
Arts & Entertainment
First for Friday, July 25, 2014
Enhancing the zoo Red pandas and bald eagles are the newest additions to the Brandywine Zoo. Did we mention the monkeys are comi ...
Air Date: July 25, 2014
‘Philadelphia 11’ blazed trail for female priests in the Episcopal Church
Forty years ago, women were ordained for the first time as Episcopal priests at the Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia. It was ...
11 years ago
ListenMarian Anderson Award going to Jon Bon Jovi
The Marian Anderson Award this year will go to Jon Bon Jovi. The annual award — given to an artist to acknowledge his or her ...
11 years ago
Steeped in tragic history, Lancaster theater has played many roles
The Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania — a jewel box theater that is one of the oldest in the U.S. — was built on ...
11 years ago
ListenReview: ‘We Are Bandits’ in a single community
Theater happens wherever it’s made, and in two places at once: the theater itself and whatever place is created on the stage. In th ...
11 years ago
Girls Rock Philly helps young musicians break sound barriers
Girls at a summer workshop for rock and roll in Philadelphia are not just learning how to play music, they are learning to make the instr ...
11 years ago
ListenReview: ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’ and the playwright, too
Bucks County Playhouse is doing “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” just the way it should be done: as a whole-hearted goof ...
11 years ago
Brave new voices ring out for poetry competition in Philly [photos]
About 450 young poets from around the country are in Philadelphia as part of the 17th annual ...
11 years ago
ListenBuilding a detailed model of Philly, block by Lego block [gallery]
The city of Philadelphia is now being rendered in Lego. Every building in Center City – from Race Street down to Spruce Street, ...
11 years ago
Review: A ‘Herringbone’ that’s checkered
From: The Department of Basic Accuracy and Clarity Re: Flashpoint Theatre’s “Herringbone” We have complet ...
11 years ago
First for Friday, July 18, 2014
This episode will be available for viewing through August 3. Fire Fight Nobody will argue ...
Air Date: July 18, 2014
For this storyteller, ‘The Legend of Zelda’ theme song was a life-changer
Last weekend at the Tin Angel in Philadelphia, storytellers told tales about the song that either defined or changed their lives. For Joh ...
11 years ago
ListenFrom Pussy Riot to Susan B. Anthony, Philly production fuses eight stories of protest
Pussy Riot, the Russian activist collective whose members were jailed following a guerrilla performance in a Moscow church, is now the in ...
11 years ago
Review: ‘Bach at Leipzig,’ accompanied by lesser colleagues
The super-talky “Bach at Leipzig” is a battle among inferiors fighting for the same high position. In Leipzig, Germany, the g ...
11 years ago
Filmmaker choreographs ‘horse tuning’ in North Philly
Before he traveled from Paris to Philadelphia, filmmaker Mohamed Bourouissa thought cowboys were like John Wayne or the Marlboro Man, i.e ...
11 years ago