Arts & Entertainment
After criticism, Philadelphia Orchestra adds female composers to its new season
The orchestra announced that two pieces by female composers would be added to the lineup.
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La Borinqueña: a superhero for Puerto Rico
Guests: Danica Coto, Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez La Borinqueña is an Afro-Latina Puerto Rican comic book superhero ...
Air Date: August 2, 2018 10:00 am
Listen 48:56Blackstar Film Festival, in its seventh year, keeps expanding the mainstream
The festival showcases films that may be difficult to find in mainstream theaters.
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Listen 5:06Cape May Crab Festival, inclusive play, and Deco on the Delaware: Your plans 8/2 – 8/8, 2018
This week, a slate of events is specially geared toward children on the autism spectrum.
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Burning up ’42nd Street’ with tap shoes, at Bucks County Playhouse
They're dancing as fast as they can, then even faster.
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State of art galleries is changing in Philly’s Old City
As yet another art gallery bails out of Philadelphia's Old City, the neighborhood begins remaking itself.
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Listen 3:49Zora 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.
8 years ago
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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