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Arts & Entertainment

The futurist artist Luigi Russolo (left)  with his noise machine, invented for futurist
NPR
Music

Too much music: A failed experiment in dedicated listening

In the interest of trying to experience all music, I was fast approaching a saturation point that was rendering me numb.

8 years ago

Jennifer Childs and Tony Braithwaite in the co-production of
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts

Bring out those oldies: ‘A Few of Our Favorite Things’ (Act II Playhouse and 1812 Productions)

Comedy bits from the past, offered by two artistic directors who specialize in having fun.

8 years ago

Edwin Hawkins appears at the 2014 Apollo Theater Spring Gala and 80th Anniversary Celebration in New York. Hawkins, the gospel star best known for the crossover hit
NPR
Music

Gospel star Edwin Hawkins, known for ‘Oh Happy Day,’ dies at 74

Hawkins, whose 1970 Grammy-winning hit, "Oh Happy Day" became a crossover pop and r&b hit, died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Pleasanton, California.

8 years ago

Irish singer Dolores O'Riordan of the Irish band The Cranberries, performing in Cognac, France, in 2016.
NPR
Music

The Cranberries’ Dolores O’Riordan dies at 46

Dolores O'Riordan, the lead singer of the band The Cranberries, has died suddenly at age 46.

8 years ago

Anthony Marsala and Colleen Corcoran as husband and wife in Underbite Theatre Company's
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts

The doll and the denial: ‘All the Dead Biddles’ (Underbite Theatre Co. and Plays & Players)

A mother has a most unusual way of grieving for her dead son.

8 years ago

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Delaware
Visual Arts

Artist finds still life is more than just bowls and flowers

For Robert Jackson, still life became a boring subject to paint. He wanted to be different and with the help of balloon dogs and childhood memories, he achieved his goal.

8 years ago

Museum of the American Revolution educator Dan Center identifies landmarks in a 7-foot-long painting by Pierre L'Enfant. It is the only known depiction of George Washington's headquarters tent in use in the field.
History

Revolutionary War army comes to life in newly discovered painting

The Museum of the American Revolution displays a newly acquired, 7-foot watercolor of the Continental Army, circa 1782, that was painted from life.

8 years ago

David Letterman interviews former President Barack Obama on My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman. (Joe Pugliese/Netflix)
NPR
Media
Technology

Netflix brings Letterman back to the interview chair — with a few twists

It's called My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman — and it's excellent.

8 years ago

Students at the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Perfoming arts designed sculptures that will be installed throughout the city for Martin Luther King Day.
K-12
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Handpainted MLK statues debut on Philly streets

A set of temporary statues of Dr. Martin Luther King, jr., painted by local high school artists, debut in Philadelphia over MLK weekend.

8 years ago

Artist Marion Held created this mask after visiting Hiroshima, the site the U.S. dropped its first nuclear bomb in WWII. (Photo courtesy of Marion Held)
New Jersey

Princeton art exhibit inspired by fears of a nuclear war

In commemoration of the human catastrophe in Japan, multimedia artist Marion Held has made ceramic masks, as well as evocative kimonos of organdy and paper.

8 years ago

Phoenix Best plays Eponine in the national Broadway tour of
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Phoenix Best, straight to Broadway and now playing her home town

The actress, from Philadelphia's Mt. Airy, graduated from DeSales University and became a Broadway understudy only a month after arriving in New York.

8 years ago

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Philadelphia Eagles' Nick Foles in action during the first half of an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys, Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)
Radio Times
Sports

Eagles’ playoff hopes; Sixers in London; Flyers’ flaws

Guest: Ray Didinger and Mike Sielski Philadelphia Eagles fans everywhere are anxious as the team is just days aw ...

Air Date: January 10, 2018

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Xcite Center is the new music theater at Parx casino in Bensalem.
Architecture & Design
Business
Performing Arts

Parx opens concert venue in Bensalem

Parx Casino opens the Xcite Center, the largest seated concert venue in Bucks County.

8 years ago

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Philadelphia's new poet laureate Raquel Salas Rivera.
NewsWorks Tonight
Books
Philadelphia
Poetry

Philadelphia names new poet laureate

Raquel Salas Rivera, a gender-fluid, Puerto Rican writer, has been named Philadelphia's new city poet laureate.

8 years ago

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This image released by Disney Pixar shows a scene from the film
Speak Easy

If movie franchises rule the box office, what can we learn from the exceptions?

Out of the 31 films to gross at least $100 million last year at North American box offices, 25 were based on some form of IP. But what about those other six?

8 years ago

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