Arts & Entertainment
Veterans coming home
For the past few months WHYY has focused on the soldier transition to civilian life. We calle
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Air Date: December 9, 2016
On eve of Nobel honors, La Salle collection tangled up in clues to Dylan enigma
This weekend in Sweden, the Nobel Prizes will be conferred for physics, chemistry, medicine, and peace. But most people have been paying
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Latino cultural center rises in North Philly as a beacon of connections, commerce [photos]
A cultural center has taken its place in the North Philadelphia neighborhood of Fairhill, designed to be the inspiration for a financiall
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Ascent of machines in modern world gives rise to performance of dancers and drones [photos]
A New York dance company has choreographed a fleet of robotic drones to interact with human dancers. It premieres at the Prince Theater i
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Confiscated ‘War Throne’ back in owner’s possession after legal battle
After two years of litigation, the controversial arms chair has been delivered to its Philadelphia buyer.
A piece of contemp
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Baylor names Temple’s Matt Rhule as new football coach
Baylor hired Matt Rhule on Tuesday, hoping the highly successful Temple coach can rebuild the Big 12 Conference program hit hard by scand
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How this year’s election caused Philly theater to swap years for ‘The Carols’
In show business, Christmas often starts in July. That’s when plays are written and performances start being planned.
This s
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ListenPa. museum to auction wax figures of presidents, first ladies
A Gettysburg wax museum that featured the likeness of every U.S. president and first lady has closed and the figures are up for auction.
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Philadelphia welcomes more LOVE to the Parkway
The Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia is fast becoming the avenue of love.
It has just gained another LOVE sculpture, but
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Discord still playing out between Freedom Theatre’s supporters, directors
Some patrons and alumni of the Freedom Theatre in North Philadelphia are asking its board of directors to include them in its plans for t
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Can Wilmington be hip?
Next Tuesday, Wilmington Downtown Visions is holding a meet and greet with Mayor-Ele
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Air Date: December 2, 2016
Composers refresh ancient Jewish prayers with new music
Ari Sussman grew up in a Jewish congregation in Elkins Park, attended a Jewish high school, and — every year — went to Jewish su
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Philly’s Mural Arts reaches out to prisoners as it shapes installation on criminal justice
WHYY is one of 15 news organizations in the Philadelphia Reentry Report
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Jurassic World has blockbuster opening weekend at Franklin Institute [photos]
What beats out King Tut, Star Wars, and dissected human bodies preserved in plastic?
Dinosaurs.
“Jurassic World,̶
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Why can’t you tell me how you feel?
It's hard to communicate our emotions. The effects of this are harmful, and as a country, we are arguably the most overtly divided and disconnected we have been in years.
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