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Speak Easy

Music has been just one step on my creative journey

My primary artistic expression is as a musician, but my creativity manifests in various media depending on where I am mentally, physically, or spiritually.

9 years ago

George Vallianos (left), president of the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association, and board member Henry Brann, stand beneath a portrait of the poet at the Nick Virgilio Writers House in Camden.
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New Jersey
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Writers house in Camden honors ‘haiku king’ Nick Virgilio

Camden's king of haiku poetry - Nick Virgilio - now has a writers house named after him.

9 years ago

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Marchers in Philadelphia's El Carnaval de Puebla en Filadelfia don caricature costumes depicting the Mexican army that prevailed over the French and Turkish forces during the 1862 Battle of Puebla, commonly known as Cinco de Mayo. (PRNewsFoto/Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation, R. Kennedy for GPTMC)
Immigration
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

Carnaval de Puebla returns to Philadelphia amid increase in deportations

The traditional Mexican celebration resumes in South Philly after skipping a year.

9 years ago

Radio Times

Poet Gregory Pardlo: ‘Air Traffic’

Guest: Gregory Pardlo Poet GREGORY PARDLO’S ...

Air Date: April 25, 2018

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Rapper Meek Mill comes out to ring a Liberty Bell replica before the first half in Game 5 of a first-round NBA basketball playoff series between the Miami Heat and the Philadelphia 76ers, Tuesday, April 24, 2018, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola)

Believe it! 76ers roll with Meek Mill past Heat in Game 5

Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons shined again in front of rapper Meek Mill, and the dominant duo ushered the nightmares-into-dreams Process of ...

9 years ago

Bob Dorough performing at Joe's Pub in New York on March 9, 2014. (Kevin Yatarola/Getty Images)
NPR
Music
TV

Bob Dorough, jazz musician best known for ‘Schoolhouse Rock!,’ dead at 94

Dorough continued to play throughout the rest of his life as recently as three weeks ago in upstate New York.

9 years ago

Andrew Mars
Speak Easy

Protest pop: On creativity as resistance

As I embark on my third solo album, I find myself in a culture that increasingly sells its soul, in the name of money, in the name of sex.

9 years ago

NPR
Music
National

Announcing the 2018 Tiny Desk Contest winner

Drumroll, please!

9 years ago

Radio Times
Music
Philadelphia

Leslie Odom Jr.

Guest: Leslie Odom Jr. You may not have scored the tickets to see the original cast of “Hamilton,” but ...

Air Date: April 24, 2018 10:00 am

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Liliana Velasquez, 20, fled Guatemala on her own to seek asylum in the United States.

Pa. aid society honors young immigrant author for courage, determination

Montco student's 'Dreams and Nightmares' details perilous trek from Guatemala to asylum in U.S. 'It’s the story of all of us who come to this country,' she says.

9 years ago

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Delaware
Visual Arts

Delaware artist invites you to his ‘Vibe Realm’

By day, Michael Kalmbach is the founder and director of the Creative Vision Factory, in Wilmington. When he isn't working to help others through art, Kalmbach makes his own.

9 years ago

Idalmis Garcia Rodriguez in “¡Bienvenidos Blancos!” from Team Sunshine Performance Corporation, at FringeArts.  (Photo courtesy of Kate Raines/Plate 3 Photography)
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

‘¡Bienvenidos Blancos!’ — Welcome, White People! — to Cuba, from Team Sunshine

How the history of Cuba and the revolution continues to shape the identities of Cubans and their American kin.

9 years ago

The top of the entryway arch is lifted by crane Friday afternoon. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
View Finders
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Behind the scenes of the Chinese Lantern Festival

The steel-framed lanterns are created by 20 artisans from Tianyu Arts & Culture.

9 years ago

The AMC cinema in Riyadh hosted the first film screening in more than three decades on April 18. Movie theaters open to the wider public next month after Saudi Arabia lifted a 35-year ban on cinemas as part of a far-reaching liberalization drive. (Bandar Al-Jaloud/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
International
Movies
Politics

As Saudi Arabia’s cinema ban ends, filmmakers eye new opportunities

An elite group of movie lovers in the Saudi capital Riyadh got a special treat on Wednesday — a screening of the Hollywood blockbuster Black Panther.

9 years ago

Jayce Ogren is the Artistic Director of Orchestra 2001. (Provided)
NewsWorks Tonight
Music
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

More than a ‘Freakout’: Exploring Frank Zappa’s classical roots with two Philly performances

Orchestra 2001 will perform on Sunday, April 22 at World Café Live, and Saturday, April 28 at the Fillmore.

9 years ago

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