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
Kabul-Philly connection helps Afghan teen trumpet player win spot at Interlochen
The Philadelphia Orchestra’s principle trumpet player has been mentoring a teenager in war-torn Afghanistan over the Internet. Now ...
9 years ago
Listen
History Truck is mapping Chinatown memories
A Philadelphia history project is at work collecting material from residents of Chinatown for an exhibit about that neighborhood’s ...
9 years ago
Philadelphia Horticultural Society picks new leader without a green thumb
On the eve of the its annual Flower Show, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society has chosen its new president, Matt Rader. The PHS ...
9 years ago
Listen
With injured Philly actor once again treading the boards, the show goes on
Last spring, just after winning his one of the lead roles in the Walnut Street Theatre’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s ...
9 years ago
Listen
Mummers hope getting more diverse will help boost crowds and ranks
Los Bomberos de Calle, a traditional Puerto Rican performance troop based in North Philadelphia, is gathering 25 traditional folk masks f ...
9 years ago
Listen
Abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly, creator of sculpture outside Barnes, dies at 92
One of America’s most prominent abstract artists, Ellsworth Kelly, died Sunday at his home in upstate New York. He was 92. K ...
9 years ago
Rare night tour of Fairmount Park mansions hosted by Scrooge, Cratchit and Fezziwig
Three historic houses in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park are part of a Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol tour. Characters from t ...
9 years ago
Listen
Celebrating ‘Christmas on the Block’
“Christmas on the Block,” the second-most beloved Christmas song to come out of Philadelphia, has been around for more than t ...
9 years ago
Listen
Royal visit, Philly accent, Mummers infuse ‘Three Maries’ [photos]
A musical about the Mummers, the Philly accent, and the Queen of Romania: Why did it take so long? Longtime theater composer Micha ...
9 years ago
Listen
Influential drummer, filmmaker George Manney leaves trove of Philly rock archives
A longtime member of Philadelphia rock music scene has died. But he leaves an impressive legacy. George Manney, a drummer-turned-d ...
9 years ago
Still life: Art in the service of science
In the early part of the American nation, science and art were brothers born to the mother of necessity. Charles Wilson Peale was ...
9 years ago
Listen
Opera Philadelphia’s production of ‘Yardbird’ moves on to Harlem’s Apollo
For the first time ever, the Apollo Theater in Harlem will be hosting opera, to be produced ...
9 years ago