Arts & Entertainment
Philly’s gay archival records go outside for ‘And Into The Streets’
An art exhibition in Louis Kahn Park features photos of Philly gay life circa the 1980s and ‘90s.
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Listen 1:25A phone in Philly’s Rail Park lets you speak to the dead
An old-fashioned rotary telephone, wired to nothing, encourages people to speak to their loved ones as a form of grief therapy.
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Listen 1:24A mythology for North Philly appears on construction fencing
The Village of Arts and Humanities developed a tarot deck that will inform the construction of a new art gallery.
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Listen 1:33‘Sublime’ folk sculptures by William Edmondson at the Barnes Foundation
Eight decades after his landmark exhibition at MOMA, William Edmondson’s “Monumental Vision” gets refreshed at the Barnes.
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Listen 1:17New York Mets to play Philadelphia Phillies in London in 2024
The New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies will play a two-game series in London next season as MLB takes another rivalry abroad.
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Peter Brötzmann, the heart — and lungs — of European free jazz, dead at 82
The German saxophonist whose brash, tempestuous outpourings set an imposing standard for free improvisation, and helped define the terms for a postwar European avant-garde.
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Legendary jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown honored at 36th annual Wilmington music festival
The downtown Wilmington festival features multi-day performances of a variety of jazz styles including straight, fusion, R&B-influenced, and Latin jazz.
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Philly artist wins $100K craft prize for her work remembering Black ancestors
Adebunmi Gbadebo makes work from materials sourced directly from her enslaved ancestors.
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Listen 1:54Queen Latifah and Billy Crystal are among the 2023 Kennedy Center honorees
Billy Crystal, Renée Fleming, Barry Gibb, Queen Latifah and Dionne Warwick will be honored for their lifetime artistic achievements as the 46th class of Kennedy Center honoree
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June 22 -26: Hispanic Fiesta in Pa., Battleship Beer Fest in N.J., and the Manayunk Arts Festival are among the weekend’s highlights.
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Listen 5:43Going up the country: Crossing Choir sings the economics of food
The world premiere of Ted Hearne’s “FARMING” mashes up William Penn and Jeff Bezos to trace the history of American food production.
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Listen 2:45Artists used 20,000 square feet of silk and 16,000 feet of electric cables for the creations at Franklin Square for the Chinese Lantern Festival.
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Contemporary art ‘reanimates’ historic sculpture garden on the Schuylkill River
Maren Hassinger’s “Steel Bodies” reanimates a vision of American history at the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial along the Schuylkill River.
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Listen 1:27Alt Philly history: Walking tours to explore the city’s diverse cultural heritage
The Liberty Bell is nice, but Philadelphia has many other stories to tell.
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The $55M croissant: Top contenders to fulfill Rhode Island officials’ outrageous Bok demand
Check out our picks for Philadelphia’s top contenders for multimillion-dollar croissant.
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