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 Alex Stanku manages the auctions at Material Culture in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia. (Shai Ben-Yaacov/WHYY)

Busy week for a Philadelphia auction floor manager

Alex Stanku manages the auctions at Material Culture in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadel ...

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 Matthew Tarekegan, a fifth grader at St. Francis de Salles, rehearses with the Play On, Philly! orchestra. The students are learning a remix of West Side Story Mambo composed by high school students. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

Philly high school students re-imagine ‘West Side Story’ ‘Mambo’ using mobile app

The elementary school musicians at Saint Francis DeSales in West Philadelphia get excited when they get to perform “Mambo” fr ...

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 Kirk Wendell Brown (left) and Peter DeLaurier in Lantern Theater Company's production of 'The Train Driver'  (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
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Review: ‘The Train Driver’ and his derailment

It’s an all-too-common story around the world: a train comes down the tracks, a despondent person runs in its way. It’ ...

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 Percussionist Milford Graves will play at Bartram's Garden.(Image courtesy of Ars Nova Workshop)

Jazz musicians take in sites of the city as inspiration for Philly festival

Some giants from the world of experimental jazz are coming to play the city of Philadelphia — literally. For the next month, ...

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 A scene from Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre's Romeo and Juliet.

Love’s labor rewarded as winning poems celebrate Bard’s birth

Today, William Shakespeare would have been 450 years old. Sort of. The actual date of Shakespeare’s birth is not known for c ...

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 Charlie DelMarcelle and Liz Filios in Inis Nua Theatre Company's production of 'Midsummer [a play with songs]' (Photo courtesy of Katie Reing)
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Review: A smoldering ‘Midsummer’ love

The endearing little show called “Midsummer,” in a smartly done production by Inis Nua Theatre Company, is told much like a s ...

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First for Friday, April 18, 2014

Landscape of the Mind We start our Experience tour with George Martz. He spent 20 years as an art teacher at the Tower H ...

Air Date: April 18, 2014

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Dan Fagin, 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winner, sees Toms River story as cautionary tale

Environmental journalist Dan Fagin’s 2013 book “ ...

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 Parker Kitterman is the organist and director of music at Christ Church in Philadelphia's Old City neighborhood. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Holy Week, contemplative for some, marks busiest time for Christ Church organist

With this year’s overlapping of Passover and Holy Week, many area residents are sharing a period of contemplation and somber reflec ...

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Sneak peek: New stuff, locally grown

Next season’s production lineups are floating in like spring breezes. The area’s 50-plus professional stage companies – the ...

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 12 outstanding ovens that prove Philly knows pizza (Photos by Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)

12 outstanding ovens that prove Philly knows pizza [photos]

Over the past few years there’s been a full-on renaissance when it comes to Philadelphia’s pizza scene. We did some digg ...

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Jazz pops up at Reading Terminal Market

During the Wednesday lunch rush at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, shoppers were surprised by a sudden onslaught of saxophon ...

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 Native American poet and activist Suzan Shown Harjo collaborated on the curation of Native American Voices at Penn Museum. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

Museum of antiquity emphasizes current history of Native Americans [photos]

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the words Native American? Is it old movies? Tonto? Protests? Drumming ...

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 Jackson Durham (left) and Van Tingley of Metal Eyes play in a gallery at the Institute of Contemporary Art as part of a conceptual art installation by New York-based Mary Ellen Carroll. The duo stands atop bales of scrap metal that were compressed into 1-ton blocks at Revolution Recovery (in Tacony) to be sold on the scrap metal market.(Peter Crimmins/WHYY)

Scraps of metal, sounds of Metal Eyes combine in ‘waste music’ installation

At a current intallation at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, two guys will be standing on these bales of shredded metal ...

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 Diver, Unnatural History, 2014, will be on display from April 19 - August 2 at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. (Photography by Lori Nix)

Academy of Natural Sciences puts itself on exhibit through dioramas

This weekend, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will open an exhibition of dioramas, revealing how dioramas are made. ...

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