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Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.

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Arts & Entertainment

Charles Dutoit, conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra at New York's Carnegie Hall in 2010. (Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images)
NPR
Music
Public Safety

Sexual assault claim against conductor Dutoit is credible, Boston Symphony says

Since the initial AP report chronicling allegations against the conductor, ten women have accused Dutoit of sexual misconduct.

8 years ago

Paul Green, founder of the original School of Rock (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Kids
Music

With School of Rock foundation, Paul Green returns to Philly for encore

Green is pursuing a legal degree at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, as well as spreading the spirit of rock ‘n' roll once again through a new endeavor.

8 years ago

Listen 5:44
Frances McDormand, Daniel Kaluuya, Daniel Day-Lewis
Speak Easy
Movies

What the Oscar winner for best picture will tell us about 2017

For better or worse, the winners of the Oscar for best picture are a pretty good reflection of the year that was.

8 years ago

The 2018 Philadelphia Flower Show theme Wonders of Water inspired the main exhibit rainforest theme. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Environment
Visual Arts

Philly Flower Show taking deep dive into water

The annual Philadelphia Flower Show gets its feet wet in environmental issues surrounding water.

8 years ago

Listen 1:48
(Brian Drouin/WHYY)
First
Delaware
Performing Arts

Cancer survivor keeps the spirit of Elvis alive in Delaware

Bob Lougheed is a pancreatic cancer survivor. Now he and his band The Memphis Mafia are keeping the spirit of Elvis alive and giving back at the same time.

8 years ago

“Marie Begins” is an interactive opera with several diverging story branches and five different conclusions. (Provided)
NewsWorks Tonight
Performing Arts
Technology

Philly composer’s Choose-Your-Own-Adventure opera brings performance to your screen

“Marie Begins” is a fully sung, interaction opera in the style of "Choose Your Own Adventure" books, with several diverging story branches and five different conclusions.

8 years ago

Listen 2:06
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

‘Something Rotten!’ Not so, in its national tour at the Academy of Music

How was the first musical conceived? Don't look here for the answer.

8 years ago

First
Books
Delaware
Visual Arts

Delaware artist Susan Benarcik brings the outdoors in with her unique artwork

During the day Susan Benarcik is an urban gardener, she loves nature and the outdoors, during the winter months she brings both indoors through her artwork.

8 years ago

Detail from a promotional image for
Speak Easy
History
Media
Race & Ethnicity

A history of increased African-American visibility, self-determination in ‘Black Pulp!’

The exhibition at the African American Museum in Philadelphia continues through April 29.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Movies
Music

The art of the film score

Guests: Troy Herion, Michael Phillips Close your eyes and think of the shark from Jaws. Are you hearing ...

Air Date: March 1, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 49:31
Jane Golden, founder and executive director of Mural Arts Philadelphia, introduces the Mural Arts Studio at the Barnes, a space for art education for the organi8zation's Restorative Justice Program.
NewsWorks Tonight
Criminal Justice
Visual Arts

Barnes provides showplace for Restorative Justice artists as part of Mural Arts Philly project

Passers-by have peered in to see what the artists are doing. This Sunday, the artists will invite the public inside for an open house.

8 years ago

Listen 2:05
Marcel Duchamp's ''Fountain,'' on exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is an ordinary urinal purchased in a hardware store. This is a 1950 version of the 1917 original submitted under the pseudonym R. Mutt to the inaugural exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York

Duchamp collection descending the art museum steps — and off to travel the world

One of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's iconic collections — Marcel Duchamp — will take a six-month tour of Asia and Australia.

8 years ago

Azuka Theatre’s production of
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts

Five kids and a crisis in Azuka Theatre’s ‘Ready Steady Yeti Go’

In a new play about middle-schoolers, a hate crime changes everything.

8 years ago

Penn Charter student Etthan Willis raises a prop gun on stage at the David L. Kurtz Center for the Performing Arts before a performance of
K-12
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Wielding weapons on stage in ‘Les Miz’ makes students confront gun violence

William Penn Charter Schools annual musical, "Les Miserables," has extra meaning in the wake of Florida school shooting.

8 years ago

Listen 3:52
Artist Willis Nomo Humphrey, Executive Director of Mural Arts, Jane Golden, Octavius Catto re-enactor Bob Branch, and artist Keir Johnston unveil the mural honoring Octavius Catto to be installed at the Universal Institute Charter School on Catherine Street.(Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity
Visual Arts

On Octavius Catto’s 179th birthday, Philly Mural Arts honors ‘unsung hero’

One of Philadelphia’s lesser known visionaries just became a little more visible.

8 years ago

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