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Billy Penn

Queer Eye’s Philly season is live on Netflix — here’s a guide in the form of a drinking game

There’s an overwhelming amount of colonial garb.

6 years ago

“Seven O’Clock Shout
Music
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Philadelphia Orchestra to premiere new work written for the pandemic

“Seven O’Clock Shout,” written and performed in isolation, is a tribute to moments of humanity during strife.

6 years ago

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Frank Rizzo mural
Philadelphia
Policing
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Frank Rizzo mural in South Philly to be replaced with better representation of neighborhood, leaders say

The nonprofit’s announcement came on the heels of the removal of another controversial Rizzo landmark: the 10-foot-tall bronze statue outside the Municipal Services Building.

6 years ago

Stone Pony Summer Stage
Down the Shore
Music
New Jersey

Iconic Jersey Shore venue cancels outdoor summer concert series

A venerable Asbury Park club revered for helping to launch some of New Jersey's musical legends has canceled its outdoor concert series amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

6 years ago

The ensemble in French choreographer Boris Charmatz's
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Fringe Festival to go on in the fall — with some changes

The 24th annual festival plans a mostly digital presentation of independent theater and performance art, to comply to COVID-19 distancing.

6 years ago

Delaware Shakespeare's
Delaware
Personal Finance
Public Health
Visual Arts

The show can go on, but when will it? Delaware theaters hesitant to reopen

Despite permission to hold performances under Phase 1 of the state’s reopening plan, Delaware theater groups and performers are hesitant to resume shows.

6 years ago

Sound Space Performing Arts
Dance
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Dance studios host drive-by recitals and YouTube tutorials to keep students on their toes

Ballerinas will twirl down the block during one social distancing ceremony.

6 years ago

Philadelphia Art Museum
Business
Income Inequality
Philadelphia

‘Inequities and biases’: Workers petition for union at Philadelphia Museum of Art ahead of reopening

A push for a union was brewing before the museum was shut because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

6 years ago

A robot portrait painter created a gallery of 'everyday geniuses'
Community Events
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Want to honor a local hero? Submit a photo and a robot will draw a portrait

The Da Vinci Art Alliance is soliciting for subjects to be rendered by a mechanical automaton.

6 years ago

Listen 1:45
The Woodland Cemetery Mansion in Philadelphia
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Sound artist makes creepy Edgar Allan Poe installation available in your home

An artist was planning a sound installation based on Edgar Allan Poe’s work into a historic Philly mansion. Thwarted by COVID-19, it can now be installed in your home.

6 years ago

Listen 2:22
Besty Casañas'
Philadelphia
Public Health
Race & Ethnicity
Visual Arts
Broke in Philly

“It kills us.” Philly’s Latinx artists cope with lost incomes and voices amid arts and culture cuts

Mayor Jim Kenney’s revised COVID-19 budget gutted the city’s funding to arts and culture and did away with the Office of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy.

6 years ago

Campers at Al-Bustan percussion camp.
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Arts groups are prepared for Philly budget cuts, but will fight elimination

As a new COVID-19 emergency budget threatens to eliminate the city’s Cultural Fund, organizations urge the mayor to spread out the fiscal pain.

6 years ago

Close up of a dictionary word
Philadelphia
Public Health

Coronavirus update: Pa. extends benefits window for unemployment compensation

A program to add 13 weeks to the amount of time residents of Pennsylvania can collect unemployment benefits launched over the weekend, said state officials.

6 years ago

Posters help people learn how to vote by mail
Elections
Public Health
Visual Arts

Grassroots art campaign: stay home and vote by mail

Philadelphia artists design a poster campaign to encourage people to stay home on election day and vote by mail.

6 years ago

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The Mural Arts Program installed works on storefronts boarded up due to coronavirus lockdowns in Center City. This cheerful squirrel across from City Hall is by artist Gina Triplett. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Business
Public Spaces
Visual Arts
Broke in Philly

How Mural Arts is helping artists get paid during the pandemic

Philly’s Mural Arts Program is finding ways to get artists work and to get them paid, despite concerns over looming budget cuts to arts funding and the city’s arts office.

6 years ago

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