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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.
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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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Arts & Entertainment

 Trent Reznor, lead singer of the band Nine Inch Nails performs at the Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. The more than two-decade-old festival opens Friday in Chicago's lakefront Grant Park. (AP Photo/Scott Eisen)

Nine Inch Nails closes 2nd day of Made in America festival

Nine Inch Nails closed the second night of the “Budweiser Made In America” festival with a set that captured the audience — ...

12 years ago

 The cast of Pig Iron Theater Company's
Shapiro on Theater

Philly’s Fringe festival begins to expand, plus some picks

This is the year of the expanded Fringe. The Philly Fringe festival – now officially called FringeArts – has not just a new name, but ...

12 years ago

 With artBOX, a new attraction at Adventure Pier in Wildwood, pier owner Jack Morey is trying to appeal to a wider audience. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

Selling art from shipping containers on Wildwood’s Adventure Pier

“In general, all entertainment is what you can’t get at home. That’s almost a definition,” said Jack Morey, a par ...

12 years ago

First

First for Friday, August 30, 2013

Wilmington Violence Thinking outside the box to get to the heart of Wilmington’s violence issue, that’s what ...

Air Date: August 30, 2013

 An artist's rendering of the new FringeArts building, the site of a former pumping station, at the corner of Race Street and Columbus Boulevard in Philadelphia. (Image courtesy of FringeArts)

Shapiro and Crimmins on 2013 Fringe Festival’s Philly neighborhood focus

The 17th annual Fringe Festival begins next week in Philadelphia, featuring 150 theatrical productions in 2 1/2 weeks. We turn to cr ...

12 years ago

 he Prince Music Theater is located at 1412 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia. (Charlie Kaier/for NewsWorks)

Taking on a new role, the theater temporarily known as Prince reopens

The Prince Music Theater will reopen Friday for the first time since emerging from bankruptc ...

12 years ago

 Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field is shown during a 2011 NFL football game between the Eagles and the Arizona Cardinals. (AP Photo/Michael Perez, file)

$765 million settlement in NFL concussion lawsuits

The NFL has reached a settlement with thousands of former players, who accused the league of ignoring evidence about the dangers of head ...

12 years ago

New water slide at Dorney Park to open in 2014

Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom is ...

12 years ago

 Academy Award-winning cinematographer Floyd Crosby, father of musician David Crosby, shows the expedition’s experimental sound/film camera to the Bororo while filming

‘Documentary’ that broke sound barrier plays a part in Penn’s ‘Year of Sound’

As the University of Pennsylvania begins its new academic year, students are being encouraged to participate in the “Year of Sound. ...

12 years ago

 (Frank Micelotta/Invision for Parkwood Entertainment/AP Photo)

Beyonce, Nine Inch Nails headline Made in America concerts in Philly

The city of Philadelphia has released a few more details about the Made in America Festiv ...

12 years ago

First

First for Friday, August 23, 2013

No-kill Delaware Delaware is in the process of setting up a state-funded Office of Animal Welfare. Some believe this is t ...

Air Date: August 23, 2013

 (Photo from Garden State Film Festival website)

Garden State Film Festival rolling to Atlantic City

Atlantic City has attracted a new film festival to its Boardwalk. The Garden State Film Festival, which had been in Asbury Park fo ...

12 years ago

 Marsha Mason (left), David Garrison and Marilu Henner in
Shapiro on Theater

Review: The ‘Allergist’s Wife’ breathes freely

Boyd Gaines is an actor in films, but with four Tonys—his most recent for his role in the revival of “Gypsy”—his career h ...

12 years ago

Much of the museum focuses on interactive touch screen lessons and animations.

No more Slimline phones at reinvented Ben Franklin Museum

There are interactive, talking touch screens, collage animation videos, and first-person voice-overs. There is the sound of type being se ...

12 years ago

 Spreckels' Sugar Refinery on the Delaware River was one of several large refineries that operated in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

Once upon a time, the world was sweet on Philly’s sugar industry

To pedestrians and motorists crossing the Ben Franklin Bridge, the sign is unmistakable: “WILBUR’S” painted in ghostly ...

12 years ago

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