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 Congressman John Lewis and essay winner Sam Duffy unveil a new edition to the National Constitution Center's National Tree Exhibit, first African American Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Modern civil rights hero helps salute 19th century political trailblazer at Constitution Center

To mark Constitution Day, the 226th anniversary of the Sept. 17 signing of the United States Constitution, the National Constitution Cent ...

12 years ago

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Philly Fringe reviews: ‘The Ballad of Joe Hill,’ ‘Where (we) Live,’ and ‘The Object Lesson’

The Ballad of Joe Hill. You may have dreamt you saw Joe Hill last night, just like the ballad says – but you didn̵ ...

12 years ago

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First for Friday, September 13, 2013

Sea level rise awareness You’ve heard us talk a lot on this broadcast about sea level change. There are experts in ...

Air Date: September 13, 2013

 The ensemble of
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Review: Nailing it ‘In the Heights’

The high-voltage production of the musical “In the Heights,” opening Walnut Street Theatre’s 205th season, is a supersonic trick: I ...

12 years ago

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 Thaddeus Squire is founder and managing director of CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia. (Image courtesy of CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia)

Serving quietly as the ‘plumbing and wiring’ behind Philly’s arts activity

The Fringe Festival is just one of a myriad of arts organizations that call Philadelphia home. But for these organizations to survive and ...

12 years ago

 Brian Sanders' choreography is known for its raw athletics, daring acrobatics, and sexuality.

Fringe favorite Brian Sanders offers introspective new dance work

As Philadelphia embarks on the second week of the 17th annual Fringe Festival, this weekend features performances of a perennial Fringe f ...

12 years ago

 The partial skull of a soldier who was shot through his eyes causing total blindness with chloroform bottles and other soothing medicines at the Mütter Museum. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)

Philly’s Mutter Museum sharpens focus on the Civil War’s slain and wounded

“Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background of countless minor scenes and interiors,” w ...

12 years ago

 (Image courtesy of David Livewell)

Philadelphia native’s poetry explores the grit of Kensington past and present

Poet David Livewell spent his childhood in Lower Kensington. He’s the 2012 winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry for “Sha ...

12 years ago

 The dancers of Brian Sanders' troupe, JUNK, performing
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Philly Fringe reviews: ‘Life and Times’ and ‘Hush Now Sweet High Heels and Oak’

Life and Times. The folks at the Nature Theater of Oklahoma asked a woman they knew to tell them her life’s story ...

12 years ago

 Two audience members listen on headphones as they participate in
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Philly Fringe review: ‘The Quiet Volume’

I came into the Free Library’s Central Branch only 45 minutes after putting down my Nook, on which I’d been reading a detecti ...

12 years ago

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 Hillary Clinton speaks at the 2013 Liberty Medal Ceremony at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Hillary Clinton receives Liberty Medal

Hillary Clinton received the Liberty Award in Philadelphia on Tuesday night at a ceremony on the lawn of the National Constitution Center ...

12 years ago

 In Tribe of Fools'
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Philly Fringe review: ‘Antihero’

Here’s what you get when you mix over-hyped masculinity, comic book heroes and the Philadelphia Parking Authority: the sock-’ ...

12 years ago

Philly publisher nurtures new means of connecting writers, readers

A small publishing company in Philadelphia is looking at farmers as a business model. Similar to “community supported agricu ...

12 years ago

 Ethan Lipkin (left) and David Stanger in the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium's production of
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Philly Fringe reviews: Franz Kafka’s ‘The Castle’ and ‘Saint Joan, Betrayed’

FRANZ KAFKA’S “THE CASTLE.” Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel, which was completed by his editor an ...

12 years ago

 (Image courtesy of Egopo.org)
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Philly Fringe review: ‘A Doll’s House’

Lots of girls hold a doll in each hand and make up stories, but only Mackenzie Maula holds her dolls while reciting a version of Henrik I ...

12 years ago

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