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Arts & Entertainment

Carol Burnett gets Jimmy Stewart museum award

Actress and comedian Carol Burnett has been honored by a Pennsylvania museum dedicated to the actor she calls her idol — Jimmy Stewart. ...

11 years ago

Soldiers traveling to Vietnam aboard crowded troop ships doodled on their canvas bunks, now on display at the Independence Seaport Museum. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Scraps of graffiti left by troops on voyage to Vietnam now at Seaport Museum

“This bunk is the death bed,” wrote a soldier while on a troop ship heading to Vietnam in 1967, scrawling the letters on the ...

11 years ago

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First for Friday, October 3, 2014

Citizen’s Police Academy Random shootings and unsolved crimes are a concern for many Wilmington residents. Some of those ...

Air Date: October 3, 2014

The Frankin Institute explores anatomy with two exhibits: Sesame Street Presents the Body and Animals Inside Out. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

From furry creatures to skinless animals, Franklin offers anatomy lessons [photos]

The Franklin Institute is opening “Body Worlds: Animal Inside Out,” an exhibition featuring dead animals that have been flaye ...

11 years ago

Philadelphia's Schuylkill Banks Boardwalk (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Week-long bike tour launches from Philly’s Schuylkill Banks Boardwalk

This morning the annual Week-A-Year Tour of the East Coast Greenway kicks off in Philadelphia. Forty-one bicyclists will begin the ...

11 years ago

Joe Guzmán and Kittson O'Neill as two competitive researchers in Lantern Theater Company's production of 'Arcadia.' (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: Nailing ‘Arcadia,’ brilliance, blather and all

It’s hard to tell what’s more impressive about “Arcadia” – Tom Stoppard’s brilliant boil-over of ideas or ...

11 years ago

Schuylkill River Trail ‘boardwalk’ opens [video]

The new extension to the Schuylkill River Trail in Philadelphia opens today. After two years of construction, the Schuylkill Banks ...

11 years ago

 Film and television star Alan Alda is shown speaking during an interview at Stony Brook University, on New York's Long Island, in 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)

Alan Alda blends passions for science and communication

Acclaimed actor, writer, and director Alan Alda continues his lifelong passion to probe the nexus between art and science.  He’ ...

11 years ago

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 Jennie Eisenhower as Morticia, Bill Vargus as the butler, and Jeffrey Coon as Gomez in Media Theatre's production of the musical
Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘The Addams Family’ values

Sometimes you just have to bring in the big guns to wake up the near-dead – and in “The Addams Family,” of course, plenty o ...

11 years ago

 John Oates, musician and songwriter of the Hall and Oates duo, performs at Temple University's Mitten Hall after being inducted into the school's Hall of Fame. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Honored by Temple, John Oates stays true to Philly roots

Temple University’s School of Media and Communication has honored a list of alumni who went on to accomplished careers in journalis ...

11 years ago

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First for Friday, September 26, 2014

Stolen art Three years in the making, a first of its kind art exhibit of valuable antiquities from Italy is set to make its US d ...

Air Date: September 26, 2014

 Michael Learned and Daniel Davis in Delaweare Theatre Company's production of 'Love Letters.' (Photo courtesy of Joe del Tufo)
Shapiro on Theater

Review: Genuine ‘Love Letters’

It’s no wonder that audiences love “Love Letters” – even though it’s a play with basic costumes, little ma ...

11 years ago

 Visitors study the exhibits at the National Liberty Museum's new Welcome Gallery. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Philly museum using glass art to help crystallize concept of liberty

A little-known museum in Philadelphia’s Old City is getting a facelift — both in its galleries and its mission. The Na ...

11 years ago

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 The video installation Easternsports by Alex Da Corte and Jayson Musson plays on four big screens at the Institute for Contemporary Art. (WHYY)

With cues from ‘Our Town,’ Philly artists branch out to collaborate for first time

The new fall season of exhibitions at the the Institute for Contemporary Art, in West Philadelphia, includes a two-hour, non-narrative vi ...

11 years ago

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 This photo, from the production of '100% London,' shows much the same stage arrangement as in '100% Philadelphia.' Participants divide into groups representing the answers to questions. (Photo courtesy of Tim Mitchell)
Shapiro on Theater

Fringe Festival review: ‘100% Philadelphia,’ really

It may not be everyone’s idea of “theater,” but the final Philly Fringe-produced show of the festival is nevertheless a ...

11 years ago

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