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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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Playwright Arden Kass is co-writer of School Play. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

‘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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Arts supporters gather in the courtyard of City Hall in Philadelphia to rally for arts funding. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Arts 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 ...

10 years ago

 In Wilma Theater's production of 'Hamlet' (from left): Zainab Jah as Hamlet, Keith Conallen and Brian Ratcliffe. (Photo courtesy of Alexander Iziliaev)
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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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museum attic, owls in drawer
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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

Seth Rozin, artistic director of InterAct, opens the doors to the long disused Drake Hotel ballroom, which will soon be converted into a theater. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

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 ...

10 years ago

 The ensemble of Walnut Street Theatre's production of 'And Then There Were None.' (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater

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 ...

10 years ago

Jazz pianist McCoy Tyner is honored in the Mayor's Reception Hall at the Philadelphia Jazz Appreciation Month Kick-off event. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

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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In this Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 photo, Roger Hildebeitel inspects Peeps as they move through the manufacturing process at the Just Born factory in Bethlehem, Pa. With the storied candy brand celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, a quirky new TV ad campaign talks about all the things people do with their Peeps. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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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‘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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 Joe Tarsia, now retired, is shown standing at the mixing board in Philadelphia's Sigma Sound Studios in 2003. Sigma Sound, the source of the echoing, orchestral
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Sigma 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 ...

10 years ago

 Russell tours the US, playing art music and singing in a cantor's style. (Image courtesy of Mario Manzoni)

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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New 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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