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Every week listeners hear stories about race and identity that expand their minds, and learn practical ways to make their lives better. It's lifelong learning that ranges from the big picture to tiny details and everything in between.

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Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Up close with the surprisingly detailed dinosaurs at the Philadelphia Zoo

“Big Time” is great for kids, but also makes for a perfect outdoor date or day spent with friends.

5 years ago

Young girls dancing in colorful costumes at the Cherry Street Pier
Dance
Philadelphia
Public Spaces
Visual Arts

Pennsylvania Ballet spreads its wings at the Cherry Street Pier

A collaborative dance and visual art installation at the Cherry Street Pier put the classical dance company in front of audiences again.

5 years ago

Redesigned Lenfest Hall at the Philadelphia Museum of Art West Entrance opens onto a soaring event space and new galleries. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Architecture & Design
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Art Museum renovation changes the building, and perspectives

This weekend, the Philadelphia Museum of Art unveils its “Core Project,” a major renovation project four years in the making.

5 years ago

Artist Serena Saunders with her mural 'The Path' at the Bulletin Building across from 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Business
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

A West Philly artist is the latest designer to bring the old Bulletin Building into the future

Artist Serena Saunders manifested her commission to create a mural for the 3025 Market St. icon on social media.

5 years ago

Independence Hall in Old City. (Courtesy of Visit Philly)
Business
Economic Development
Philadelphia

Philly tourism expecting a big summer as COVID numbers trend down

Visit Philly has launched a tourism marketing campaign, to show people fed up with pandemic isolation where to go to enjoy the season.

5 years ago

Cellist Ajibola Rivers performs with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra
Music
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

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.

5 years ago

An exhibition at the Village of Arts and Humanities in North Philadelphia
Gender
Incarceration
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

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.

5 years ago

Photo of the flier
Philadelphia
Visual Arts
Billy Penn

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.

5 years ago

Gary Royster of Atlantic City holds up a wad of cash he used to gamble at the Hard Rock casino in Atlantic City
Business
New Jersey

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.

5 years ago

Anna Russell Jones is pictured sitting
History
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

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.’

5 years ago

Performer Virgil Gadson rehearsed with the Bearded Ladies Cabaret on April 28, 2021. Gadson is one of the featured performers for the first show performed with the Beardmobile, a mobile stage. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
LGBTQ
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

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.

5 years ago

Disaster Girl (Dave Roth)
NPR

‘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.

5 years ago

The Rothman Orthopaedics Roller Rink at Dilworth Plaza welcomed its first skaters on April 30, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Philadelphia

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.

5 years ago

The Beacon at the Faith and Liberty Discovery Center starts in the lobby and continues through the roof. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
History
Philadelphia
Religion

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.

5 years ago

The Franklin Institute. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Business
Philadelphia
Technology

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.

5 years ago

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