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A group of convention goers, some dressed as Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlett and Mrs. Peacock, participate in a Clue tournament at PAX Unplugged.)
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Gamers unplug at Philly PAX convention

Deep in the dark corners of the Pennsylvania Convention Center, something is stirring. Orcs, elves, and adventurers of all kinds are gath ...

6 years ago

Music

Jazz legend Herbie Hancock becomes first musician to receive Ben Franklin Medal

"I'm not a musician": Jazz legend Herbie Hancock opens up about music, science, and his relationship with Benjamin Franklin.

6 years ago

Philadelphia’s restored Metropolitan Opera House will open as a Live Nation Venue on Monday. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Restored to former glory, The Met opens on North Broad Street

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn talks with Geoff Gordon, Live Nation regional president who heads the team that will manage The Met on Philly's North Broad Street.

6 years ago

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Jessica Lang Dance performs
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Final call for Jessica Lang dance company

Jessica Lang Dance, a New York City company that has won the highest dance accolades, will fold in April.

6 years ago

The Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania is looking at its collection with fresh eyes. The gallery's “Citizen Salon,” is a crowdsourced exhibit, curated and commented upon by members of the public.
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UPenn opens crowd-curated art exhibition

The Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania opened the campus art collection to the internet; these are the ones upvoted to the top.

7 years ago

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Iconic Manhattan sculpture finds a new home in Collegeville, Pa.

An icon of bustling Rockefeller Center in NYC, the sculpture "Cubed Curve" is now on the leafy campus of Ursinus College.

7 years ago

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LeVar Burton is taking his story-reading podcast on the road with an appearance Tuesday evening at the Scottish Rite Auditorium in Collingswood, New Jersey. (Stitcher)
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On his new podcast, LeVar Burton has it all: ‘A microphone, a good story, and my voice’

WHYY Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn spoke with actor LeVar Burton ahead of his appearance at the Scottish Rite Auditorium in Collingswood, New Jersey Tuesday evening.

7 years ago

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Peruvian artist Kukulio Velarde is exhibiting her paintings at Taller Puertorriqueño in North Philadelphia.
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‘Freedom is very intoxicating’ says artist behind ‘The Complicit Eye’

Kukuli Velarde — a Peruvian-born, Philadelphia-based artist — has a first major show in her adopted home town.

7 years ago

Morgan Jamison and Alexis Sellers with Independent Makers of Philadelphia. (Kyrie Greenberg/WHYY News)
Business

Holiday market vendors hope for higher sales as LOVE park construction wraps

After enduring 2017’s reconstruction of LOVE park, local vendors at Philadelphia’s Holiday Markets say this year sales are merrier.

7 years ago

Porcelain dishes like this one that belonged to George Washington are being sent from Winterthur Museum in Delaware to China for an exhibit. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
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Delaware museum sends George Washington’s dishes back to China

While America and China have been at war of words over trade policy, a Delaware museum has been doing its own cultural diplomacy by helping Chinese scholars preserve history.

7 years ago

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Victoria Prizzia, who designed the
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A sea change at Independence Seaport Museum with new science of water exhibit

The Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia turns to science for its new exhibition about the Delaware River.

7 years ago

Most of the balloons remained grounded and only participated in the televised part of the parade. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Philadelphia

The cold can’t stop the Philadelphia tradition of the Thanksgiving Day Parade

The fact that the Thanksgiving Day Parade felt more like the bitter cold Mummers Day Parade didn't stop Alexis McCormick and her family. 

7 years ago

Handlers listen intently during the herding group competition at the National Dog Show in Oaks, Pa.
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Champs take a bow wow at National Dog Show

More than 3,000 dogs competed in the show in Oaks, Pennsylvania, sponsored by the Kennel Club of Philadelphia.

7 years ago

An architect's rendering of the proposed Anne Bryan Gallery at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. (Courtesy of PAFA)
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PAFA to name gallery after student killed in ’13 building collapse

Anne Bryan, an art student who died in the 2013 collapse of a Salvation Army building, will have a new PAFA art gallery named after her.

7 years ago

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German designer Dieter Rams speaks about the exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art surveying his career. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Birth of cool: 40-year retrospective of Dieter Rams’ product design at Philly art museum

If you’ve ever tried to imagine what a space-age bachelor pad might look like, this exhibition of his stereo equipment and modular furniture may come close.

7 years ago

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