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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.
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Fresh Air Weekend

Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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Arts & Entertainment

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Shapiro on Theater
Philadelphia
Sex & Relationships

'TouchTones' pushes buttons but leaves the audience on hold (Arden Theatre Company)

A new musical comedy about an engaged young couple — torn by a commitment to no premarital sex and an attraction to phone fantasy — turns away from issues it addresses.

8 years ago

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First
Delaware
Home & Family
Kids

An effort to slow traffic becomes a Delaware Halloween tradition

Jim Bell wanted cars to not blow through the stop sign in front of his Dover home, so he decorated the house with elaborate decorations for Halloween, and the cars stopped.

8 years ago

A man in flannel and a woman holding a pink bouquet of paper flowers
Philadelphia
Social Justice
Visual Arts

Paper flowers bring messages of freedom from Berks Detention Center

A Monument Lab project brings to City Hall 1600 paper flowers made by detained immigrants and their supporters.

8 years ago

Aaron Davidman in his one-man show
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

‘Wrestling Jerusalem’ (Philadelphia Theatre Company)

In a one-man show filled with ideas, Aaron Davidman takes on the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and examines as many sides as he can find.

8 years ago

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Philadelphia
Poetry
TV

Improving Philly writers with poetry slam-turned game show

An effort at the Community College of Philadelphia to use slam poetry to help improve students' writing skills has become an Emmy-nominated reality TV-style game show.

8 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight
Movies
Philadelphia

'Flesh and Blood' a half-fictional film about real Philly activist and family

The Philadelphia Film Festival has begun this week. On Saturday it will screen a movie shot entirely in North Philadelphia, a gritty drama called “Flesh and Blood.”

8 years ago

Delaware
Food & Drink
Movies
Music
Performing Arts
Visual Arts

Delaware arts calendar: Opera Uncorked, Halloween mini-con and more to see and do in Delaware this week

From concerts and movies, to special events for the whole family, there is always something to see and do in Delaware. Here are some of our picks.

8 years ago

Allentown Art Museum (Alphageekpa at English Wikipedia)
Economic Development
Neighborhoods
Pennsylvania
Public Spaces

Allentown Art Museum jumps into downtown renaissance

Allentown Art Museum unveils strategic plan to become a proactive asset to city's revitalization.

8 years ago

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Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

‘Ideation’ and the dark places it might lead (Theatre Exile)

Management consultants try to devise a process for their product by plowing through any business model they can conjure. In this case, the product is death.

8 years ago

Spiral Q apprentice Laura Beery paints houses for Peoplehood parade participants to wear on Saturday. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
LGBTQ
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Social Justice

Spiral Q's Philly Peoplehood puppet parade celebrates those living, working at the forefront of social justice

“The puppet is mighty,” said Spiral Q puppet theater's Jennifer Turnbull, as staff and volunteers prepared for Saturday's 18th Annual Peoplehood Parade through West Philly.

8 years ago

Barkley Hendricks

Friday Arts August 2017: Philly Style Bagels, Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool, Growing Together

Philly Style Bagels Producer: Michael O’Reilly Philly Style Bagels started with two friends, Collin Shapi ...

Air Date: October 19, 2017

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Books
Philadelphia

Free Library announces One Book, One Philadelphia selection: 'Another Brooklyn'

"Another Brooklyn" by Jacqueline Woodson is Philadelphia's choice for the next citywide reading program.

8 years ago

First
Delaware
Sculpture
Visual Arts

For Delaware artist Robert Straight, inspiration begins with the canvas itself

Have you ever looked at a blank canvas? Really looked at it? Those tiny little threads, woven together, it's that pattern gives Robert Straight his inspiration.

8 years ago

(Andrea Gibbs/WHYY)
First
Delaware
Visual Arts

Wilmington artist creates jewelry with a twist

After being unsatisfied with jewelry that wasn't unique, a Wilmington entrepreneur took matters into her own hands and is now teaching others how to make their own jewelry.

8 years ago

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Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

‘Buyer & Cellar’ and the price of great fame (1812 Productions)

Dito van Reigersberg plays everyone, including Barbra Streisand, in a comedy set at the underground private mall she built to house her collections at her Malibu complex.

8 years ago

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