
WHYY’s arts and culture reporter Peter Crimmins first became interested in radio in the fourth grade, when he smuggled a contraband crystal-diode radio into the Boy Scout summer camp. Subsequent radio projects were more successful.
Crimmins has been reporting on arts and culture for WHYY News since 2010, as well as filing award-winning radio and print stories locally and nationally. He started his career in the San Francisco Bay Area, cutting his teeth at community station KALX and producing syndicated radio programming for Ben Manilla Productions. He lives in Fishtown with his wife and two dogs.
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Last hurrah for Eastern State Penitentiary’s Bastille Day blowout
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Listen 1:35‘Tape Riot’: A theater piece that plays off the city’s built environment
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Listen 2:44Who shepherds whom? ‘Doggie Hamlet’ in Fairmount Park
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Talk of the town: Right after graduation, Philly artist lands New Yorker cover
Just weeks after graduating from UArts, Loveis Wise lands the cover of the New Yorker magazine.
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The Franklin Institute has designed a video game with Ben Franklin in a Mario Bros. 8-bit world.
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PAFA acquires painting from Hudson River School that couldn’t sell at auction
PAFA acquires major Hudson River School painting from Berkshire Museum in Massachusetts.
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Former Underground Railroad stop in Montco at center of preservation fight
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Robert Indiana’s complicated relationship with LOVE
The 89-year-old artist died at his home in Maine. In Philadelphia, his LOVE lives on.
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