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The Philadelphia Orchestra

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 ...

12 years ago

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 ...

12 years ago

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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 ...

12 years ago

 Photographer Paul Watson

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 ...

12 years ago

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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

 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)
Shapiro on Theater

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 ...

12 years ago

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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. < ...

12 years ago

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 ...

12 years ago

 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 ...

12 years ago

 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 ...

12 years ago

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 ...

12 years ago

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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