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Arts & Entertainment

People cool off in the mister at the Eakins Oval pop-up park. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Things To Do
Philadelphia
July 18-24, 2019

Festivals celebrating female-powered music and indie filmmaking, family-friendly events and more

It’s the middle of summer, and a bumper crop of festivals are ripe for the picking. Here are some offerings. Now, select your favorites.

6 years ago

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Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. prepares to enter the gondola of a centrifuge which is used to test gravitational stress on astronauts training for space flight. Schirra became the pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 8 six-orbit space mission. Photo taken at Johnsville Naval Air Development Center, Warminster, Pennsylvania. Date Taken:1960-01-01 (NASA)
History
Space

Former astronaut training ground in Bucks County could become a museum

Naval Air Development Center, a research campus in Warminster Township, played a critical role in sending astronauts to the moon.

6 years ago

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A museum patron pauses at the west entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to look at
Architecture & Design
Public Spaces
Sculpture

Two Philadelphia Art Museum sculptures are moving across town

Monumental sculptures at one of the entrances of the Philadelphia Museum of Art will be removed to make room for building renovations by Frank Gehry.

6 years ago

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Revelers (from left) Francesca Negron, Ann Patricia, and Katherine Patterson, wear period costumes for the final Bastille Day performance on July 14, 2018. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
Business
Performing Arts

Fraternité! Bastille Day to rise again in Fairmount

The French holiday spurred a beloved farce at historic Eastern State Penitentiary that ended last year. Now, local businesses are picking up the torch.

6 years ago

Ebony Pullum and Nathan Alford-Tate perform 'FOURTEEN' at the National Constitution Center. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
History
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Performing the Reconstruction Era (in its own words) in ‘FOURTEEN’ at National Constitution Center

The National Constitution Center’s Civil War and Reconstruction exhibition is accompanied by a play adapted entirely from historic texts.

6 years ago

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Radio Times
Books
LGBTQ

Nicole Dennis-Benn on her new novel, “Patsy”

The critically acclaimed author of "Here Comes the Sun" discusses her new novel, which tackles motherhood, immigration, and sexual identity.

Air Date: July 10, 2019 10:00 am

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Carolyn Brooks Rice cheers when her green and white wristband gets a favorable time slot in the rush to buy tickets to see
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Hundreds line up for their shot at Philly ‘Hamilton’ tickets

Those putting on the Broadway hit in Philadelphia have an elaborate plan to sell tickets while minimizing how many go to ticket resellers.

6 years ago

A flood abatement project in the Netherlands also aims to create a more attractive river landscape. It is one of 25 projects featured in the University of Pennsylvania's exhibit in tribute to landscape architect Ian McHarg. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Architecture & Design
Environment
Higher Education

Not over the hill: ‘Design With Nature,’ Ian McHarg’s landmark book of ecological design turns 50

The father of modern landscape design wrote the book that set the 1970s environmental movement on course.

6 years ago

Beneath the sheer fabric of Asmaa Diab's
Immigration
Visual Arts

Displaced Iraqis and Syrians in Philly try to shift the ‘refugee narrative’ through art

The refugees of the “Friends, Peace, & Sanctuary” exhibitions want people to look past their scars of war and see them as creative members of American society.

6 years ago

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Nondumiso Tembe as Cleopatra and Neal Bledsoe as Marc Antony in rehearsal for Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s production of 'Antony and Cleopatra' opening for previews Wednesday. (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival)
Shapiro on Theater
Pennsylvania
Performing Arts

On power, privacy, and gender politics: ‘Antony and Cleopatra,’ at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival

Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra” runs July 10 through Aug. 4 as part of the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival.

6 years ago

This June 26, 2019 photo released by Sony Pictures shows, from left, Angourie Rice, Zach Barack and Remy Hii at the world premiere of
LGBTQ
Movies

Marvel’s first openly trans actor calls for more portrayals

Zach Barack plays a classmate of Peter Parker's in "Spider-Man: Far From Home." His gender identity is not addressed in the brief role.

6 years ago

 2018 exhibit at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University celebrated the artistic legacy of MAD magazine. (Andrew Welsh-Huggins/AP)
NPR
Comedy
Media

Satirical staple ‘MAD’ to exit newsstands and recycle its classic material

The funny, freckled face of Alfred E. Neuman is more or less retiring.

6 years ago

Netflix said future shows aimed at its younger audiences will not depict smoking or e-cigarette use unless it is
NPR
Movies
Public Health

Netflix promises to quit smoking on (most) original programming

The streaming content giant announced Wednesday that it will stub out depictions of smoking across all of its upcoming original programs aimed at younger viewers.

6 years ago

A Center City hotel ballroom is the stage for the 36th LGBT Square Dance Convention. The annual event is organized by the International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Dance
LGBTQ

Swing those partners: Gay square dancers gather in Philadelphia

The international convention of gay square dancers arrives here for the first time, following the callers’ directions at a Center City hotel.

6 years ago

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Acrobatic performers wowed the crowd at the Welcome America Party on the Parkway. (Michael Reeves/Billy Penn)
Community Events
Billy Penn

July 4th Philly photos: Protests, patriots and a popping block party

Even before the fireworks and concert, there was plenty of Independence Day action in America’s birthplace.

6 years ago

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