
Arts & Entertainment
Review: A ‘Skin & Bone’ with plenty of meat
Down in the Florida panhandle, where the Old South still reigns, two sisters and their house rapidly decline. The ladies’ knees and ...
11 years ago
A Yiddish take on the national pastime
The new exhibition at the National Museum of American Jewish History, “Chasing Dreams: Baseball and Becoming American,” featu ...
11 years ago
Local inspiration for Mr. Peabody, Sherman and the WABAC machine
Ted Key, a cartoonist from Valley Forge, is the creator of the characters that became “Mr. Peabody and Sherman.” ̶ ...
11 years ago
First for Friday, March 7, 2014
Port Impact As Delaware works to rebuild its blue collar work base, there’s one place that’s been a source of those ...
Air Date: March 7, 2014
Talking Phillies’ spring training with the mayor of Clearwater
For Philadelphians, the Phillies are a part of everyday life. But for the uninitiated, what’s it like when the Phillies come to tow ...
11 years ago
ListenAn unwise choice of pants can really put a damper on a second date
Each month, NewsWorks presents a story from the First Person Arts podcast. This time, Andrew Panebianco tells the story of ...
11 years ago
ListenReview: The daffy ‘Mystery of Irma Vep’
Never mind its little quotes from plays by Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and Henrik Ibsen, “The Mystery of Irma Vep” is all fo ...
11 years ago
Arrangements in living color spring from frame to Philly Flower Show
In spite of the snow, the Philadelphia Flower Show continues. As the world’s largest indoor flower show, it can pretend winter does ...
11 years ago
How others’ stories change our own
Whether we know it or not, hearing someone else’s story changes us. And telling our own story does even more. But the two together ...
Air Date: March 3, 2014
ListenReview: The many games of ‘Circle Mirror Transformation’
In Annie Baker’s play “Circle Mirror Transformation,” the games we play become one with the lives we lead. The play, ge ...
12 years ago
Regal treasures of Korea arrayed at Philly Art Museum in first U.S. exhibit
For the last few years, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has been brokering a kind of art swap. Working with museums in Los Angeles and Hou ...
12 years ago
ListenCostumers from ‘Downton Abbey’ take victory lap in Delaware
Season four of “Downton Abbey” ended last week, but the clothes live on in Delaware. The Winterthur historic house and ...
12 years ago
First for Friday, February 28, 2014
The People’s Report As Wilmington’s Mayor continues to look for a police chief and fine tune a crime fighting plan, ...
Air Date: February 28, 2014
Controlled chaos, behind the scenes setting up Philadelphia Flower Show
Despite the recent spate of frigid weather, it’s almost spring. And that means the Philadelphia Flower Show is about to fill the Pe ...
12 years ago
ListenReview: ‘The Suit,’ morality in a time of oppression
Bittersweet and solidly theatrical, British director Peter Brook’s “The Suit” is the first major stagework at the newly ...
12 years ago