Arts & Entertainment
Turning the tables on technology with ’78 Project’ recordings
Some Philadelphia filmmakers and musicians are showing their love of old records by recording their own on antique equipment. Jose ...
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With LiveNote app, Philadelphia Orchestra widens the curtain on musical experience
The Philadelphia Orchestra is inviting its audience to, please, turn on your cell phones during the performance. A series of three ...
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A Chadds Ford homecoming for Jamie Wyeth retrospective [photos]
The house that Jamie Wyeth grew up in – an old farmhouse he later shared with this father, Andrew Wyeth, as studio space – is now pre ...
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Grandson thinks big to save Oscar Hammerstein’s farm in Bucks County [photos]
Some of America’s most famous musicals including “Oklahoma,” “The King and I” and “The Sound of Music ...
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Federal analysis: Arts, culture add $700B to US economy
New research from the National Endowment for the Arts and U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis shows that the arts and culture sector contrib ...
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Wilma’s ‘Body of an American’ frames story of haunting war photograph
The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia is now producing “The Body of an American,” a documentary-style play about war photographer ...
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First for Friday, January 9, 2015
New year, new faces 2015 is already off to a wild start. DelDOT will have a new leader, Delaware is offering ‘Endless Dis ...
Air Date: January 9, 2015
Review: ‘Motown: The Musical,’ with A and B sides
Nobody can tell a good story about Berry Gordy Jr. better than Berry Gordy Jr. And the bad ones? Well, some of them are even in “Mo ...
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Barnes Foundation appoints native son as new leader
After the Barnes Foundation completed its controversial move to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, the art institution looked ...
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The Olde Bar is new edition of iconic Bookbinder’s
The Old Original Bookbinder’s, once the go-to place for politicians, mobsters, and movie stars, opens Friday as The Olde Bar. ...
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Bruce Katsiff’s photos explore the grotesque beauty that living bodies can hide [photos]
I witnessed photographer Bruce Katsiff’s fascination with death and the beauty of decay when I accompanied him to Austin, Texas, in ...
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Film insiders worry about Western Pennsylvania losing role in industry
Western Pennsylvania’s film industry is having growing pains. It just wrapped up a blockbuster year that included the simultan ...
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New Philly residency program combines endeavors artistic, altruistic
Two-hundred artists from around the world applied for a series of three-month residencies in West Philadelphia this year. Fifteen were se ...
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Blogging about bringing humanity to the workplace
Susan Richardson describes her Human At Work blog at NewsWorks.org to NewsWorks Tonight host Da ...
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Out from the crossing’s shadow, Battle of Princeton gets re-enactment of its own
For several years the Princeton Battlefield in New Jersey has been home of a clash between developers and preservationists — a fight on ...
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