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Philadelphia singer-songwriter Birdie Busch at her home studio in Germantown. Busch wrote eight original songs inspired by the art of women in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and will perform them Friday night at the museum. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Gender
Music
Visual Arts

Women artists celebrated in song at Philly Museum of Art

Birdie Busch will perform a suite of songs based on female artists in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

7 years ago

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Religion
Social Justice
Visual Arts

Asian Arts Initiative showcases art striving to cast out caste system

The Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia is exhibiting work by a group of Dalit, once known as “untouchables,” to protest that social hierarchy.

7 years ago

Terry Lee Barrett hosted “Caribbean Rhythms” on WRTI FM, from 1987 to 1995. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Philadelphia

Archives of radio show illuminate Philly’s love affair with reggae of ‘80s and ‘90s

Recordings of the “Caribbean World Rhythms” radio show bring back the bright, sun-splashed sounds of reggae.

7 years ago

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Laylah Amatullah Barrayn has been traveling to Senegal since 1999 to take pictures of the Baye Fall, a Sufi sect of Islam.
Her images are on view at the African American Museum in Philadelphia in the exhibit,
International
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Two visions of African spirituality at the African American Museum

A photojournalist and a fine-art photographer collaborate on a dual exhibition of the Baye Fall of Senegal and the indigenous deities of Sierra Leone.

7 years ago

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About 2,000 people attended the Snow Jam concert headlined by O.A.R. in the debut concert at the 76ers Fieldhouse in Wilmington last month. (Courtesy of BPG Sports)
Delaware
Music
Performing Arts

At Wilmington’s 76ers Fieldhouse, hoops make way for hoopla of concerts, celebrities

The new Wilmington sports arena for the 76ers G League team drew well for an O.A.R. concert. Rap queen Cardi B will host a party there in April.

7 years ago

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Akeem Davis and Zuhairah in Arden Theatre Company’s  production of
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Performing Arts
Philadelphia

A gem of a ‘Gem of the Ocean’

The production affirms Arden Theatre Company as the region's major producer of August Wilson's work.

7 years ago

Six women imagine the hull of a slave ship in
History
Performing Arts
Race & Ethnicity

Philadelphia theater production of ‘Vessels’ explores the spiritual survival tools for women on a slave ship

“Vessels,” a premiere work this weekend at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia, imagines how captured African women might have survived the Middle Passage.

7 years ago

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Members of the artists' collective Space 1026 Maximillian Lawrence (left) and John Armstrong, stand in the new space they purchased on North Broad Street, a former hairdresser's shop. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Economy
Visual Arts

In a Philadelphia first, artist collective becomes property owner

Space 1026, being forced out of its current location, becomes the first artist collective in Philadelphia to buy a building.

7 years ago

Radio Times
Kids
Mental Health

Laurie Halse Anderson’s new memoir ‘Shout’

A conversation with YA fiction writer Laurie Halse Anderson on her own sexual assault when she was 13 years old and how to talk to young people about sexual violence.

Air Date: March 6, 2019 10:00 am

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Actor Luke Perry poses for a portrait Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011 in New York.  (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)
Movies
TV

Luke Perry dead at 52 after suffering stroke

A publicist for Luke Perry says the "Riverdale" and "Beverly Hills, 90210" star has died. He was 52.

7 years ago

The Please Touch Museum’s latest exhibition, America to Zanzibar is designed to educate children about Muslim culture (Provided)
Kids
Religion

Please Touch Museum exhibit teaches children about Muslim culture

A life-sized Middle Eastern sailboat, artifacts, and lively demonstrations by Muslim artists are featured in the Please Touch Museum’s latest exhibition: America to Zanzibar.

7 years ago

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A taxidermied dog
The Why
Higher Education
History
Philadelphia

Why Drexel wants to take over the Philadelphia History Museum

Drexel University has proposed taking over the 130,000-piece collection of the Philadelphia History Museum. Will the public get to see it? And why does Drexel want it?

Air Date: March 4, 2019

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This combination photo shows Hollywood and Broadway producer Scott Rudin at The National Board of Review Motion Pictures awards gala in New York on Jan. 11, 2011, (left), and the cover of Harper Lee's
National

Why small U.S. theaters have canceled ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’

Dozens of community and nonprofit theaters across the U.S. have been forced to abandon productions of "To Kill a Mockingbird" under legal threat by Broadway.

7 years ago

Ariel Versace fans Andie Boberick (left) and Nicole Smyth (right) celebrate their idol's debut on the 11th season of RuPaul's Drag Race during a watch party at Vera Bar & Grill in Cherry Hill.
LGBTQ
New Jersey
TV

South Jersey fans turn out for ‘hometown hero’ Ariel Versace’s debut in ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’

RuPaul’s Drag Race is in its 11th season and for the first time a drag queen from South Jersey has made the program.

7 years ago

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The
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Economic Development
Philadelphia

Philly Flower Show leads visitors back to the garden in Woodstock celebration

The oldest and largest flower show in the country celebrates the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, and hosts an international floral contest.

7 years ago

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