
Arts & Entertainment
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
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
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
Listen 6:00Final 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
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
Listen 1:50Iconic 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
Listen 2:07On 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
Listen 6:13‘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
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
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
Listen 3:31A 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
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
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
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
Listen 1:24Birth 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