
Arts & Entertainment
In end of 20th Century Fox, a new era dawns for Hollywood
When the Walt Disney Co.'s $71.3 billion acquisition of Fox is completed at 12:02 a.m. Wednesday, the storied lot will no longer house one of the six major studios.
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An off-season Fringe, with the spotlight on local successes
The new High Pressure Fire Service Festival, geared to locally based performers, runs through most of June, with a new show opening each month.
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How a massive Robinson Fredenthal sculpture moved to Chestnut Hill in the dead of night
The “White Water” sculpture had been in downtown Philadelphia for 40 years. It now lives on the front lawn of the Woodmere Museum.
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Listen 1:57Kung fu to zombies, remembering the Trocadero
Philly’s 150-year-old Chinatown concert venue will close at the end of the month.
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Will whistle for work: Orchestra whistles tribute to Philly’s labor history
Temple art gallery has commissioned a UK artist to compose and assemble an orchestra of local whistlers in Philadelphia.
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Listen 3:36Women artists celebrated in song at Philly Museum of Art
Birdie Busch will perform a suite of songs based on female artists in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Asian Arts Initiative showcases art striving to cast out caste system
The Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia is exhibiting work by a group of Dalit, once known as “untouchables,” to protest that social hierarchy.
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Archives of radio show illuminate Philly’s love affair with reggae of ‘80s and ‘90s
Recordings of the “Caribbean World Rhythms” radio show bring back the bright, sun-splashed sounds of reggae.
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Listen 7:13Two visions of African spirituality at the African American Museum
A photojournalist and a fine-art photographer collaborate on a dual exhibition of the Baye Fall of Senegal and the indigenous deities of Sierra Leone.
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Listen 2:11At Wilmington’s 76ers Fieldhouse, hoops make way for hoopla of concerts, celebrities
The new Wilmington sports arena for the 76ers G League team drew well for an O.A.R. concert. Rap queen Cardi B will host a party there in April.
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Listen 2:16The production affirms Arden Theatre Company as the region's major producer of August Wilson's work.
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“Vessels,” a premiere work this weekend at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia, imagines how captured African women might have survived the Middle Passage.
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Listen 2:10In a Philadelphia first, artist collective becomes property owner
Space 1026, being forced out of its current location, becomes the first artist collective in Philadelphia to buy a building.
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Laurie Halse Anderson’s new memoir ‘Shout’
A conversation with YA fiction writer Laurie Halse Anderson on her own sexual assault when she was 13 years old and how to talk to young people about sexual violence.
Air Date: March 6, 2019 10:00 am
Listen 49:45Luke Perry dead at 52 after suffering stroke
A publicist for Luke Perry says the "Riverdale" and "Beverly Hills, 90210" star has died. He was 52.
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