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Host Stephen Dubner has surprising conversations that explore the riddles of everyday life and the weird wrinkles of human nature-from cheating and crime to parenting and sports. Dubner talks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, social scientists and entrepreneurs - and his Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt.

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The Philadelphia Orchestra will hold a workshop featuring the music of six women composers. 
Top row:  Eötvös, Hilary Purrington,  Xi Wang. Bottom row: Robin Holcomb, Chen-Hui Jen, and Nina C. Young. (Photo courtesy of the Philadelphia Orchestra)
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Philadelphia

Addressing oversight, Philly Orchestra to present work by women composers

The Philadelphia Orchestra will bring in more women composers next season, including a workshop of six new pieces.

7 years ago

The popular cabaret entertainer got backing from the Kimmel Center to write and record the all-originals collection “Lashed But Not Leashed.” (Brad Larrisonfor WHYY)
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August 16-22, 2018

Welcome home Martha Graham Cracker, Philly’s beloved drag queen, plus 9 more events this week

Philly's First Lady of Drag makes her triumphant return home this week.

7 years ago

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Rihanna performs on stage at the BRIT Awards in 2016. (Photo Illustration Ian Gavan/Getty Images and Angela Hsieh/NPR)
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Turning The Tables

Rihanna is the 21st century’s most influential musician

What does it mean to think of Rihanna, global superstar, as unheard? Her music has soundtracked most of this century, and that kind of ubiquity is easily taken for granted.

7 years ago

One of Philadelphia’s oldest artist collectives, Space 1026, will soon lose the space it has occupied for more than 20 years. (Courtesy of Adam Wallacavage, Space 1026)
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One of Philly’s oldest art collectives, Space 1026, to lose its home of 20 years

Keeping Philly weird for 20 years, Space 1026 is forced out of their Chinatown building.

7 years ago

Families gather in the Great Stair Hall at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for ArtSplash.
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Kids
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

Art Museum summer program caters to young Modernists

The second floor east balcony of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which arguably has the best view of the Parkway in the city, will be a cardboard cityscape.

7 years ago

Heart shaped petal sits atop a dessert served at the restaurant for the cast and crew of Cirque Du Soleil's VOLTA, in Oaks, Pa., on Aug. 8, 2018.
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This circus travels on its stomach, but lightly

A team of international chefs working in a portable kitchen keeps Cirque du Soleil performers happy and fit.

7 years ago

Ron (John David Washington) and Patrice (Laura Harrier) strike power poses in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman.
(David Lee/Focus Features)
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Movies

Spike Lee checks under the hood in the blistering ‘BlacKkKlansman’

Spike Lee's new movie, BlackkKlansman, is based on a true story, but the plot sounds crazy enough that you'd be excused for thinking he'd just made it up.

7 years ago

Nolan Williams Jr. is the curator of the Philadelphia Community Mass. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Performing Arts
Race & Ethnicity

Four African-American composers go to church with Bernstein’s ‘Mass’

A Baptist church in West Philadelphia will premiere new music by four African-American composers working in the vein of Leonard Bernstein.

8 years ago

NPR
Music

Let this percussionist blow your mind with The Fibonacci Sequence

Rhythm nerd alert! Bow down, drummers! Our social feeds have been on fire with a mind-bending, gasp-worthy video posted earlier this week.

8 years ago

In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower Friday, Aug. 12, 2016 in Spruce Knob, West Virginia. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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August 12 and 13, 2018

Shooting star watch: How to stargaze the Perseid meteor shower

This weekend will offer some of the best stargazing of the year.

8 years ago

Members of Philly Roller Derby posed for photos during last year's Free Streets event, which took place on N. 5th Street. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
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August 9 - 15, 2018

10 things to do this week: Philly Free Streets, the Barnes Jawn(t), Germantown’s Great Road Festival, and more

A festival on Broad Street with no cars allowed and a bookbinding workshop are two of this week's highlights.

8 years ago

Listen 5:18
The HBO film The Tale stars Laura Dern as a woman who realizes later in life that a relationship she had at 13 years old with two adults was child sexual abuse. (HBO)
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Movies
Fresh Air

A ‘Tale’ of child sex abuse was inspired by filmmaker’s real-life trauma

"When I looked at it with my adult eyes, there was abuse all over it," she says.

8 years ago

Fred Rogers as Mr. Rogers from the PBS show Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
NPR
Kids
TV

How learning science is catching up to Mr. Rogers

What makes Morgan Neville's biographical documentary so necessary, is that it shows Rogers was exactly what he appeared to be.

8 years ago

Philadelphia native Lee Daniels’ life and career will be explored on the PBS series “Breaking Big.” (Michel Spingler/AP)
Movies
Philadelphia

Lee Daniels’ life explored on ‘Breaking Big’

The intriguing PBS series “Breaking Big,” airing Friday at 8:30 p.m., traces the life and career path filmmaker and TV mogul Lee Daniels.

8 years ago

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Philadelphia
Sports

The inaugural Philadelphia’s Greatest Women Athletes and Coaches Awards

It should be a spectacular night for women’s sports in Philadelphia.

8 years ago

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