
Arts & Entertainment
Play written for Philly butcher shop a lesson in Mexican-American history
Every night this week, a short play will be performed in front of the meat cases of a butcher shop in Philadelphia’s Italian Market ...
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Philadelphia Art Museum exhibit snaps, crackles and pops with energetic color [photos]
At the new exhibit on International Pop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, ...
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ListenPoetic Address to the Nation hosted by new Philly Poet Laureate
This weekend, Philadelphia’s poet laureate will host her first poetry event since earning this accolade. Yolanda Wisher will delive ...
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Harper Lee, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ author, has died at 89
Harper Lee, the elusive author whose “To Kill a Mockingbird” became an enduring best-seller and classic film with its child ...
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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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