Arts & Entertainment
Philadelphia Horticultural Society picks new leader without a green thumb
On the eve of the its annual Flower Show, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society has chosen its new president, Matt Rader. The PHS ...
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ListenPhiladelphia celebrates New Year’s Day 2016 with 116th annual Mummers Parade [photos]
Outrageously costumed Mummers have strutted and twirled at Philadelphia’s annual New Year’s Day parade, a colorful celebratio ...
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With injured Philly actor once again treading the boards, the show goes on
Last spring, just after winning his one of the lead roles in the Walnut Street Theatre’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s ...
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ListenSmithsonian won’t pull Cosby art exhibit after charges
The criminal charges filed Wednesday against Bill Cosby won’t lead to any changes to a Cosby-funded art exhibit at a Smithsonian mu ...
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Mummers hope getting more diverse will help boost crowds and ranks
Los Bomberos de Calle, a traditional Puerto Rican performance troop based in North Philadelphia, is gathering 25 traditional folk masks f ...
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ListenAbstract artist Ellsworth Kelly, creator of sculpture outside Barnes, dies at 92
One of America’s most prominent abstract artists, Ellsworth Kelly, died Sunday at his home in upstate New York. He was 92. K ...
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First Experience: St. Johns Bible Its been 500 years since Benedictine monks took on the herculean task of illuminating a Bible ...
Air Date: December 18, 2015
Rare night tour of Fairmount Park mansions hosted by Scrooge, Cratchit and Fezziwig
Three historic houses in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park are part of a Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol tour. Characters from t ...
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ListenCelebrating ‘Christmas on the Block’
“Christmas on the Block,” the second-most beloved Christmas song to come out of Philadelphia, has been around for more than t ...
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ListenSolomonov wraps national book tour with WHYY event at Zahav
Guests packed the dining room at Zahav in Philadelphia on Sunday for an afternoon of Solomonov and salatim. Guests packed the dini ...
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Review: Then and now, ‘Gentlemen Volunteers’
Pig Iron Theatre Company is celebrating 20 years of bold and unconventional work by restaging an early piece that created a buzz here, th ...
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ListenRoyal visit, Philly accent, Mummers infuse ‘Three Maries’ [photos]
A musical about the Mummers, the Philly accent, and the Queen of Romania: Why did it take so long? Longtime theater composer Micha ...
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ListenInfluential drummer, filmmaker George Manney leaves trove of Philly rock archives
A longtime member of Philadelphia rock music scene has died. But he leaves an impressive legacy. George Manney, a drummer-turned-d ...
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Forgotten cemetery gets new life According to a 2014 study by the US Substance and Mental Health Administration, 42 million Amer ...
Air Date: December 11, 2015