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First Extra – Delaware Delegation

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Air Date: January 28, 2015

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State of the State 2015

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Air Date: January 27, 2015

 'Young Punch Juggling' by Connecticut-based artist Robert Taplin is the second in an ongoing series of temporary sculptures erected onto the façade of PAFA's historic building on North Broad Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

New sculpture takes up residence on PAFA plinth

A new, temporary sculpture erected over the front door of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a hodgepodge of time eras. ...

10 years ago

Zoe Strauss’ ‘Sea Change’ photos tell unintended story of climate change

Haverford College is exhibiting the work of Zoe Strauss, the renowned Philadelphia photographer who was surprised to discover an unintend ...

10 years ago

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First for Friday, January 23, 2015

State of the State First Look this week is the First State’s message from Governor Markell. We are in Legislative Hall to ...

Air Date: January 23, 2015

 Aimé Donna Kelly (left) and Lynnette R. Freeman in InterAct Theatre Company's world-premiere production of 'The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane,' a play it commissioned. (Photo courtesy of Kate Raines/Plate3Photography)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: Inside ‘The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane’

A South African woman called Pretty Mbane begins speaking, but she is dead. She tells us so. How and why she died – that’s for th ...

10 years ago

 Aimé Donna Kelly (left) and Lynnette R. Freeman in InterAct Theatre Company's world-premiere production of 'The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane,' a play it commissioned. (Photo courtesy of Kate Raines/Plate3Photography)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: Inside ‘The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane’

A South African woman called Pretty Mbane begins speaking, but she is dead. She tells us so. How and why she died – that’s for th ...

10 years ago

 Alex Vuocolo, editor of the new urban cycling magazine Spoke, drops off some copies at Trophy Bikes on Second Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Spoke offering a magazine home to Philly cyclists

It’s out with the old, in with the new: the free bicycle ‘zine — “Urban Velo,” produced nationally for seven ye ...

10 years ago

 Sam Henderson and Gina Martino in Luna Theater Company's production of 'Closer.' (Photo courtesy of Kate Raines, Plate3 Photography)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘Closer’ and in love, four ways

The minute we lay eyes on Alice, which is the minute Patrick Marber’s play “Closer” begins, one thought comes to m ...

10 years ago

 Julianna Zinkel and Craig Spidle  in Arden Theatre Company's production of Michael Hollinger's new play 'Under the Skin' -- one of a number of world premieres here during this second half of the theater season. (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater

Light the Lights! The spring season opens with our NewsWorks theater preview

The second half of the theater season is beginning to bud, and with about 50 professional theater companies in metropolitan Philadelphia, ...

10 years ago

 The cast of Mauckingbird Theatre Company's production of 'Hot 'n' Cole,' from left: Michelle Eugene, Luke Brahdt, Nicole Renna, John McCarthy, Jenna Roglaski, and Philip Anthony Wilson.  (Photo courtesy of Luis Fernando Rodriguez)
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Review: ‘Hot ‘n’ Cole’ in champagne flutes filled with Porter

“Times have changed,” Cole Porter wrote as the first three words to “Anything Goes,” and the current Mauckingbird ...

10 years ago

 Ian Merrill Peakes  (left) and Harry Smith in Wilma Theater's production of 'The Body of an American.' (Photo courtesy of Alexander Iziliaev)
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Review: ‘The Body of an American,’ the travails of a playwright

A writer named Dan O’Brien tuned into “Fresh Air” on August 27, 2007, and this is what Terry Gross was saying: & ...

10 years ago

Voices in the Family

What are teens learning about Civil Rights in school?

For Martin Luther King Day, we offer this rebroadcast: According to a ...

Air Date: January 19, 2015

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The Angelic Exaltation of St. Joseph into Heaven is now officially recognized by the Philadelphia Historical Commission as historically significant. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Painting in Philly’s Old St. Joseph’s Church gets historical panel blessing [photos]

High school students from Holland, Michigan, on an annual class trip to Philadelphia visit the Old St. Joseph’s Church every year j ...

11 years ago

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First for Friday, January 16, 2015

Growing pains This spring, the Delaware Children’s Museum turns five years old. A milestone bringing with it its fair sha ...

Air Date: January 16, 2015

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