
Arts & Entertainment
Raising questions and challenging conventional wisdom, Malcolm Gladwell visits Penn
When Malcolm Gladwell’s best-selling book “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants” was p ...
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‘School Play’ spotlights Pennsylvania’s educational funding quandary
A play about the current state of Pennsylvania public schools will premiere at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia this week ...
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ListenArts groups make musical case for more Philly funding [photos]
As Philadelphia City Council continues its ongoing hearings to determine the budget for the next fiscal year, artists congregated at City ...
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Review: ‘Hamlet,’ explained and not
To be obscure or not to be, that is the question that pervades Wilma Theater’s production of “Hamlet.” And the answer i ...
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First for Friday, April 3, 2015
Porcelain Artist Irma Reinhold has been painting porcelain for 50 years. She started out doing watercolors, but a ...
Air Date: April 3, 2015
Displaced Philly theater companies set the stage for creative hub [photos]
Five displaced theater companies in Philadelphia will turn a former hotel ballroom into a creative hub for new theater. Behind the ...
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Review: ‘And Then There Were None,’ one by one
Ten little soldiers went out to dine. One choked his little self and then there were nine. Just like the ditty about the bottles ...
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Nutter launches monthlong salute to all that jazz, honoring McCoy Tyner [photos]
Q: Where does Mayor Michael Nutter get his jazz fix? A: In his black, 2008 Chevy Tahoe hybrid. ...
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A peek into Bethlehem factory where Peeps are born [photos]
For more than six decades, little marshmallow chicks have been roosting in Easter baskets. But rarely does anyone get a peep behind the s ...
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Listen‘Intervals’ challenges visitors to consider what happened in between
Experimental, Puerto Rico-based artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla like to explore the spaces between the past and the pres ...
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ListenSigma Sound building should have been a music history museum
Once again, Philadelphia fails to recognize its own history. When I saw the obituary in a ...
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Yiddish, African-American songs find a voice in one distinctive singer
Anthony Russell says his “bubbe and zayde didn’t speak Yiddish.” Unbeknowst to them, their grandson definitely does. ...
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ListenNew Jersey’s Matchbox car museum is bigger than you might think
The Matchbox Road Museum showcases 50,000 pieces of Matchbox memorabilia, including the well-known miniature models, concept cars, one-of ...
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First for Friday, March 27, 2015
Hidden Picasso Winterthur is renowned in the art restoration world. Currently it’s a part of an international mystery. It ...
Air Date: March 27, 2015
Mural Arts project will try to engage Philadelphians with site-specific art
This year the City of Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program embarks on a nine-month project inviting contemporary artists from around t ...
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