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Arts & Entertainment

A mural commemorating the Eagles’ Super Bowl win is being installed on Sansom Street between 13th and Broad streets in Center City Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Super Bowl Champs set to soar with a Center City mural

Best viewed on the corner of Broad and Sansom streets, the “Bringing It Home” mural is scheduled for completion this week.

7 years ago

 Nick Stuccio is president and producing director of Fringe Arts. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Philadelphia

Philadelphia Fringe Festival takes audiences to interesting spaces

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn speaks with Nick Stuccio, president & producing director of the FringeArts about this year's festival.

7 years ago

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor talks about a passage from her children's book,
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‘You have to have hope:’ Sotomayor brings messages for children to Free Library

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has just published two books for young readers about her life story. She presented them at the Free Library of Philadelphia.

7 years ago

(Photo credit/Peter Ralson)
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Movies
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Reconsidering Andrew Wyeth

Guests: Glenn Holsten, Kathleen Foster, Mary Landa The painting “Christina’s World” is instantly recognizab ...

Air Date: September 5, 2018 10:20 am

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Miss Louisiana Laryssa Bonacquisti reacts after advancing to the evening gown round of the Miss America 2018 pageant, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017, in Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo/ Noah K. Murray)
Radio Times
Gender
New Jersey

Miss America makeover

Guests: Heather French Henry, Jessica Bennett, Amy Kuperinsky, Crystal Lee Fifty-one young women are in Atlantic ...

Air Date: September 4, 2018 10:00 am

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DJ Gleason and the ensemble in the Act II Playhouse production of
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Performing Arts

In Act II Playhouse’s ‘Biloxi Blues,’ a production that becomes a tribute

Days after Neil Simon died, the theater in Ambler opened his Tony-award winning show.

7 years ago

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The oar-powered Draken Harald Harfagre viking ship is moored at Penn's Lansing, on Monday. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Philadelphia

Viking ship invades Penn’s Landing; tourists welcomed

The Draken, the largest recreation of a Viking warship in the world, is currently docked at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia.

7 years ago

Nick Foles catching a touchdown pass in the Super Bowl
Philadelphia
Sports

Nick Foles will start for Eagles vs Falcons in season opener

Eagles coach Doug Pederson says Nick Foles will start against the Atlanta Falcons on Thursday night.

7 years ago

Record producer Clive Davis speaks during the funeral service for Aretha Franklin at Greater Grace Temple, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, in Detroit. Franklin died Aug. 16, 2018 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 76. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Clive Davis recalls Franklin’s perfectionism

Record giant Clive Davis remembered Aretha Franklin as a woman with a thirst for knowledge, as a “true Renaissance woman” — ...

7 years ago

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

Time for some boundary-pushing (and lots of dance) during Philly Fringe Festival 2018

For 18 days, the news arts season begins with another round of the unforeseen

7 years ago

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Young students work on a dance number during Hamilton Camp at Music Theatre Philly.
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Music
Performing Arts

Kids go ham for ‘Hamilton’ at Music Theatre Philly camp

A 'Hamilton' musical theater summer camp puts kids in the room where it happens.

7 years ago

Wes Matthews, 17, a rising senior at Science Leadership Academy, is Philadelphia's new Youth Poet Laureate.
Philadelphia
Poetry

Philadelphia names youth poet laureate

Wes Matthews, 17, has been named Philadelphia's youth poet laureate. He moved here from Detroit just a year ago.

7 years ago

Current members of the Dixie Hummingbirds and Ira Tucker Jr. (right), announce celebrations to mark the group's 90th anniversary. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Music
Philadelphia

Dixie Hummingbirds celebrate 90th anniversary with yearlong flight

In 2000, the Philadelphia-based gospel group was deemed a "national treasure" by the National Endowment for the Arts.

7 years ago

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Addiction
Homelessness
TV

New documentary series shows the struggles, triumphs of ‘Getting off the Streets’ in Camden

“Getting Off the Streets,” a new documentary that shines a spotlight on a “zero tolerance” rehabilitation program for homeless men in Camden, New Jersey.

7 years ago

Artist Brendan Lowry stands beside his contribution to the Trashcan Takeover project at 17th and Locust streets.
Media
Public Spaces
Visual Arts

Trashcan Takeover replaces ads with art on Philly cans

The Trashcan Takeover campaign to put art on public trash cans hits back at tasteless advertising.

7 years ago

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