Arts & Entertainment
Isabel Allende’s “In the Midst of Winter”
Guest: Isabel Allende Novelist ISABEL ALLENDE h ...
Air Date: November 10, 2017
Listen 49:17Philly Asian American Film Festival brings attention to forgotten star of silent movies
The 10th annual Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival opens with "The Dragon Painter," a silent film with live indie pop score.
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Headlong into ‘The Gap’ (Azuka Theatre)
Aliens have invaded her, one sister tells another in a beguiling world-premiere play.
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Monument Lab installation in Kensington is a meditation on time
Artist Tyree Guyton enlisted members of the community to work on his monumental evocation of time at the corner of A and Indiana in Philadelphia.
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Listen 2:28‘Lights Out’ turns the spotlight on the legacy of entertainer Nat King Cole
A new musical by Philadelphia native Colman Domingo is set in the ‘50s and examines issues of race through the iconic character of Nat King Cole.
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Listen 4:16Soul searching: Reggae artist finds goldmine in Drexel’s Philly Sound archive
A music recording archive at Drexel University is feeding a reggae songwriter based in London.
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Listen 5:08Living ‘By the Bog of Cats’ (Irish Heritage Theatre)
Family history repeats itself in a play by one of Ireland's current leading playwrights.
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Philly hosts women’s roller derby championships
The three-day event at the Liacouras Center featured hard fought bouts to take home the top prize.
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University of Delaware students pay tribute to hip-hop music pioneers
Some University of Delaware students pay tribute to a type of music that's slightly over forty years old- they do so with creativity, art and education.
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Church in Chestnut Hill debuts art and music about gun violence
A weekend arts festival at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill will feature choral music, a new play reading, and painted portraits of shooting victims.
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Listen 2:15Delaware's Brimming Horn Meadery is part myth, part magic, and part science
Mead is the oldest alcoholic beverage dating to over 9000 years old, and for John Talkington, The Brimming Horn Meadery has been a dream two decades in the making.
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Penn Museum breaks ground for long-overdue overhaul
The 118-year-old museum at the University of Pennsylvania houses millions of archaeological and anthropological artifacts from around the world.
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A different sort of bloodstream for ‘Blood Wedding’ (Wilma Theater)
An old play becomes an altogether new experience in this adaptation of Federico García Lorca's classic.
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The reel story of what happened to tape
While sound professionals and amateurs have moved to digital recording, reel-to-reel still holds a special place among some producers and audio nerds.
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