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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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 A South Philly String Band marches in the 2012 Mummers Parade in Philadelphia.  (Howard Pitkow / for NewsWorks)

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 ...

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 Patrice Covington, in gold outfit, as Martha Reeves (from Martha and the Vandellas) in 'Motown: The Musical' at the Academy of Music. (Photo courtesy of Joan Marcus)
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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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 Thom Collins, a native of Media, Pa., will take the helm at the Barnes. He returns to the area after five years as head of the Pérez Art Museum in Miami. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

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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 Pittsburgh Strip District neighborhood, home to 31st Street Studios. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)

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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 One of PEC's favorite works was Philly Painting, taking place in Germantown. Neighborhood artists finish up one of the last buildings to be painted — the project itself was initiated by Haas&Hahn via Mural Arts. (Image via brokencitylab.org/People’s Emergency Center)

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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Princeton Battlefield State Park preserves the Clark House, where American General Hugh Mercer died of his wounds. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

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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George Beerley is one of three people featured in the 'Torn Apart' series.  (Emma Lee/for WHYY)

Golden Sunrise, the last fancy club, prepares to Mummer it up for 2015

Two days before New Year’s Day, the Golden Sunrise fancy club set up a roadblock on Greenwich Street in South Philadelphia, to have ...

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Abandoned America website spawns book on crumbling beauties

When Matthew Christopher enters an abandoned building, he looks for grand architecture in decay, and random stuff people left behind: cha ...

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Conductor Nathaniel guests guides the engine driver he approaches a road. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Vintage railroad again on track to bring prosperity to Pa. towns

A historic train line used to service iron forges in Pennsylvania’s rural Berks and Montgomery counties has been revived to serve a ...

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