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What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.
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No Small Endeavor

What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.

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Selby Kiffer posing for a photo in front of a display case.
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Prized private collection of Benjamin Franklin items briefly on display in Philadelphia, before heading to auction

Highlights from the Jay T. Snider collection of Benjamin Franklin are on display at The Library Company of Philadelphia, before heading to auction at Sotheby’s.

2 weeks ago

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Philly has a variety of comedy clubs
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Billy Penn

Your guide to Philly’s comedy scene

Philly is funny – literally. Whether you’re looking for an improv show, comedy classes or the bigger headliners, here’s your guide to Philly’s comedy scene.

2 weeks ago

Pax Ressler and Jackie Soro
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

The shiny veneer of American Girl dolls wears thin in latest production at Philly’s FringeArts

Pax Ressler and Jackie Soro play both themselves and their American Girl counterparts in “Girl Dolls: The American Musical.”

2 weeks ago

The Flatliners performing
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Philadelphia

Manayunk’s Sing Us Home fest sees its strongest attendance with performances by Dave Hause and surprise guests

With “campfires,” surprise sets and new songs, Manayunk’s Sing Us Home Festival brought thousands together for the weekend.

2 weeks ago

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Elegyy Quilts on display at the Fabric Workshop exhibit
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

At Philly’s Fabric Workshop, Jesse Krimes turns incarcerated people’s memories into quilts

“Quilt Elegies” includes a prototype of Krimes’ fabric-based mural designed with people recently released from prison.

2 weeks ago

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Various historical American documents are shown at a display at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia
Visual Arts

In Philadelphia, a new exhibit shows American independence was not inevitable

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania traces colonists' fractured, decadeslong shift from loyalty to rebellion.

2 weeks ago

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Megan Bridge, Tammy Carrasco and Chloe Maria performing a dance
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Wild Horizon festival plants a flag for circus performance in Philadelphia

With the loss of Germantown's Circadium school, a new festival is trying to establish Philly as a hub for contemporary circus.

2 weeks ago

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runners in the street
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Broad Street Run, Sing Us Home Festival and ‘Romeo & Juliet’ ballet in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

April 30 to May 3: An emo tribute in Delaware, a Meat Loaf musical in Philly and a Kentucky Derby wine fest in South Jersey lead this weekend’s events.

3 weeks ago

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Dave Hause performing
Music
Philadelphia

The Menzingers and The Mountain Goats to headline Sing Us Home Festival in Manayunk this weekend

The festival, the brainchild of Philadelphia’s own Dave Hause, serves as a homecoming for the musician, who grew up in the Roxborough-Manayunk area.

3 weeks ago

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Anthony Roth Costanzo stands on the stage at the Academy of Music
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Opera Philadelphia’s upcoming season will feature a comedy about a president who defies electoral defeat to become a dictator

George and Ira Gershwin’s “Let ‘Em Eat Cake” flopped on Broadway in 1933. Opera Philadelphia will revive it for the midterm election season.

3 weeks ago

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The National Liberty Museum exhibiting a collection of sports memorabilia
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Philadelphia
Sports
Visual Arts

Philly’s Liberty Museum shows what the World Cup and the First Amendment have in common

“In the Arena” demonstrates how sports exemplify the U.S. Constitution’s Freedom of Assembly.

3 weeks ago

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The marble floor of Hamilton Hall
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Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Philadelphia’s Please Touch Museum has a new $4.2M marble floor. The old marble is making a comeback in Center City restaurants

It took 10 years for the children's museum to raise the money to replace its 19th-century marble floors.

3 weeks ago

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Emma Copley Eisenberg (photo credit: Kenzi Crash)
Studio 2
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Studio 2 Extra: Philly author Emma Copley Eisenberg

Studio 2 co-host Avi Wolfman-Arent sits down with Eisenberg to hear why bodies deserve more lines in literature and why "fat" is often the best descriptor.

Air Date: April 24, 2026 1:30 pm

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Trombonist Brent White performs
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Politics
Visual Arts

Philadelphia budget 2026: Isaiah Thomas, Rue Landau want $6 million allocated for arts

With funding turbulence at the federal and state levels, elected officials are calling for the city to pick up some of the slack.

3 weeks ago

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Studio 2
History

Why We Talk Funny: The Real Story Behind Our Accents

Linguist Valerie Fridland guides us through the history of accents and why certain ones stick while others disappear, and what they reveal about power, identity and belonging.

Air Date: April 24, 2026 12:00 pm

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