Arts & Entertainment
First for Friday, June 27, 2014
Firefly: Bigger and Better Delaware is now a music destination. That’s what people who were at the third annual Firefly f ...
Air Date: June 27, 2014
In grand gesture, Bucks sculptor’s towering work takes root at Doylestown museum
A Bucks County artist known for sculpting massive tree-root systems is spreading all throughout the Michener Museum in Doylestown. ...
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Liberian Women’s Chorus for Change using music to heal in Southwest Philly
About 15,000 Liberian immigrants live in Philadelphia. Their presence became painfully visible when a fire ripped through several rowhous ...
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Changes ahead for Philly arts funding as Pew invests more in less
The Pew Center of Arts and Heritage in Philadelphia recently announced its 2014 grant winners, pouring nearly $10 million into the region ...
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Review: The turmoil of ‘The Toughest Boy in Philadelphia’
The suffragettes of the early 20th century were looking for political emancipation, they weren’t looking for Betty Friedan and wome ...
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Philly Comic Con visitors let their alter egos out to play
If you see any caped crusaders milling around the Philadelphia this weekend, it’s not a bird, it’s not a plane, it’s th ...
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First for Friday, June 20, 2014
Heroin’s hold A common perception about heroin addiction is that it is a poor, inner-city problem. Recently, a nationwide ...
Air Date: June 20, 2014
15 summer songs that memories are made of
What is the sound of your summer? We asked people around the office at WHYY about their favorite summer songs and the memories that go wi ...
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Review: ‘Miz Martha’ Washington’s dreamy dilemma
On Planet Internet, where anything at all can become fact even if it isn’t, you might think that the nation’s first First Lad ...
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N.J. celebrates 350 years of history from devious duke to ‘Boxing Cats’ [video]
June 24 marks the 350th birthday of New Jersey. Not the State of New Jersey, of course, but the territory of New Jersey. In ...
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‘Unconstitutional’ Colin Quinn brings a lot of Philadelphia to one-man show
After comedian and social commentator Colin Quinn decided he could make an entire show out of skewering the U.S. Constitution and our rel ...
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Classical music to sound again at Philly’s Dell Music Center
This weekend, classical music will return to the Dell Music Center for the first time in four decades. ...
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SS United States propeller saved from the scrap yard
A $120,000 donation from a cruise industry executive has saved the SS United States’ last propeller from the scrap yard. Jim ...
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Little Baby’s not crying over Big Gay addition to Philadelphia ice cream scene
Despite my best efforts, a gangland rivalry between New York and Philadelphia could be not fabricated. ...
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Philly fans celebrate USA soccer victory in World Cup [photos]
Soccer fans flooded the Piazza at Schmidt’s on Monday night to watch Team USA’s first 2014 World Cup appearance on the big screen ...
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