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Arts & Entertainment

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.
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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

Fans spell out BOWIE with their bodies outside Sigma Sound Studios on 12th Street in 1974 while David Bowie was recording songs for the album
Books
Music
Philadelphia

Philly loves Bowie — the second time around

The second annual Philly Loves Bowie Week will feature a new book and documentary film.

8 years ago

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This Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018, photo provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture shows a sculpture carved from a half-ton of butter in preparation for the 102nd Pennsylvania Farm Show, scheduled from Saturday, Jan. 6, through Saturday, Jan. 13, at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg, Pa. (Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture via AP)
Business
Food & Drink
Pennsylvania

Diversity-themed butter sculpture unveiled at the Pa. Farm Show

Husband and wife team Marie Pelton and Jim Victor have been making the Farm Show sculptures for years.

8 years ago

Hubert Robert, French 1733-1808
Higher Education
Visual Arts

Why La Salle University plans to sell dozens of artworks, including Degas and Matisse drawings

The La Salle University Board of Trustees has decided to sell off 46 pieces of art from the university's art museum in order to pay for new education programs.

8 years ago

Honoree Kerry Washington attends The Fashion Group International's
NPR
Gender
Social Justice

Hollywood women launch initiative to stop sexual harassment

Some of Hollywood's most powerful women have teamed up to launch an initiative aimed at combating sexual harassment inside and outside their industry.

8 years ago

Members of the Pirates head south on Broad St.
NewsWorks Tonight
Philadelphia

The Mummers strutted through Philly’s deep freeze

The bedecked, bedazzled revelers paraded through the streets of Center City Philadelphia on New Year's Day, despite bitterly cold temperatures dipping into the teens.

8 years ago

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Poetry

Poet Nikki Giovanni / Writer Adam Valen Levinson

Guests: Nikki Giovanni, Adam Valen Levinson We begin today’s show listening to Marty’s conversation with poet ...

Air Date: January 1, 2018

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