Arts & Entertainment
Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon”
Guests: Deborah Plant, Autumn Womack, Johnnie Hobbes Jr. Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo ...
Air Date: July 31, 2018 10:00 am
Listen 49:01‘Faith, art, activism’ combine at Philly church in a carnival atmosphere
The traveling carnival visits towns across the country to propel social change through theater, storytelling, songs, and games.
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To describe the trans experience, this poet created a new dialect
Part science fiction, part medieval reinterpretation, “feeld” by trans poet Jos Charles can feel like a puzzle, making readers work for its meaning.
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Sequins, beads, humor and Voodoo flags: The art of Nancy Josephson
A self-taught artist, Nancy Josephson mixes ‘blingy stuff’ together with taxidermy and busts of people to make art that will ‘surprise and delight.’
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At the Pa. Shakespeare Festival, ‘All’s Well’ ends that way
The festival produces the play the way Shakespeare would have, from what we know today.
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Listen 3:13Philly art exhibit examines what to expect when you’re expecting privacy
A digital artist turns Philadelphia's Icebox gallery into an immersive interpretation of 4th Amendment privacy laws.
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Listen 2:57A jazz legend’s Philadelphia home fading away
John Coltrane's vacant house on North 33rd Street is deteriorating but still bears marks of the composer's achievement.
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Delaware museum looks back at racism, tumult of ’68 — and shadows still stretching over Wilmington
For the fifty-year anniversary of the Wilmington military occupation, the Delaware Art Museum examines how the past reaches its tendrils into the present.
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Listen 4:58Bob Marley, Harry Potter, and the nation’s largest urban health festival: Your plans 7/26 – 8/1
This week, consider a day trip to Wilmington for one of the eclectic events happening there.
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If you didn't book your tickets to Hogwarts in time, celebrate the birth of the Boy Who Lived at one of these local events.
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Songs from a half century ago still resound with meaning for a troubled time
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The Bard goes glam in Clark Park’s ‘Twelfth Night’
Shakespeare in Philadelphia's Clark Park backs up "Twelfth Night" with a glam-rock band of kids from the neighborhood.
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Philly mayor, Jay-Z’s Roc Nation agree to keep Made in America on the Parkway
Made in America will stay on the Ben Franklin Parkway.
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Slavic singers bring the music, traditions, food of the Balkans to Bartram’s Garden
The Philadelphia Women’s Slavic Ensemble opened the second annual Balkan at Bartram’s Garden event Sunday evening.
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‘The best of all parties’: The irresistible lure of the white party
Add a little glamour to your everyday by attending one of these soirees in your finest all-white attire.
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