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Arts & Entertainment

a person tanning on the Jersey Shore
Things To Do
New Jersey
Outdoors

Your Memorial Day weekend plans: Down the shore

The Jersey Shore has so many different vibes to offer. Here are our picks for this Memorial Day weekend.

8 years ago

Big Stock Photo
Things To Do
Outdoors

Day tripping: Places to explore this Memorial Day weekend

Here are some day trips that will satisfy foodies, families, and the outdoorsy alike.

8 years ago

In Walnut Street Theatre's production of
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

‘Mamma Mia!’, still rocking the jukebox at Walnut Street Theatre

The show that spurred a spate of live jukebox musicals remains a standout.

8 years ago

A couple takes a selfie in a hammock during opening weekend at Spruce Street Harbor Park. (Brad Larrison/for NewsWorks)
Things To Do
Outdoors
Philadelphia

What to do this Memorial Day weekend in Philadelphia

Recommendations for or all of you sticking around the city, coming in from the ‘burbs, or hosting out-of-towners this holiday weekend.

8 years ago

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Students from the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf rehearse “The Lion, the With, and the Wardrobe” for performances at the First Untied Methodist Church of Germantown on May 25 and 26. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
K-12
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Narnia’s latest adaptation: Sign language

A Germantown school is taking a classic work and reimagining it for a deaf audience.

8 years ago

Famed novelist Philip Roth sits inside a screened tent at his home on Sept. 5, 2005, in Warren, Conn. Roth died on Tuesday. He was 85. (Douglas Healey/AP)
NPR

American novelist Philip Roth, author of ‘Portnoy’s Complaint,’ dies at 85

Philip Roth, whose novel American Pastoral won a Pulitzer in 1998 but who was best-known for the controversial and explicit 1969 Portnoy's Complaint, has died at age 85.

8 years ago

The ensemble of Orbiter 3's production of
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts

The endless facets of ‘A People’

L.M. Feldman's new play is a sweeping exploration of Jewish identity.

8 years ago

People pose with Robert Indiana's iconic LOVE sculpture in Philadelphia Tuesday. Indiana died Saturday at this home in Maine.  (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Philadelphia

Robert Indiana’s complicated relationship with LOVE

The 89-year-old artist died at his home in Maine. In Philadelphia, his LOVE lives on.

8 years ago

Listen 2:41
Robert Indiana's Love sculpture (Bigstock/sainaniritu)

Philadelphia’s LOVE statue artist, Robert Indiana, dies at 89

Artist Robert Indiana, best known for his 1960s LOVE series, has died at his home in Maine. He was 89. ...

8 years ago

The Philadelphia Orchestra
International
Music
Philadelphia

Philadelphia Orchestra begins European tour, including first stop in Israel in 25 years

The Philadelphia Orchestra has left town for a two-week European tour. A planned three-day swing through Israel has raised hackles.

8 years ago

Listen 2:26
Former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle

Netflix says it has signed Barack and Michelle Obama

Barack and Michelle Obama are getting into the television business with Monday's announcement that they had signed a multi-year deal with Netflix.

8 years ago

Paula Holloway belts out a song during a dress rehearsal of
Community Events
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Gospel according to Oedipus: Greek myth resounds in African-American church

The black churches of Coatesville show Philadelphia how it's done in "Gospel at Colonus."

8 years ago

In this April 26, 2018 photo, Moumena Saradar, left, originally from Syria, guides visitors through the Middle East gallery at Penn Museum, in Philadelphia. The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is in the midst of dramatic renovations, opening new galleries to showcase previously undisplayed items, telling the stories of those artifacts in more relatable ways and adding guides native to the parts of the world being showcased. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
History
Philadelphia

Iraqi, Syrian guides bring views to Philadelphia museum

Three Iraqi natives and a Syrian woman have been enlisted as guides to share a modern cultural perspective with visitors to new Middle Eastern galleries at the Penn Museum.

8 years ago

FILE - In this July 22, 2017 file photo, Hannibal Buress performs at the FYF Fest in Los Angeles. The path to comedian Bill Cosby’s conviction of drugging and molesting a woman in a Pennsylvania courtroom Thursday, April 26, arguably started 3 ½ years earlier in a comedy club across town in Philadelphia, when Buress  mocked Cosby for his smug preachiness, then called him a rapist during his standup act. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia

Hannibal Buress almost avoids talking about Bill Cosby at Philly show

Known as the comic who brought down Bill Cosby, Hannibal Buress makes sure his bits don’t go viral in Philly.

8 years ago

A participant barrels through the mud pit at the 2018 Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community Events
Philadelphia
Sports

Watch: 12th annual Kinetic Sculpture Derby, an energizing day in Kensington

Incessant rain didn’t keep neighbors inside at the 12th annual Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby.

8 years ago

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