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Gender
Billy Penn

Louis CK’s sold out Philly show and the challenge for sexual violence survivors

The comedian has turned his admitted harassment into a standup joke.

5 years ago

Changing Communities
Performing Arts

‘Renaissance in the Belly of a Killer Whale’ takes on gentrification, collective memory at the Wilma Theater

Three friends chronicle the gentrification of their changing hometown and call for a new Harlem Renaissance in the Wilma Theater’s newest production.

5 years ago

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James Lipton arrives at night one of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
TV

‘Inside the Actors Studio’ host James Lipton dies at 93

Lipton died of bladder cancer at his New York home, his wife, Kedakai Lipton, told the New York Times and the Hollywood Reporter. He was 93.

5 years ago

De'Von Pickett (left) was stabbed outside a Stenton Avenue bar in February 2015 before going on a tour. He was Nicki Minaj's stage manager. In this photo, Pickett is with friend Eric Parker (right). (instagram)
Criminal Justice
Music
Philadelphia

Man convicted of murder in Nicki Minaj crew member slaying

A man has been convicted of third-degree murder in the stabbing death of a Nicki Minaj crew member outside a Philadelphia bar five years ago.

5 years ago

The “Dispatches From Elsewhere” mural at the Comcast Center. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Philadelphia
TV
Billy Penn

‘Dispatches from Elsewhere’ drinking game: Watch Jason Segel’s Philly-set AMC show

Amid the weirdness, Philadelphians can expect plenty of familiar sights.

5 years ago

“Dispatches From Elsewhere” stars Eve Lindley (right) and Jason Segel (left) pose with local street artist Jimmy McMenamin's new mural at the Comcast Center. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Public Spaces
TV

All the city’s a stage: Jason Segel’s new TV show gifts Philly a mural of itself

On the eve of its premiere, the new AMC show created and starring Jason Segel gives thanks to Philadelphia.

5 years ago

Flowers atop the main exhibit of the 2020 Philadelphia Flower Show, themed “Rivera Holiday.” (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community Events
Philadelphia

Philadelphia Flower Show opens with a trip to the Cote d’Azur

The annual floral extravaganza has a Mediterranean theme, “Riviera Holiday,” recalling one of its famous native daughters.

5 years ago

Opera Philadelphia General Director David Devan and Pulitzer Prize winning composer Jennifer Higdon. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Music
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Opera Philadelphia opens next season with a real-life art heist

The 2020-2021 season will open with a new chamber opera about a major 2012 art heist at the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam.

5 years ago

Listen 2:00
Students performing as Queen Ramonda and her son, T’Challa, on stage during a rehearsal for the 'Black Panther' musical at Willingboro High School. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Music
New Jersey

‘Black Panther’ gets a musical premiere at Willingboro High School

A faith-based community theater company in New Jersey has turned the 2018 blockbuster superhero movie into a youth-empowering production.

5 years ago

Listen 2:21
(Billy Penn illustration; Twitter/@Phillies)
Philadelphia
Sports
Billy Penn

New look proves it: The Phillie Phanatic is a modern dinosaur

Scales, a rounder snout and a bigger backside all point to this conclusion.

5 years ago

Former model and restaurateur B. Smith arrives at the BET Honors red carpet in the Warner Theatre in Washington. B. Smith, became one of the first African-American models on the cover of Mademoiselle and later opened restaurants, revealed last year that she has Alzheimer's disease. (Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo, File)
Media
Pennsylvania

Western Pa. native, B. Smith, model turned lifestyle guru, dead at 70

Model, restaurateur and lifestyle guru Barbara "B." Smith has died at her Long Island home, her family announced in a statement on social media.

5 years ago

Playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger (provided)
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

With ‘Babel,’ a Philly playwright to get six world premieres

The drama, about a society that tolerates only perfect pregnancies tested in utero, is being mounted, and refined, at National New Play Network theaters.

5 years ago

The mobile 'Ghost' by Alexander Calder hangs in the Great Stair Hall of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Architecture & Design
Sculpture

New showcase for the work of sculptor Alexander Calder is making its way to the Parkway

A future “sanctuary” on Philadelphia’s Parkway will be devoted to the famed mobile artist and his artistic family.

5 years ago

Lightbox Chief Curator Jesse Pires has relocated the film center to The University of the Arts, where screenings will resume this month. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Movies
Philadelphia

Art house cinema finds a home on the Avenue of the Arts

Philadelphia’s only year-round art cinema venue moves across town to the Avenue of the Arts.

5 years ago

Listen 1:54
'Awakened in You,' an exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, celebrates the gift of Dr. Constance E. Clayton, a collector of African American art and former superintendent of Philadelphia public schools. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Race & Ethnicity
Visual Arts

PAFA displays Black art collection of Constance Clayton, former Philadelphia school superintendent

Constance Clayton has been collecting African American art for 30 years. She recently gave much of her collection to PAFA in Philadelphia.

5 years ago

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