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Arts & Entertainment

This 1,200 lb. bell, just slightly smaller than the Liberty Bell, sits inside Delaware Symphony Orchestra music director David Amado's garage in Greenville, Delaware. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Delaware
Music

Delaware Symphony Orchestra rings in the holidays with large bell donation

Seven bells collected as a memorial to victims of 9/11 have a new home with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra.

7 years ago

Episodes 1 and 2 of Strange College are now available to watch online. (CCPTV53 / https://youtu.be/yQs7ePuhfuA)
Movies
Philadelphia

Aliens, cadavers and cover-ups, oh my!

CCPTV — normally filled with educational video programming by the Community College of Philadelphia — has launched a 10-part series about undead cadavers and space aliens.

7 years ago

Fried bologna and eggs is one of the dishes included in The Cash And Carter Family Cookbook. (Courtesy of Sara Broun)
NPR
Food & Drink

You can eat like Johnny Cash — thanks to a cookbook from country music’s first family

Carter Cash's cookbook includes everything from his mother June's tomato, red onion and avocado salad to his father Johnny's old iron-pot chili.

7 years ago

A $1 million gift will help the Delaware Art Museum waive admission on Sundays. (Courtesy of Delaware Art Museum)
Delaware
Visual Arts

$1 million gift extends free Sundays at Delaware Art Museum

The museum in Wilmington entices people to visit by waiving admission on Sundays and Thursday evenings. A corporate benefactor is helping make it possible.

7 years ago

Ayo (Florence Kasumba, left) and Okoye (Danai Gurira) are members of the Dora Milaje, the elite female warriors of Wakanda, in Black Panther.</em
NPR
Gender
Movies

The fierce female characters of film in 2018

In 2018, movie theaters offered a range of explorations of women and power: how they wield it, fight for it, abuse it.

7 years ago

Radio Times
Comedy
TV

The best television of 2018

Guests: Willa Paskin, Mark Dawidziak It’s been another year with hundreds and hundreds of original television p ...

Air Date: December 28, 2018 10:00 am

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Mr. Rogers, subject of the 2018 documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor, rehearsing for a taping of his television show Mr. Roger's Neighborhood in 1989. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Radio Times
Movies

The best movies of 2018

Guests: Neil Oxman, Gary Thompson 2018 is winding down, which means it’s time to take a look at the best movies ...

Air Date: December 27, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Amanda Kiesel sews Velcro onto sequined suspenders at the Avalon String Band club house in South Philadelphia while costume coordinator Jimmy Tatar uses a glue gun to add feathers to a hat.
Community Events
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Sewing for strutting: Next generation helps Mummers step up their costume game

The Avalon String Band — a Mummers club on Two Street — recruited a design graduate to upgrade their costumes and save them money.

7 years ago

Filipinos pose for souvenir shots at the
NPR
International

Love the holidays? The Philippines celebrates 4 months of Christmas mania

The "Ber" months represent "a psychological time clock for most Filipinos to prepare" a jammed Christmas calendar with family and friends.

7 years ago

For this year's grand prize winner, the judges were impressed by the intricate, working gingerbread gears of the clock inside Santa's workshop. (Kristen Hartke/NPR)
NPR
Food & Drink
National

Gingerbread cred: Bakers craft winning edible art down to the last detail

The National Gingerbread House Competition celebrated its 26th year at Asheville, North Carolina's Omni Grove Park Inn.

7 years ago

Wallace Acton as Fagin in Quintessence Theatre Group's production of the musical
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts

Dark and dreary? Light and peppy? ‘Oliver!’ at Quintessence Theatre Group

The script to the musical isn't so sterling, and the production tries to make it something it's not. So come for the show's well-written music.

7 years ago

45 RPM sleeve for 'Christmas On The Block' - Alan Mann Band (1984). (Image via Flickr Creative Commons, uploaded by Brian of Retroland U.S.A.)
Speak Easy
Music
Neighborhoods

Seeing what really matters at Christmas

In Philadelphia, there's a very special song that reminds us of what Christmas is really all about.

7 years ago

Hank Willis Thomas' Afro pick sculpture,
Higher Education
Visual Arts

Black Power Afro pick sculpture takes root at Philadelphia museum

The piece engaged 80,000 passers-by who stopped specifically to look at the sculpture or ask about it over three months.

7 years ago

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Penny Marshall played Laverne in Laverne & Shirley and went on to have a career as a Hollywood director. She died Monday at the age of 75. (ABC Photo Archives/Getty Images)
NPR
Movies
TV

Penny Marshall, filmmaker and ‘Laverne & Shirley’ star, dies at 75

Penny Marshall, who became a household name playing Laverne in Laverne & Shirley, died Monday night at her Los Angeles home from complications of diabetes.

7 years ago

A bust of Harriet Tubman stands in the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center, a stop on the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, in Church Creek, Md. A group in Cape May, New Jersey, is planning a museum there in her honor. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
History
New Jersey

Museum honoring Harriet Tubman destined for Cape May

The museum will include a permanent exhibit on Harriet Tubman, who spent time in Cape May during the 1850s raising money for helping slaves escape from the South.

7 years ago

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