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Arts & Entertainment

A screenshot of Mountain Dew and Doritos Blaze's 2018 Super Bowl ad.
NPR

Super Bowl ads 2018: The best, the weirdest and the most complicated

The cost was daunting: With well over 100 million viewers expected to tune in this year, NBC charged just over $5 million for each 30 second spot.

9 years ago

A piece by Kara Walker at the
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity
Visual Arts

Sex! Pop! Race! ‘Black Pulp!’ comes to Philadelphia African American Museum

The "Black Pulp" traveling exhibition about high-brow and low-brow black art comes to the African American Museum in Philadelphia.

9 years ago

The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts is using its exhibition of the photographs of Chuck Close to start conversations about sexual misconduct in the art world. Close, shown here in ''Self-Portrait/Five Part'' has been acused of treating female models in a sexually degrading way.

Chuck Close exhibit remains, but PAFA adds companion show

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia responds to allegations against artist Chuck Close by adding a companion show.

9 years ago

Radio Times
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Sports

Our super Super Bowl extravaganza!

Guests: Mike Sielski, Jim Kenney, Jake Tapper, Ed Rendell The Eagles are going to the Super Bowl! We begin by getting a pre ...

Air Date: February 2, 2018

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Actor Ed Asner takes the stage at Congregation Rodelph Shalom for a run-through of
History
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Ed Asner brings play about Holocaust controversy to Philly

Ed Asner appeared in "The Soap Myth," a play about an allegation against the Nazis.

9 years ago

In Theatre Exile's production of
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts

‘Really.’ Really? (Theatre Exile)

Silly me, I thought I was going to the theater to see a play. I did go to the theater — Theatre Exile. But there was no play. There was, instead, something called “Really."

9 years ago

The cast of EgoPo Classic Theater's Lydie Breeze Trilogy Part One.
NewsWorks Tonight
Performing Arts

Small Philly theater company takes on big play cycle

Where no theater has gone before: EgoPo takes on John Guare's 'Lydie Breeze' trilogy.

9 years ago

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** FILE ** Turkish author Elif Shafak is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Istanbul, Turkey, in this Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006 file photo.  A Turkish court on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006, acquitted Elif Shafak, one of Turkey's leading authors, saying there was no evidence that she
Radio Times
Books
Gender
International

Elif Shafak’s “Three Daughters of Eve”

ELIF SHAFAK is an award-winning Turkish novelist who writes about women’s and min ...

9 years ago

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** FILE ** Turkish author Elif Shafak is seen during an interview with The Associated Press in Istanbul, Turkey, in this Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006 file photo.  A Turkish court on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006, acquitted Elif Shafak, one of Turkey's leading authors, saying there was no evidence that she
Radio Times
Books

Elif Shafak’s “Three Daughters of Eve” / Trump’s address

Guest: Philip Bump, Elif Shafak ELIF SHAFAK is an award-win ...

Air Date: January 31, 2018

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Brooklyn artist Ventiko bought a plane ticket for Dexter but he was not allowed to fly. (Screenshot of dexterthepeacock Instagram post)
New Jersey

Airline tells peacock you can’t fly

A United Airlines passenger who tried to take her emotional support peacock with her on a cross-country flight has had the bird turned aw ...

9 years ago

“Step Sisters” writer/executive producer and Delaware native Chuck Hayward (PhillyTrib)
The Philadelphia Tribune
Movies
Race & Ethnicity

‘Step Sisters’ movie and cultural appropriation 101

Tribune Digital Editor Nicki Mayo talks with “Step Sisters” writer/executive producer and Delaware native Chuck Hayward.

9 years ago

PMA staff gathers to sing the Eagles Fight Song ahead of the Super Bowl. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Sports
Visual Arts

Philadelphia Museum of Art to trash talk Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

The rivalry between Philadelphia and Boston expanded today on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

9 years ago

James Franco at the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards
Speak Easy
Gender

Can award season provide a path to justice in Hollywood?

Given the way the ceremony ended, when Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty ...

9 years ago

The War on Drugs perform in concert during the Radio 104.5 Summer Block Party
Music
Philadelphia

Local musicians shine at the Grammy Awards

Although you may not have seen it on television, Philadelphia was represented broadly in last night’s Grammy Awards.

9 years ago

Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts

Pawing our way through ‘Tiger Style!’ (Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists)

Oh, the pain of diligence and excelling...

9 years ago

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