Arts & Entertainment
Born 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 ...
9 years ago
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 ...
9 years ago
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 ...
9 years ago
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 ...
9 years ago
ListenFlower show spotlights National Parks and features winter beer garden
In the dead of winter, the Philadelphia Flower Show can be a beacon, reminding us of the coming spring and this year will be more about w ...
9 years ago
Kenney taps poet laureate for city
Mayor Jim Kenney has appointed Philadelphia’s new poet laureate. Yolanda Wisher will officially advocate for education and civic en ...
9 years ago
Hope for reform The desire for prison reforms have been coming from many corners of the state. Keeping young men f ...
Air Date: February 5, 2016
Eligible retrievers take the field for Puppy Bowl [photos]
Super Bowl Sunday has developed its own series of rituals: chips and dip, the halftime show, the commercials, and, in the last several ye ...
9 years ago
ListenSS United States could be turned into luxury cruise ship
An ocean liner bigger than the Titanic that once carried celebrities across the Atlantic at record speeds may one day sail again. ...
9 years ago
‘Cold Mountain’ finds fresh voice with Opera Philadelphia
It is a National Book Award-winning novel, an Academy Award-winning film, and now it’s an opera. Opera Philade ...
9 years ago
ListenFrom Toynbee to Point Breeze, Philly rapper Lushlife steps forward in the city that sustains him
Raj Haldar is a Philly guy pretty much all the way through. Now he’s ready to release his third LP, “ ...
9 years ago
Young ‘Iron Man’ fan from South Jersey becomes part of hero’s comic book story [photos]
A 5-year-old boy in Voorhees, New Jersey, has become a global sensation for his appearance in an “Iron Man” comic book. Max L ...
9 years ago
ListenPacking a lesson in perseverance, play about disintegrating school staged at Suzanne Roberts
Ever wonder what happens to the teachers, administrators, the whole universe of people who work in a large urban high school when it shut ...
9 years ago
ListenDuPont’s downfall This week Delaware Governor Jack Markell releases his budget wish list for 2017. We’ll go ov ...
Air Date: January 29, 2016