
Arts & Entertainment
Please Touch Museum bounces back from bankruptcy
The Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia expects to emerge from bankruptcy proceedings, with an additional $10 million in its coffers,&nbs ...
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ListenUrban Outfitters will buy Vetri Familiy restaurants
Restauranteur Marc Vetri and his front-of-house partner Jeffrey Benjamin will sell their restaurant group to Urban Outfitters. The ...
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After decades of borrowing rock from the West, Mongolian bands find their own voice
In 1973, the most significant cultural exchange in the world was the Philadelphia Orchestra’s first tour of Communist China. ...
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ListenFilmmaker helps young Muslims begin cinematic journey
Growing up in the early 1990s with a budding interest in cinema wasn’t always easy for Musa Syeed. As a Muslim, he was expected to ...
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ListenEastside rising WHYY has been following Wilmington’s Eastside Rising Project from the beginning. Two years ago, ...
Air Date: November 13, 2015
Review: The questions surrounding ‘Equivocation’
Ask me what the play “Equivocation” is about and I could give you lots of answers, including God, souls, religion, politics, ...
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ListenOne day in Philadelphia captured in 1,412 photos on display
Do you remember what happened on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015? For the most part it was a pretty typical day in Philadelphia. It was kind ...
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ListenMummers make strides to bring more diversity to Philadelphia tradition
With its New Year’s Day parade just seven weeks away, the Mummers organization is making changes to bring more diversity to the Phi ...
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Listen‘Outcry!’ responds to deaths of African-Americans at hands of police
The African American Museum in Philadelphia has created an exhibition of work by contemporary artists and installed it somewhere else. Th ...
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ListenCraft NOW brings extra dimension of material-based work to Philly
When art consultant Clara Hollander returned one year from Art Basel, a major art fair in Miami, she was buzzing with ideas about how to ...
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ListenWilkes-Barre barkeep pours his last, as time runs out on Hourglass Lounge
In Northeastern Pennsylvania last weekend, bartender Joe Philistine served his last drink. “I was born to be a bartender, ...
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ListenReview: ‘Lights Rise on Grace’ and set on a triangle
Chad Beckim’s flinty new play “Lights Rise on Grace” is as much about a clash of cultures as it is about trying, and fa ...
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McDole family speaks out It’s been over 6 weeks since wheelchair bound Jeremy McDole was shot and killed by Wilm ...
Air Date: November 6, 2015
Dance troupe building cultural bridges in Mideast visits Philly
A Los Angeles-based modern dance troupe has been asked by the U.S. State Department to act as cultural ambassadors to Israel and Jordan. ...
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ListenRizzo drama once again commands attention in Philly
“Frank Rizzo: The Last Big Man in Big City America,” a 1993 biography, is the basis of a new play, “Rizzo,” now a ...
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