Arts & Entertainment
Review: A high old time at ‘Lafferty’s Wake’
Let’s raise a pint to Charlie Lafferty. He was easy with a joke, yet quick to anger. He was a good husband, except when he&nbs ...
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Kevin Smith to shoot ‘Clerks III’ in Philly
This week, filmmaker Kevin Smith posted to Facebook that “Clerks III” – a sequel to his hit 1994 indie film – wil ...
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Sculpture above Academy of the Fine Arts entrance packs a Punch
You don’t see too many buildings with a plinth about the door, anymore. The small platform built into a building façade to support ...
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Review: The red-hot ‘Field Hockey Hot’
The new musical “Field Hockey Hot” is a hoot. It’s the first world premiere that the spunky 11th Hour Theatre Company h ...
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First for Friday, March 13, 2015
The Player’s Knee The melting snow means the spring and summer season are right around the corner. For years, doctors and ...
Air Date: March 13, 2015
Review: ‘Macbeth’ newly faceted
It’s not just the three sisters who are weird in the current version of “Macbeth” at Arden Theatre Company. Alexander B ...
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It’s not just the three sisters who are weird in the current version of “Macbeth” at Arden Theatre Company. Alexander B ...
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ListenPhilly students take (many) steps to bring complicated world of Rube Goldberg to life
For several months, high school students across Philadelphia have been trying to figure out the most complicated way to erase a chalkboar ...
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ListenWith city in flux, public art project seeks ideas for new Philly monument
A new public art and research project is posing this question to Philadelphians: What is your ideal city monument? ...
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ListenContemporary artists find resonance in old folk tradition
“When you make a tweet and put an image with it, it has a lot more power,” said British artist Bob and Roberta Smith. “ ...
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Bright hallmarks of early German immigrants, fraktur collection goes to Philly art museum
Life was not easy for many of the German immigrants who arrived in Philadelphia in the 18th century. They dispersed throughout Southeaste ...
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ListenWith new owner, Prince Theater continues reign in Center City
A longtime renter has stepped up to buy the troubled Prince Theater in Center City Philadelphia. The 450-seat venue on Chestnut Street at ...
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ListenFormer gallery owner who built other artists gets her own show at Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is giving Shelley Spector her first solo museum show. The sculpture artist has been a longtime Philadelphi ...
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First for Friday, March 6, 2015
Seashore Mallow Delaware’s coast line is slowly being eaten away every time there is a major storm, and through the effect ...
Air Date: March 6, 2015
How turning 40 helped Yannick Nézet-Séguin conduct long-silent pieces
This week, for the first time in its history, the Philadelphia Orchestra is performing Vaughan Williams’ Symphony Number 4. ...
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