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Children playing in the water play area at Philadelphia's Please Touch Museum
Kids
Philadelphia

Please Touch Museum returning after yearlong hiatus

Like children’s museums everywhere, the Please Touch Museum faces unique challenges to staying sanitized during a pandemic.

5 years ago

Michael Forman, of the Forman Arts Initiative (Courtesy of The Philadelphia Foundation)
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity
Visual Arts

New philanthropic organization to give $3M to Philadelphia arts

The Forman Art Initiative is launching, with a 5-year grant program focused on BIPOC artists and community-based arts organizations.

5 years ago

Jessica Walter, at the Season 5 premiere of Arrested Development. (Rich Fury/Getty Images)
NPR
TV

‘Arrested Development’ star Jessica Walter dies at 80

Jessica Walter, who played the hilariously incisive matriarch Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development, died in her sleep Wednesday in New York City. She was 80 years old.

5 years ago

The ensemble in '74 Seconds ... to Judgment' at Arden Theatre Company. (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Arden Theatre recreates ’74 Seconds… to Judgment’ as an audio-only experience

The events of 2020 have given “74 Seconds...to Judgment,” by Philadelphia theater artist Kash Goins, renewed relevance.

5 years ago

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Taller Puertoriqueño was one of the places that connected Alba Martínez to Philly's local Latino communities when she moved to the city from Puerto Rico. | Taller Puertoriqueño fue uno de los lugares que conectó a Alba Martínez con las comunidades latinas locales de Filadelfia cuando se mudó a la ciudad desde Puerto Rico. (Bernardo Morillo/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Music
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Bilingual version

La Gua Gua 47: A salsa song compuesta por una latina poderosa, Alba Martínez

La Gua Gua 47— the 47 Bus —honors the summer day in 1985 when Martínez rode SEPTA to the heartbeat of Philadelphia’s caribeña community.

5 years ago

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Taller Puertoriqueño was one of the places that connected Alba Martínez to Philly's local Latino communities when she moved to the city from Puerto Rico. | Taller Puertoriqueño fue uno de los lugares que conectó a Alba Martínez con las comunidades latinas locales de Filadelfia cuando se mudó a la ciudad desde Puerto Rico. (Bernardo Morillo/WHYY)
Music
Race & Ethnicity
Transportation
Version en Español

La Gua Gua 47: Una canción de salsa compuesta por una latina poderosa, Alba Martínez

La Gua Gua 47— the 47 Bus —honors the summer day in 1985 when Martínez rode SEPTA to the heartbeat of Philadelphia’s caribeña community.

5 years ago

Listen 4:52
Taller Puertoriqueño was one of the places that connected Alba Martínez to Philly's local Latino communities when she moved to the city from Puerto Rico. | Taller Puertoriqueño fue uno de los lugares que conectó a Alba Martínez con las comunidades latinas locales de Filadelfia cuando se mudó a la ciudad desde Puerto Rico. (Bernardo Morillo/WHYY)
Music
Race & Ethnicity
Transportation
English version

La Gua Gua 47: A salsa song written by SEPTA stan and Latina powerhouse Alba Martínez

“La Gua Gua 47” — the 47 Bus — honors the summer day in 1985 when Martínez rode SEPTA to the heartbeat of Philadelphia’s caribeña community.

5 years ago

Listen 4:52
A view of Clementon Amusement Park from up above
New Jersey
Real Estate

Clementon Park and Splash World hits the auction block

Clementon Park and Splash World — a New Jersey amusement and water park that operated for over 100 years — is going on the auction block Tuesday.

5 years ago

Art installation that tells the story of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges at Curio Theatre in West Philly
History
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

West Philly theatrical installation tells the life of 18th century Black French composer

Curio Theatre in West Philly built a walk-through installation that tells the story of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

5 years ago

Listen 1:28
A scene from 'The Island We Made' by Angélica Negrón. (Opera Philadelphia)
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Puerto Rican composer collabs with drag queen Sasha Velour in new Opera Philadelphia film

Puerto Rican composer Angélica Negrón and drag queen Sasha Velour explore mother-daughter relationships in new short film for Opera Philadelphia.

5 years ago

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James Levine conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra
NPR
Music
National

James Levine, former Met Opera music director, is dead at age 77

Levine's singular tenure at the Metropolitan Opera ended in a flurry of accusations of sexual abuse.

5 years ago

Rebekkah Lee Krumenacker appears in the Open Stage production of
Music
Performing Arts
Public Health

Philly arts institutions use COVID downtime to focus on accessibility and diversity

One silver lining of the yearlong pandemic is many theater companies have started putting plays and performances online.

5 years ago

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Three of the women who sing about their plight — and their hopes — on the album I've Forgotten Now Who I Used To Be. Their names are withheld to protect their physical safety because they have been accused of witchcraft. (Marilena Umuhoza Delli)
NPR
International
Music
Social Justice

Banished ‘witches’ sing of their pain — and their dreams

An estimated 1,000 women in northern Ghana have fled their homes because of witchcraft accusations — and the fear that they will be physically attacked as a result.

5 years ago

Adam Weiner (right) and Will Donnelly of Low Cut Connie . (Emad Hasan0
Music
Philadelphia
Public Health

Philly musicians scream, sweat, strip to rock out in a lockdown

“When there is an audience, I am involved with the audience and I thrive off their participation. But it's the music that ultimately injects that electricity into me,”

5 years ago

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Radio Times
Books
Race & Ethnicity

“In Search of The Color Purple”

Salamishah Tillet on the power of Alice Walker's 1982 iconic novel, how its lessons continue to resonate today, and how she's found healing in its pages.

Air Date: March 8, 2021 10:00 am

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