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Arts & Entertainment

A mural honoring journalist and Philadelphia native Ed Bradley by Ernel Martinez will be installed in West Philadelphia. (Ernel Martinez-Mural Arts Philadelphia)

New mural to honor Philly native Ed Bradley of ’60 Minutes’

One of Philadelphia’s native sons — television journalist Ed Bradley — will be the subject of a public mural in West ...

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 Christopher Gruits is the new executive and artistic director of the Annenberg Center. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)

Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts announces new season

This week, the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts will release the schedule for the 2017-2018 season, beginning in the fall. It wil ...

9 years ago

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Nature and the environment come together in an art lesson for Wilmington students [video]

A simple project like using colored pencils to draw their favorite animals could turn into a lifelong lesson for 5th graders in Mrs. Morris' art class.

9 years ago

Cells for tuburculosis patients included wooden folding doors backed by iron bars so inmates could take the air. About half of all deaths at the prison were attributed to tuberculosis. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

For the first time, historic prison offers tours of the hospital [photos]

The caretakers of Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary keep the 19th-century prison in “suspended decay” —  ...

9 years ago

 Philadelphia's Poet Laureate Yolanda Wisher. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

On ‘Radio Times’: Yolanda Wisher and Patrick Rosal celebrate National Poetry Month

Earlier this morning, Marty Moss-Coane asked Yolanda Wisher and Patrick Rosal to share some of their poems. April is Nat ...

9 years ago

Patti LaBelle talks desserts, including that famous pie [photos]

Everybody knows Patti LaBelle is a musical icon. But in recent years, the Philadelphia native has come to be known for her food as m ...

9 years ago

 FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2008 file photo, filmmaker Jonathan Demme poses during the photo call of the movie

Director of ‘Philadelphia’ Jonathan Demme dies at age 73

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9 years ago

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 Aubie Merrylees talks to the devil in 'Hand to God' at Philadelphia Theatre Company. (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘Hand to God,’ with a puppet on it

I’m convinced that a special place awaits me in heaven because, feeling duty-bound, I went to see the play “Hand to God” ...

9 years ago

Former NFL quarterback Ron Jaworski summarizes the NFL’s grants to Philadelphia children’s programs at the NFL Draft kick-off event at McCall Elementary. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

NFL’s ‘big football fan fest’ includes community improvements for Philly [photos]

The NFL draft doesn’t start until Thursday night, but NFL draft week is officially upon us. On Tuesday, public officials and ...

9 years ago

 Blues artist Ruthie Foster playing live at WHYY as Radio Times host Marty Moss-Coane listens in (Facebook Live)

On ‘Radio Times’: Blues artist Ruthie Foster credits her grandmother for her music

Earlier this morning, Marty Moss-Coane talked to Foster about the poems her grandmother, affectionately known as “Big Mama,” made her ...

9 years ago

 Eakins Oval on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway is being taken over for the NFL Draft, April 27 to 29. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Speak Easy
Public Spaces
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The NFL vs. Picasso

As I inch my car around the Art Museum circle, through a maze of orange cones and forklifts, I try to remember why this is happening. Why ...

9 years ago

musican Ruthie Foster
Radio Times
Music

Ruthie Foster’s Joy Comes Back

Blues artist RUTHIE FOSTER said she wanted to slow down and get back to t ...

Air Date: April 25, 2017

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 Pianist Orrin Evans, curator of the Philadelphia Jazz Festival.(Photo by John Abbott)

Dueling jazz festivals bring Philadelphia Jazz Appreciation Month to a crescendo

Just when you thought Philadelphia’s event schedule couldn’t get any busier (as we gear up for the NFL draft and the Penn Rel ...

9 years ago

 In the People's Light production of 'I and You,' Claire Inie-Richards and Ricardy Charles Fabre. (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘I and You,’ confined to a room

It’s a rare play that suddenly gathers steam the way Lauren Gunderson’s “I and You” does. At People’s Light ...

9 years ago

 Suzanne Roberts Theatre is for sale, and the company that uses it is looking for cash to carry them into the next season. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Philadelphia Theatre Company sets year-long intermission from production

The Philadelphia Theatre Company will not produce a 2017-2018 theater season. Instead, the company occupying the Suzanne Roberts T ...

9 years ago

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