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Arts & Entertainment

Sheryl Lee Ralph sings as she accepts the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series for
NPR
TV

Five takeaways from the 2022 Emmy awards

The 2022 Emmys handed out awards to Succession, Squid Game, Abbott Elementary, The White Lotus, Ted Lasso, Lizzo's Here's To The Big Grrrls and others.

3 years ago

Sheryl Lee Ralph accepts the Emmy for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series for
Philadelphia
TV

Sheryl Lee Ralph wins first career Emmy for performance in Abbott Elementary

Sheryl Lee Ralph was so moved by her Emmy win, she had to respond in song.

3 years ago

A building is lit up at night as people walk around.
Higher Education
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

After 50 Brutalist years, the Annenberg Center plans to stretch out, open up

After 50 years, the University of Pennsylvania’s Brutalist-style performing arts center will build a new performance space full of light and air.

3 years ago

Iga Swiatek, of Poland, holds up the championship trophy after defeating Ons Jabeur, of Tunisia, to win the women's singles final of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
National
Sports

Iga Swiatek beats Ons Jabeur for 1st US Open title, 3rd Slam

The world No. 1 cemented her status as a dominant figure in women’s tennis by triumphing at the tournament that is expected to be the last of Serena Williams’ career.

3 years ago

Don Shump poses with his head, neck, and upper torso covered in honey bees at the Philadelphia Honey Festival. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Philadelphia
Sustainability

Photo essay: The ‘Bee Beard’ returns to Philadelphia during the 2022 Honey Festival

Bees swarmed beekeeper Don Shump’s face during a sweet — and scary — demonstration.

3 years ago

File photo: Actor Marsha Hunt arrives at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Luncheon in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Aug. 13, 2013. Hunt, one of the last surviving actors from Hollywood’s so-called Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s who worked with performers ranging from Laurence Olivier to Andy Griffith in a career disrupted for a time by the McCarthy-era blacklist, has died. She was 104.  Hunt died Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022 at her home in Sherman Oaks, Calif. said Roger Memos, the writer-director of the 2015 documentary “Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity.
History
Music
Politics

Marsha Hunt, ’40s star and blacklist victim, dies at 104

Hunt was an established actor and was a rising star in the new medium of television when the work dried up because of allegations about her liberal activism.

3 years ago

Carlos Alcaraz, of Spain (right) hugs Frances Tiafoe, of the United States, after winning their semifinal match of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
National
Sports

Alcaraz stops Tiafoe’s US Open run for 1st Grand Slam final

Alcaraz will face No. 7 Casper Ruud for the championship on Sunday with so much on the line.

3 years ago

Joseph Lazaro Rodriguez crouches beneath his digital projection, ''Chromatherapeutics: Veritas DS,'' on display at the National Liberty Museum. Rodriquez's works complement the museum's exhibit about truth. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Politics
Visual Arts

National Liberty Museum shines a light on truth

In its new civic dialogue exhibition, the museum asked video installation artists for work about the truth and its slippery surface.

3 years ago

A horse makes a plunge into a six-foot pool of water on the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo/ Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
Radio Times
Animals
Books
New Jersey

Bonus Interview: Steel Pier and The Last ‘Diving Horse’

From the Radio Times archive, we visit our interview about Atlantic City's Steel Pier, dangerous animal stunts and the last diving horse in America.

Air Date: September 10, 2022 6:00 am

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File photo: A pitch clock is deployed to restrict pitcher preparation times during a minor league baseball game between the Brooklyn Cyclones and Greensboro Grasshoppers, July 13, 2022, in the Coney Island neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Major League Baseball is set to announce a pitch clock and limits on defensive shifts next season in an effort to shorten games and increase offense. The sport’s 11-man competition committee is set to adopt the rules changes Friday, Sept. 9. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Law
National
Sports

MLB adopts pitch clock, shift limits, bigger bases for 2023

The changes had long been pushed by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred in an effort to combat the increase in dead time and suffocation of offense in the age of analytics.

3 years ago

Nick Stuccio, FringeArts President  and Producing Director. (Jennifer Lynn/WHYY)
Community Events
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Philly’s Fringe Festival touts hundreds of daring, defying, delightful performances

Me and Jesus and Prince and Captain Jean-Luc Picard as performance art can only mean one thing: The Philly Fringe Festival is back for the 2022 edition.

3 years ago

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File photo: Ringo Starr plays as part of a concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of Woodstock in Bethel, N.Y., Aug. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Things To Do
Food & Drink
Movies
Music
Performing Arts
Visual Arts

Fringe Festival, Ringo Starr, Wu-Tang and Nas, Feria del Barrio, and more in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Sept. 8 - Sept. 11: The Fringe Fest begins in Philadelphia, Ringo Starr comes to the Met, The Disco Biscuits are in Delaware, and Wu-Tang and Nas hit the stage in New Jersey.

3 years ago

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Sue Bird reacts after Tuesday's game, the last of her career, at the 2022 WNBA Playoffs semifinals in Seattle, Wash. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
NPR
National
Sports

Basketball icon Sue Bird plays her last game after two legendary decades in the WNBA

She retires as the winningest WNBA player of all time.

3 years ago

Frances Tiafoe reacts after winning a tie breaker against Andrey Rublev, of Russia, during the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open tennis championships on Wednesday in New York. (Seth Wenig/AP)
National
Sports

Tiafoe becomes first American man to reach the U.S. Open semifinals since 2006

The 24-year-old Tiafoe was backed by a boisterous partisan crowd in Arthur Ashe Stadium.

3 years ago

Gianna Yanelli (left), who portrays Adrian in Walnut Street Theatre’s production of ‘’Rocky, the Musical,’’ and Matthew Amira, who portrays Rocky, make cheesesteaks at Pat’s King of Steaks in South Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Rocky the Musical is getting its Philly debut, but first, cheesesteaks

The iconic Philly story premiered on Broadway in 2014 for six months, then all but disappeared. It opens at Walnut Street Theatre in October.

3 years ago

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