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Every week listeners hear stories about race and identity that expand their minds, and learn practical ways to make their lives better. It's lifelong learning that ranges from the big picture to tiny details and everything in between.

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Arts & Entertainment

 The Surflight Theatre on Long Beach Island (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)

Fire, debt, storm conspire to sink Jersey Shore theater

More than two years later, Hurricane Sandy is still causing damage at the Jersey Shore. The Surflight Theatre on Long Beach Island ...

11 years ago

Gift to Princeton puts spotlight on rare books housed at the university for decades [photos]

Last week, Paul Needham got a call at 8:30 p.m., from the BBC. It was 1:30 a.m. London time, and a late-night radio show wanted to talk w ...

11 years ago

 Steven A. Wright as Othello in the Curio Theatre Company production. (Photo courtesy of Kyle Cassidy)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘Othello’ with no-frills power

In a small, bare playing space with the audience on three sides, Curio Theatre Company delivers a sizzling “Othello.” Th ...

11 years ago

A preparer Princeton University Art Museum puts the finishing touches on The City Lost & Found, a photographic exploration of New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles from 1960 to 1980. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Photos at Princeton chronicle urban decline, and show pathways to solutions

The show features photojournalism, urban planning maps, film loops, and art photography to show how all these forms of image-making contr ...

11 years ago

 Buck Schirner (left) as Walt Whitman and Daniel Fredrick as Oscar Wilde in Walnut Street Theatre's production of 'Mickle Street.'
Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘Mickle Street,’ or wherever

Playwrights fool with history all the time. — Shakespeare made a career of it. Normally, they get the basics — the found ...

11 years ago

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First for Friday, February 20, 2015

Recipe for success In 2013, a study examined how many Delaware inmates return to prison after being released, the numbers weren& ...

Air Date: February 20, 2015

 Makoto Hirano in the  Plays & Players production of 'Hold These Truths.' (Photo courtesy of  Ted Tarnovski)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘Hold These Truths,’ but tighter

All of a sudden Gordon Hirabayashi wasn’t allowed to study with his classmates at the University of Washington library at night. He ...

11 years ago

 Opera Philadelphia General Director David Devan and Pulitzer Prize- winning composer Jennifer Higdon.  Devan's company commissioned Higdon's opera based on Charles Frazier's bestselling novel, Cold Mountain. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Back to ‘Cold Mountain’ – but this time the doomed lovers will sing

The Civil War novel Cold Mountain won the National Book Award in 1997, and spawned an Oscar-winning film in 2003.  Next yea ...

11 years ago

Hollyhocks, 1911, by Frederick Carl Frieseke. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Exhibit explores how ‘art in the garden’ helped social change blossom [photos]

Could a spade and garden trowel be tools of revolution? “Gardening is a surprisingly political act,” observes Anna Mar ...

11 years ago

 Kate Czajkowski and Scott Greer in Theatre Exile's production of 'The Whale.' (Photo courtesy of Paola Nogueras)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: Capturing ‘The Whale’

It took designer Alison Roberts about a month to construct the enormous fat-suit costume for Charlie, the grotesque, wheezing 600-po ...

11 years ago

Photographer captures the secret life of fourth graders

Photographer Judy Gelles was volunteering in a reading class at a fourth grade in a Philadelphia school when she realized that her studen ...

11 years ago

 Ben Michael (left) and Alex Bechtel as two princes in Theatre Horizon's production of 'Into the Woods.' (Photo courtesy of Theatre Horizon)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘Into the Woods’ without needing the trees

Sometimes, less isn’t just more – it’s way, way more. From the get-go, Theatre Horizon co-founder Matthew Decker wanted to ...

11 years ago

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 Sarah Blake, in her living room in Havertown, Pa., holds a copy of her book, Mr. West, an unauthorized biography of Kanye West in poems. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Poet unpacks Kanye’s rhymes to celebrate the life of ‘Mr. West’

With “Mr. West,” poet Sarah Blake attempts to write an unauthorized biography of Kanye West, in verse. As a work of li ...

11 years ago

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First for Friday, February 13, 2015

Retooling Habitat for Humanity Many of you know about Habitat for Humanity and its mission to put those in need, in quality home ...

Air Date: February 13, 2015

 Michael Learned and James Lloyd Reynolds in the Philadelphia Theatre Company production of 'Mothers and Sons.' (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater

Reviews: ‘Mothers and Sons’ — and Everyone’s a Critic

Accompanying Howard Shapiro’s review, we also present the reviews of three audience members who attended Wednesday’s ope ...

11 years ago

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