pose with audience theater seats visible behind them.
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Philadelphia Theatre Company hires husband-and-wife team as artistic directors

Taibi Magar and Tyler Dobrowsky will helm the Philadelphia Theatre Company and its post-COVID growth.

4 years ago

Justin Faulker, director and conductor of the new Philadelphia Youth Jazz Orchestra,  a drummer with the Branford Marsalis Quartet and faculty member of Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance. (Bachrach Photography)
Music
Philadelphia

Philadelphia Youth Orchestra launches a jazz ensemble

After 82 years of teaching young people to perform classical music, one of the nation’s oldest youth orchestra programs is turning to big-band jazz.

4 years ago

A movie shot of Kristal Bush and her nephew. (Courtesy of A Woman on the Outside)
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Philadelphia

In ‘A Woman on the Outside’ documentary, Philadelphian Kristal Bush connects families with their loved ones behind bars

The film follows Kristal Bush, as she balances running a transportation company that takes families to see incarcerated loved ones with raising her own family.

4 years ago

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Tanya Mayeux, who manages the StoopingPHL Instagram account, says her favorite thing she's ever found is a small ship in a glass bottle. (Elizabeth Estrada/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Everything is ‘Free 99’: How a Philly ‘stooping’ account finds new homes for trashed items

“It's kind of empowering to flip items or give them a new life,” said Tanya Mayeux. “I love the idea of keeping whatever we can out of the landfill.”

4 years ago

Listen 1:52
Makoto Hirano uses sketches out the themes of ''The Great American Gunshow'' during an interactive performance in Bloomsburg, Pa. (Elizabeth S. Gorbey)
Gun Violence
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

The Great American Gunshow investigates the allure of guns

Team Sunshine Performance Corporation has begun a long-term theatrical investigation of America’s conflicted relationship with firearms.

4 years ago

Harold Verner III was the first player to tee off Thursday. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
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‘Our Super Bowl’: Golf fans celebrate as top PGA stars tee off in Wilmington

Officials expect the biggest sporting event in the history of northern Delaware to draw more than 130,000 fans, and pump tens of millions of dollars into the economy.

4 years ago

From left, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson and Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind & Fire perform at the Race to Erase MS drive-in event at the Rose Bowl, Friday, June 4, 2021, in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Philly Folk Fest, Santana and Earth Wind & Fire, Clay Fest in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

As the summer days wane, The Philadelphia Folk Festival celebrates 60 years. Plus Ardmore Rock & Ride and cultural festivals at Penn’s Landing.

4 years ago

Listen 5:09
Marty with Salman Rushdie  in 2010 when he came to talk about his book,
Radio Times

Salman Rushdie and defending freedom of expression

After the horrific attack on Salman Rushdie, we discuss the continued threats to free expression and why it's worth defending.

Air Date: August 17, 2022 10:00 pm

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Margo Price performs with her band at the Philadelphia Folk Festival
Music
Philadelphia

Philly Folk Festival returns in person for 60th anniversary

After two pandemic years digital, America’s longest-running outdoor festival returns to Old Poole Farm for its 60th anniversary.

4 years ago

Alex Smith looks at the camera and holds his comic book in front of him.
Books
LGBTQ
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

Kapow! Gay, Black superheroes take on fatphobia while saving an Afrofuturistic Philly

Black, gay, and heavy superheroes save an Afrofuturistic Philly in the new Alex Smith/James Dillenbeck comic "Black Vans."

4 years ago

City officials, musicians, and judges gathered at City Hall to discuss the returning PHL LIVE Center Stage competition on Aug. 15, 2022. (Cory Sharber/WHYY)
Music
Philadelphia

Do you have what it takes? PHL LIVE music competition returns

The city-sponsored event seeks to highlight Philadelphia’s top musical talent. Eleven winners will be awarded $1,000.

4 years ago

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