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To mark 30th year of Philly’s Vietnam memorial, vets and families salute missing soldiers

Veterans and family members honored prisoners of war or those missing in action to mark the 30th anniversary of the Philadelphia’s ...

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Exhibit of tiny makeshift boats symbolizes plight of Syrian refugees

The University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has invited the public to help craft 2,379 toy boats for la ...

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‘Fireflies’ dance on the Ben Franklin Parkway

Pedicabs adorned with colorful lanterns danced on the Ben Franklin Parkway Thursday night as “Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireflies” made ...

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 Part of a poster for 'A Billion Nights on Earth,' a show brought to the Philly Fringe Festival by the festival producer, FringeArts.
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Philly Fringe reviews: ‘A Billion Nights on Earth’ and ‘These Terrible Things’

A Billion Nights on EarthLittle Winslow, a character who may be 5 or 6 years of age, just can’t get to sleep. Or won’t. He ...

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 Terry Williamson, president of the Philadelphia Vietnam War Veterans Memorial Fund. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Architect of Philadelphia’s Vietnam memorial talks about why he served and why he protested

This story is part of a WHYY series examining how ...

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Stephen Greenblatt’s “The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve”

Guest: Stephen Greenblatt STEPHEN GREENBLATT, an Ame ...

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Geoff Sobelle begins to build his house in the Philly Fringe Festival production of 'Home' in 2017. (Courtesy of Maria Baranova)
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Philly Fringe reviews: ‘Home,’ ‘Iphigenia at Aulis,’ and ‘Alchemist’

HomeIt all begins with a simple large frame. How it ends, I won’t say. With that frame, theater artist Geoff Sobelle begins to buil ...

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Princeton University opens Lewis Arts Complex

For several years, a construction fence barricaded the area opposite Princeton’s McCarter Theatre Center — it was an ugly sight t ...

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Opera Philadelphia’s new show reflects on black lives in the shadow of the 1985 MOVE bombing

Five years ago, Opera Philadelphia handed writer Marc Bamuthi Joseph a stack of 400 poems written by teenagers at the Art Sanctuary in No ...

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 Actors Sydney Banks (left) and Dray Cottingham (right) of 'Cotton & Gold'. (Photo courtesy of Rovell Seth Vialva)

‘Afrofuturist’ play debuts at Fringe with look at gentrification and history

In a Center City rehearsal space, six student actors slowly begin to melt out of their seats and onto the floor. They come togethe ...

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 A man walks up to the Battle of Germantown Memorial in Vernon Park in Philadelphia, Pa.  Artist Karyn Olivier covered the monument with a mirrored acrylic as part of the 2017 Monument Lab project.  (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)

Project underway to get Philadelphians to see public monuments in new way [video]

A three-month experiment in public memorials begins this week in Philadelphia. The Monument Lab will present work by 20 artists in ...

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 Edith Windsor leads the Pledge of Allegiance during the dedication of the Stonewall National Monument, outside the Stonewall Inn, in New York's Greenwich Village, Monday, June 27, 2016. Windsor passed away Tuesday in New York at the age of 88 (Richard Drew/AP Photo)

Edith Windsor, woman who helped end federal gay marriage ban, dies at age 88

A woman who brought a Supreme Court case that struck down parts of a federal law that banned same-sex marriage has died. An attorn ...

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 Visitors to the Print Center look at works by Martin Puryear, the artist who brought ''Big Bling'' to Fairmount Park this spring. Puryear's prints will be on exhibit through Nov. 18. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)

The Big Bling has renewed interest in sculptor Martin Puryear’s drawings

A visitor to the Print Center on narrow Latimer Street in Center City Philadelphia might see images on the walls that seem familiar — a ...

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 Nia Benjamin playing one of the women who reunite, sort of, in the Sam Tower , Ensemble production of 'Strange Tenants.' (Kate Raines/Plate3 Photography)
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Philly Fringe reviews: ‘Strange Tenants,’ ‘The Hand Job’ and ‘Gatz’

Strange TenantsArresting in its weirdness and impressive in its quivers, jerks and writhing, “Strange Tenants” is about the w ...

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On ‘Radio Times:’ Famed trumpter Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah: I hate the sound of the trumpet

Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah, a New Orleans native, Grammy nominated trumpeter and two-time ...

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