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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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Stevie Wonder performs
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Stevie Wonder, Chinatown Night Market and the Scrapple and Apple Fest in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

Oct. 10–13: OURfest in Philly, Atlantic City Comedy Festival in New Jersey and Diamond State Black Film Festival in Delaware are among the weekend’s highlights.

1 year ago

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Carlos Estévez walks off the field and looks up
Philadelphia
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Phillies out of the playoffs after 1-4 loss to Mets in NLDS Game 4

It was a bitter exit for the NL East champion Phillies, who won 95 games and finished six ahead of the wild-card Mets during the regular season.

1 year ago

David McMahon and Sarah Burns speak
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WHYY Media Lab students hear advice from filmmakers Sarah Burns and David McMahon ahead of documentary premiere

The two-part, four-hour documentary on Leonardo da Vinci will air on WHYY Channel 12 on Nov. 18 and 19 at 8 p.m.

1 year ago

Aaron Nola being taken off the mound
Philadelphia
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Phillies lose to Mets 2-7, down 1-2 in NLDS

Game 4 is Wednesday at Citi Field, with All-Star Ranger Suárez scheduled to start for Philadelphia against fellow lefty José Quintana.

1 year ago

Cissy Houston
Music
New Jersey

Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston’s mother and a Grammy-winning singer, dies at 91

Cissy Houston died Monday morning in her New Jersey home while under hospice care for Alzheimer’s disease, according to her daughter-in-law Pat Houston.

1 year ago

Burned out cars from the Nova Music Festival in Israel that was attacked last year
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The aftermath of the Israeli music festival attacked on Oct. 7 to be recreated at the Weitzman museum

“The Moment the Music Stood Still” is a traveling exhibition of artifacts collected from the destroyed Nova Music Festival.

1 year ago

Actors dance onstage
Comedy
Elections
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

How to stop worrying and love the election cycle: ‘This Is the Week That Is’ brings comedy to the presidential race

“This Is the Week That Is,” the annual spoof of current events, takes aim at the presidential election.

1 year ago

Listen 1:17
Simone Biles smiles and holds a medal
Philadelphia
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Simone Biles excites young Philly gymnasts as she heads to Wells Fargo Center for Gold Over America Tour

Gymnastics gym Philly inMovement is taking 13 athletes to the Gold Over America Tour. Simone Biles and other gymnasts will perform and celebrate Team USA’s Olympic victories.

1 year ago

Lightbox Chief Curator Jesse Pires stands in a movie theater
Movies
Philadelphia

Lightbox Film Center finds a new home at the Bok Building

Cast adrift by the closing of the University of the Arts in June, the art film presenter will start weekly screenings in South Philadelphia.

1 year ago

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United States' Simone Biles competes on the beam during the apparatus finals at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023.
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Gold Over America, GOAToberfest, Apple Butter Frolic and more in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

Oct. 3–6: Revolutionary Germantown Festival in Philly, Collingswood Book Festival in New Jersey and Marquis de Lafayette in Delaware are among the weekend’s highlights.

1 year ago

Listen 5:09
Table Sessions
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

West Philadelphia arts organization Intercultural Journeys rebrands as Journey Arts

1 year ago

Adam Weiner of Low Cut Connie in Asbury Park, NJ. (Photo by Michael Zorn/Invision/AP)
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Studio 2 Extra: Low Cut Connie’s Adam Weiner

In this Studio 2 extra, Low Cut Connie front man Adam Weiner talks about his new film, Art Dealers, which follows the Philly-based cult favorite band beyond their music.

Air Date: October 1, 2024 5:00 pm

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fake lunch trays with good on display
Food & Drink
History
K-12
Philadelphia

Food fight: The history of the school lunch at Philly’s Science History Institute

Philadelphia pioneered the school lunch 130 years ago.

1 year ago

Listen 1:46
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

It’s Election Season, and local theaters are making points — with lots of laughs

1 year ago

Kris Kristofferson
Movies
Music

Kris Kristofferson, singer-songwriter and actor, dies at 88

He wrote such country and rock ‘n’ roll standards as “Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down,” “Help Me Make it Through the Night,” "For the Good Times" and "Me and Bobby McGee."

1 year ago

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