Arts & Entertainment
Quilts for the walls: Delaware artist goes from teaching biochemistry to making ‘art quilts’
Virginia Abrams was teaching biochemistry, when she discovered art quilts. She's since traded the lab for a sewing machine.
9 years ago
‘Hunger doesn’t look the way you think it looks’
A mobile exhibition about the faces of hunger in America has rolled into the Philadelphia area. The multimedia gallery of document ...
9 years ago
Review: ‘Tomfoolery,’ but far from foolish
Tom Lehrer, a master of irreverence, wrote cheerful songs that slammed core Establishment values in the ’50s and also land punches ...
9 years ago
ListenCarol Burnett brings her Q&A format show to Philadelphia
When comedy legend Carol Burnett, 83, takes the stage of the Kimmel Center on April 11, it will be a throwback to The Carol Burnett Show ...
9 years ago
Art and data marry to illuminate stories of life on the Schuylkill River
President Trump is committed to eliminating the Waters of the U.S. Rule, which outlines federally protected ...
9 years ago
National Constitution Center brings back its Prohibition exhibit
One more for the road. The National Constitution Center is re-staging its exhibition, “American Spirits: the Rise and Fall o ...
9 years ago
For these ceramic and wood artists, small is beautiful
Right now, the Clay Studio in Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood looks like a doll house lover’s dream. The walls hol ...
9 years ago
On ‘Radio Times’: Author Yiyun Li on loving a tyrannical mother
Author Yiyun Li wrote her latest literary work, “Dear Fr ...
9 years ago
Puerto Rican superhero comic book launches national tour in Philadelphia
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s La Bori ...
9 years ago
On ‘Radio Times’: 13th-century Persian poet Rumi
Getting a welcome diversion from politics, Marty Moss-Coane talked about the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi on today’s Radio Times on W ...
9 years ago
What does black joy look like? Moments from ‘Black History Untold’ event [photos + video]
“My joy is waiting 40 years to fulfill a dream, because a dream delayed is not a dream deferred,” Barbara Ann Fields said. Almost 70, ...
9 years ago
Trump address react; Rumi’s life and poetry
Guests: Ron Elving, Brad Gooch President Trump addressed the nation and Congress last night in his first prime-ti ...
Air Date: March 1, 2017
Listen 00:48:59Chinese Lantern Festival returning to Philadelphia with new exhibits
The Chinese Lantern Festival will return to Philadelphia this summer. For the second year, the nighttime display of giant, ornate ...
9 years ago
The changing nature of paper reflects the changing way we communicate
If music has charms to calm the savage breast, can art soothe the distraught body politic? “Paperscapes” at the ...
9 years ago
On ‘Radio Times’: Sorry, ‘Moonlight,’ sorry, ‘La La Land’
Starting off as a predicable awards show, the Oscars dramatically turned awkward Sunday night when the producers of ‘La La LandR ...
9 years ago