Arts & Entertainment
A look at education issues in the first state, including an interview with the new secretary of education in Delaware, Dr. Steven Godwosk ...
Air Date: February 18, 2016
Review: Making stage sense of ‘Sense and Sensibility’
A fluid, catchy adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” calls for a fluid and catchy production – so it m ...
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ListenSkaters bid farewell to iconic Center City hang-out [photos]
A city-imposed ban prevented at least three generations from skating – legally – at LOVE Park. Last week, this ban was lifted ...
9 years ago
African American Museum traces the influence of Cuban art [photos]
A little-known artistic revolution in Cuba almost 40 years ago is now featured at the African American Museum in Philadelphia. A gro ...
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ListenPrinceton poet’s debut novel features disappearing ‘translator superhero’
“Ways to Disappear” by Idra Novey, a poet, translator, and lecturer in creative writing at Princeton University, is a genre- ...
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ListenWilma Theater’s Blanka Zizka wins $100,000 Vilcek Prize
One afternoon several weeks ago Blanka Zizka was — where else? — in a rehearsal. The artistic director and co-founder (along wit ...
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ListenPhilly’s Satellite Hearts push mainstream music to rise above the superficial
Pop music is garbage, and things aren’t like they used to be, say the boys from Philly band Satellite Hearts, playing in residency thro ...
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Preserving heritage This week on First we look at two aspects of African American Culture. In a moment we’ll go ...
Air Date: February 12, 2016
Skateboarders having final fling in LOVE Park
It’s mere coincidence that the small window of time when Mayor Jim Kenney lifted the longtime ban on skating in Philadelphia’ ...
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ListenAt Penn museum exhibit on treasures of King Midas, all that glitters is not gold
King Midas is known as the man with the golden touch. Legend has it that everything he grasped turned to gold. The myth has been r ...
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ListenBorn to write: Springsteen memoir coming in September
The Boss has a book deal. Simon & Schuster announced Thursday that Bruce Springsteen has spent the past several years working ...
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Amy Winehouse is muse for BalletX dance premiere
BalletX, the Philadelphia modern dance company, is premiering a new work based on the music of Amy Winehouse as the finale of a three-par ...
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ListenZavino group’s Tredici sure to be a Gayborhood sweetheart [photos]
Have you made reservations for Valentine’s Day yet? Consider this: Don’t. Do yourselves a favor and play it by ear. Sk ...
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First Extra: The Delaware Congressional Delegation
Senators Tom Carper, Chris Coon, and Representative John Carney join WHYY’s Shirley Min for a discussion on issues ranging from ter ...
Air Date: February 9, 2016
Philly museum serves as inspiration, setting for reinterpretation of classic film
The Wagner Free Institute of Science in North Philadelphia is a 19th-century natural history museum filled with fossils, minerals, and ta ...
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