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The New Yorker Radio Hour features a diverse mix of interviews, profiles, storytelling, and an occasional burst of humor inspired by the magazine, and shaped by its writers, artists, and editors. This isn't a radio version of a magazine, but something all its own, reflecting the rich possibilities of audio storytelling and conversation.

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Puerto Rican superhero comic book launches national tour in Philadelphia

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s La Bori ...

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 Dervishes pray during a

On ‘Radio Times’: 13th-century Persian poet Rumi

Getting a welcome diversion from politics, Marty Moss-Coane talked about the 13th-century Persian poet Rumi on today’s Radio Times on W ...

9 years ago

What does black joy look like? Moments from ‘Black History Untold’ event [photos + video]

“My joy is waiting 40 years to fulfill a dream, because a dream delayed is not a dream deferred,” Barbara Ann Fields said. Almost 70, ...

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President Donald Trump speaks to a meeting of the National Governors Association at the White House, Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Trump address react; Rumi’s life and poetry

Guests: Ron Elving, Brad Gooch President Trump addressed the nation and Congress last night in his first prime-ti ...

Air Date: March 1, 2017

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 The Chinese Palace Lantern is brushed by the boughs of a cherry tree. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Chinese Lantern Festival returning to Philadelphia with new exhibits

The Chinese Lantern Festival will return to Philadelphia this summer. For the second year, the nighttime display of giant, ornate ...

9 years ago

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The changing nature of paper reflects the changing way we communicate

If music has charms to calm the savage breast, can art soothe the distraught body politic? “Paperscapes” at the ...

9 years ago

 Jordan Horowitz, producer of

On ‘Radio Times’: Sorry, ‘Moonlight,’ sorry, ‘La La Land’

Starting off as a predicable awards show, the Oscars dramatically turned awkward Sunday night when the producers of ‘La La LandR ...

9 years ago

A monarch butterfly emerges from its chrysalis in the butterfly hatchery. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Philadelphia’s bug house adds hermetically-sealed butterfly pavillion

A bug museum in Philadelphia’s Holmesburg neighborhood has expanded its footprint to include one of the largest butterfly pavilions ...

9 years ago

 In Theatre Exile's production of 'Lost Girls,' from left: Molly Ward, Catharine Slusar, Sean Bradley and Amy Frear. (Photo courtesy of Paola Nogueras)
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Review: ‘Lost Girls’ barely holding on

Not far from Theatre Exile’s Studio X, where a punch-in-the-gut drama called “Lost Girls” is playing, there’s a m ...

9 years ago

 Gotham Chamber Opera performed

Opera Philadelphia prepares binge-worthy moveable feast for fall

Opera Philadelphia will kick off its 2017-2018 season in the fall with a 12-day festival of mostly new opera — six productions in six v ...

9 years ago

American watercolor paintings finally getting respect

Most people – perhaps every person who had ever been exposed to art as a child – knows watercolor. Inexpensive and accessible ...

9 years ago

The streets of Philadelphia are the canvas for Barnes Foundation’s exhibition

This weekend, the Barnes Foundation opens an exhibition that goes beyond the walls of its gallery on the Parkway in Philadelphia. ...

9 years ago

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 Newspaper vending machines are shown in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)
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The joy of writing — and being published

Writing has given me an outlet for my emotions. It organized my thoughts and helped me find my way out of a very dark place. Getting published made me feel equal.

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 Kathryn Petersen as Dolly in the People's Light production of 'The Matchmaker.' (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
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Review: ‘The Matchmaker’ from another era

Thornton Wilder’s play “The Matchmaker” has a sweet innocence from another time, on clear display in a production at Pe ...

9 years ago

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 Chris Davis returns to the Italian Market butcher shop where last winter he staged a one-man play about the Mexican-American War. This time, he depicts the life of Mexico's last emperor, Maximilian I. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Mexican history comes to life at Italian Market butcher

A Philadelphia writer and actor will perform a one-man play about the last emperor of Mexico, in a Mexican butcher shop. It’ ...

9 years ago

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