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
Grave gardeners bring Victorian blooms to West Philly’s Woodlands
The forecast for this weekend will be great for gardening: warm, and maybe a little wet. Volunteers will be out in force at West P ...
9 years ago
Listen
‘Hamilton’ star training CAPA students for museum grand opening
Next month, the new Museum of the American Revolution will open in Philadelphia, with the help of Joe Biden, Cokie Roberts, and “Ha ...
9 years ago
Listen
Pioneer of Philadelphia theater makes playwriting debut
A longtime trailblazer of Philadelphia theater has written her first play. Blanka Zizka co-founded the Wilma Theater more than 30 ...
9 years ago
Pioneer of performance-poetry Marty Watt to return to the stage in Philadelphia
On Sunday afternoon, a pioneer of performance poetry will return to Philadelphia for a rare appearance. Marty Watt of Philadelphia ...
9 years ago
Listen
This is how NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’ might look as a dance
This weekend, a Philadelphia performance troupe will dance to NPR. A dancers will perform a choreographed work to a soundtrack of ...
9 years ago
Listen
Fabric museum exhibit asks the big question: Who determines when something is art?
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has become the subject of a new artwork at another museum. The Fabric Workshop and Museum commissio ...
9 years ago
Listen
National Museum of American Jewish History exhibit links 1917 to today’s debate on immigration
The debates America is having right now about President Trump’s proposed immigration ban can be traced back at least 100 years, accordi ...
9 years ago
Listen
Nor’easter cuts into the Philadelphia Flower Show attendance
It seems like every year the Philadelphia Flower Show suffers some kind of weather event. But the show goes on, even as the city’s ...
9 years ago
Listen
Film director Jonathan Demme to sell off part of his Haitian art collection
The art collection of film director Jonathan Demme is now on display at a Philadelphia auction house. It will be sold off this weekend.&n ...
9 years ago
Listen
The Philadelphia Flower Show brings the land of tulips here
On Thursday, inside the Pennsylvania Convention Center, landscape architects and floral designers were putting final touches on their int ...
9 years ago
Listen
Advocacy group says pre-K art classes may improve learning
An arts advocacy organization in Philadelphia has issued the first of a series of reports outlining how, exactly, the arts benefit the ci ...
9 years ago
‘Hunger doesn’t look the way you think it looks’
A mobile exhibition about the faces of hunger in America has rolled into the Philadelphia area. The multimedia gallery of document ...
9 years ago