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.
More from the Contributor
Joe Tiberino, patriarch of artistic Philadelphia family, dies at 77
8 years ago
ListenExperiencing Philly Flower Show through scent, touch, careful description
8 years ago
ListenModel trains wend through scenic national parks at Philly Flower Show [video]
8 years ago
National preservation groups enlist in fight over Princeton Battlefield
8 years ago
ListenNeither cancer nor paralysis will keep Gooch from making music
8 years ago
Listen‘Fabulous Philadelphians’ plan concert tour including Mongolia
8 years ago
Philly museum offers artists in its collection lifetime membership, cuts rates for others
8 years ago
After 56 years, Society Hill Playhouse approaches final curtain call
8 years ago
ListenHopper painting among priceless gift of 50 works to Philly Museum of Art
8 years ago
Design technique applied to social problems
8 years ago
ListenPlay written for Philly butcher shop a lesson in Mexican-American history
8 years ago
Philadelphia Art Museum exhibit snaps, crackles and pops with energetic color [photos]
8 years ago
Listen