Arts & Entertainment
This is how NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’ might look as a dance
This weekend, a Philadelphia performance troupe will dance to NPR. A dancers will perform a choreographed work to a soundtrack of ...
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Fabric museum exhibit asks the big question: Who determines when something is art?
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has become the subject of a new artwork at another museum. The Fabric Workshop and Museum commissio ...
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On ‘Radio Times:’ Bill Hayes shares stories of famed neurologist Oliver Sacks
For a science writer who never sleeps, New York City seemed to be the perfect place to call home. After grieving the death of his partner ...
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National Museum of American Jewish History exhibit links 1917 to today’s debate on immigration
The debates America is having right now about President Trump’s proposed immigration ban can be traced back at least 100 years, accordi ...
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Nor’easter cuts into the Philadelphia Flower Show attendance
It seems like every year the Philadelphia Flower Show suffers some kind of weather event. But the show goes on, even as the city’s ...
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My addiction, my world, my Phillies
An alcoholic needs to have a drink all the time. A drug user needs to get a quick fix. I am obsessed with the Philadelphia Phillies.
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Film director Jonathan Demme to sell off part of his Haitian art collection
The art collection of film director Jonathan Demme is now on display at a Philadelphia auction house. It will be sold off this weekend.&n ...
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On ‘Radio Times’: Mohsin Hamid urges Americans to take risks
Generally, when we hear stories of refugees fleeing their war torn home countries, they’re traveling by sea, land or air. In Mohsin Ham ...
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The Philadelphia Flower Show brings the land of tulips here
On Thursday, inside the Pennsylvania Convention Center, landscape architects and floral designers were putting final touches on their int ...
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‘Moonlight’ illuminates a new vision of the black community
“Moonlight” is more than just an LGBT story. It subtly redefines who and what the black community is. Yes, there is violence, ...
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Why federal support for the arts matters
Just before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, The Hill — a news organization that covers Congress — reported the incoming admi ...
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Advocacy group says pre-K art classes may improve learning
An arts advocacy organization in Philadelphia has issued the first of a series of reports outlining how, exactly, the arts benefit the ci ...
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Quilts for the walls: Delaware artist goes from teaching biochemistry to making ‘art quilts’
Virginia Abrams was teaching biochemistry, when she discovered art quilts. She's since traded the lab for a sewing machine.
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‘Hunger doesn’t look the way you think it looks’
A mobile exhibition about the faces of hunger in America has rolled into the Philadelphia area. The multimedia gallery of document ...
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Review: ‘Tomfoolery,’ but far from foolish
Tom Lehrer, a master of irreverence, wrote cheerful songs that slammed core Establishment values in the ’50s and also land punches ...
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