Arts & Entertainment
Office of Animal Welfare Delaware’s Office of Animal Welfare kicked off 2016 with new statewide animal control d ...
Air Date: February 19, 2016
Young inmates learn freedom of making music in program that also helps them ‘Beyond Bars’
Musicians from Philadelphia indie rock bands are teaching music to young inmates at a city prison. “Beyond the Bars” is a pro ...
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ListenICYMI: Philebrity’s Joey Sweeney is in a band, and you’re gonna love it
Philebrity publisher Joey Sweeney’s a pretty cool guy, I guess. He and his Long Hair Arkestra band are opening for Eleanor Friedberger ...
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Barnes offers work of WWI Picasso, taking turns with theater and tradition [photos]
This weekend, the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia debuts an exhibition of work by Pablo Picasso painted during World War I, a time the ...
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New Jersey doctor finds heart’s content in collecting, sharing sports memorabilia [photos]
Dr. Nicholas DePace is a cardiologist by trade. When he’s not wearing a white coat, he’s one of the country’s premiere collectors o ...
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ListenA 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 ...
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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 ...
9 years ago
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’ ...
9 years ago
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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