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The new “Mythic Creatures” exhibit opens at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University on Saturday (Xavier Lopez for WHYY)
Kids
Philadelphia

New exhibit explores mythic creatures to understand human imagination

The new “Mythic Creatures” exhibit opens at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Saturday.

6 years ago

Clare O’Malley (center) delivers a sweet, searing Joan who dazzles all with her confidence and determination in Delaware Theatre Company's production of
Delaware
Performing Arts

Delaware Theatre’s ‘Saint Joan’ a story of determination

Clare O’Malley delivers a sweet, searing Joan who dazzles all with her confidence and determination in Delaware Theatre Company's production of "Saint Joan" in Wilmington.

6 years ago

Books

How the ‘worst alphabet book ever’ brings levity to kids learning how to read

The book pokes fun at silent letters in the English language and some other funky phonetic exceptions.

6 years ago

Listen 2:15
Gregg Goodbrod and Sarah Gliko in
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts

A sentimental journey over ‘The Bridges of Madison County’ at Philadelphia Theatre Company

A photographer, a housewife and a show that doesn't know when to stop.

6 years ago

Tierra Whack arrives at the 61st annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles last Sunday. She's wearing a coat designed by Nancy Volpe Beringer of Philadelphia and a dress with images painted by Liz Goldberg, a Philadelphia artist. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Philadelphia

Philly designer’s coat makes a statement on Grammy Awards red carpet

Tierra Whack wore a rainbow-colored, faux-fur to the Grammy Awards’ red carpet last weekend. The outfit went viral, catapulting a Philadelphia designer into the limelight.

6 years ago

Listen 6:14
Pearce Bunting runs through a rehearsal of
Neighborhoods
Performing Arts

South Philly’s Theatre Exile finds bargain-basement home right where it started

The South Philadelphia theater company lost its home of 10 years. Now, it’s moving back to a bigger, better — albeit underground — stage.

6 years ago

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LOVE Park manager Andrew Emma holds new granite block for sale (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Philadelphia

LOVE Park keepsakes for sale, now in heart shapes and controversy free

Your chance to get a piece of Philadelphia’s LOVE Park continues, as a second round of granite bricks have again been turned into paperweights — in time for Valentine's Day.

6 years ago

The Walnut-Locust subway station has become a gallery for 30 local artists who participated in
Public Spaces
Visual Arts

An anti-advertising campaign of artwork takes over Philadelphia subway station

Thirty Philadelphia artists submitted work that has replaced all advertising in the Walnut-Locust Station.

6 years ago

Listen 1:53
Ruby Wolf (left) and Rachel Brodeur in
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts

‘Box Clever’ and boxed in at life, from Inis Nua Theatre Company

A desperate single mother bares her soul, but not effectively until the play's very end.

6 years ago

Lady Alma is a Philadelphia-based, house music singer whose career is restarting after an international viral video. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Media
Music
Philadelphia

Lady Alma put music aside until viral South African video of her song revived it

A stranger lip-syncing to one of her songs in South Africa has propelled a Philadelphia singer to resume her career.

6 years ago

Listen 4:55
David Lebe's
LGBTQ
Visual Arts

Life, then death. Then life again. 50 years of pictures by David Lebe

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has the first major retrospective of David Lebe’s experimental photography, tracing his life as a gay man for a half-century.

6 years ago

Listen 2:16
Brittany Holdahl in Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium's production of
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

A ‘Dream Girl,’ overwhelmed by her space with Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium

Her mind takes off into daydreams, but the play is earth-bound by echoing sound where it's performed.

6 years ago

Curator Alexander Kauffman describes the role of Picasso's
Philadelphia

Rodin’s radical public monuments on display in Philadelphia

The Rodin Museum in Philadelphia keeps alive a discussion about public monuments started in 2017 by the Monument Lab.

6 years ago

Opera Philadelphia will bring a contemporary design to the baroque opera,
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Opera Philadelphia to open next season with a Russian tragedy

Opera Philadelphia has commissioned “Denis and Katya,” an opera based on the 2016 shooting deaths of two Russian teens in a self-inflicted explosion of violence.

6 years ago

Carlo Campbell (left) and Kyle Glenn in InterAct Theatre Company's production of
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts

‘Hype Man’ and the kitchen sink at InterAct Theatre Company

Hip-hop performers argue over the purpose of a public forum.

6 years ago

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