Arts & Entertainment
Philadelphia Orchestra to welcome audiences back to the Kimmel next season
For its 2021-2022 season, the Orchestra will keep performing digital concerts while also welcoming audiences back to the Kimmel Center.
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New monument in North Philly honors women helping others survive long Pa. prison sentences
A temporary art installation acts as both a monument and memorial to honor the women and transgender people serving long sentences in Pa.
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Imposter posed as NYC art curator to spread supposed news of ‘missing Picasso’ in Philly
Billy Penn has retracted the story — and the perpetrator has gone silent.
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Despite pandemic, Atlantic City casinos reinvesting millions
The latest to open the corporate checkbook is Hard Rock, which told The Associated Press on Monday it will spend $20 million on renovations.
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African American Museum in Philadelphia announces new exhibit, May 6 reopening
The museum’s reopening marks the launch of a new exhibit that features a pioneering Philly graduate: ‘Anna Russell Jones: The Art of Design.’
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Truck in high-femme drag brings performances to Philly neighborhoods
Bearded Ladies Cabaret outfitted an old box truck into a stage on wheels, to bring queer-friendly performance into neighborhoods during the pandemic.
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‘Disaster Girl,’ the stuff of memes, sells for nearly $500,000 as NFT
Zoë Roth was internet famous before many of us knew what that was. When she was 4, her dad took a picture of her standing in front of a burning house and a firetruck.
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Roller skate under a hula-hoop canopy at Dilworth Park
Given the growing popularity of the nostalgic pastime and the strength of Philly’s homegrown skate scene, you may want to book tickets in advance.
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New museum for America and the Bible opens at Independence Mall
The Faith and Liberty Discovery Center in Philadelphia uses cutting-edge technology to tell the story of America’s relationship to religion.
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Franklin Institute to ‘reimagine’ itself for its bicentennial
The science museum on the Parkway has received a $1 million gift to develop new science exhibitions.
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Michelle Zauner, “Crying in H Mart”
Michelle Zauner's new memoir, Crying in H Mart, details the journey of grief, Korean food, identity, and memory that Zauner has been on since losing her mother.
Air Date: April 27, 2021
Listen 48:03The Woodmere Museum builds hugels as environmental art
The Woodmere Museum turns a traditional mounded gardening technique into land art.
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Listen 2:29Neon Museum lights up forgotten corners of Philly’s past
A new museum in a Kensington warehouse showcases vintage neon signs from a proud working-class past.
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If big box office means big ratings, this year’s Oscars are in big trouble
Most awards seasons find film fans seeking out Best Picture nominees in the runup to the telecast, with the eventual winner reaping millions of additional dollars.
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‘A New View’ in Camden: Citywide project to tackle illegal dumping through public art
Artists have transformed six places along Camden’s public transit corridors for the next six months. The larger goal is to boost civic pride and economic development.
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