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
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
Carol Burnett brings her Q&A format show to Philadelphia
When comedy legend Carol Burnett, 83, takes the stage of the Kimmel Center on April 11, it will be a throwback to The Carol Burnett Show ...
9 years ago
New Jersey demolishes Revolution-era home some say was ‘historic’
Early Friday morning, the New Jersey Department of Transportation demolished a house in Bellmawr dating back to the Revolutionary War. ...
9 years ago
Listen
National Constitution Center brings back its Prohibition exhibit
One more for the road. The National Constitution Center is re-staging its exhibition, “American Spirits: the Rise and Fall o ...
9 years ago
Puerto Rican superhero comic book launches national tour in Philadelphia
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s La Bori ...
9 years ago
Andrew Wyeth’s ‘Christina’s World’ painting inspires new novel
WHYY’s Arts and Culture reporter, Peter Crimmins, spoke with Christina Baker Kline about the book, “A Piece of the World ...
9 years ago
Listen
Chinese Lantern Festival returning to Philadelphia with new exhibits
The Chinese Lantern Festival will return to Philadelphia this summer. For the second year, the nighttime display of giant, ornate ...
9 years ago
Philadelphia’s bug house adds hermetically-sealed butterfly pavillion
A bug museum in Philadelphia’s Holmesburg neighborhood has expanded its footprint to include one of the largest butterfly pavilions ...
9 years ago
Opera Philadelphia prepares binge-worthy moveable feast for fall
Opera Philadelphia will kick off its 2017-2018 season in the fall with a 12-day festival of mostly new opera — six productions in six v ...
9 years ago