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
Taking cues from Mexican artists of ’90s, Moore forum focuses on bolstering artist collectives
In Mexico City, the 1990s were the best of times, and the worst of times. The country was in an economic and political tailspin, w ...
10 years ago
Philadelphia public spaces are canvas for Open Source art exhibit
Open Source, a citywide public art exhibition under way in Philadelphia right now, features ...
10 years ago
‘Cold Mountain’ selected for One Book, One Philadelphia
The bestselling book set during the Civil War, “Cold Mountain” by Charles Frazier, is the selection for the Free Library̵ ...
10 years ago
Princeton historian wins MacArthur grant for study of Jewish life in medieval Cairo
Twenty-four fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation — the “genius” grants — have been announced for 2015. They w ...
10 years ago
Posters for new Fillmore Philadelphia are NOT psychedelic, thank you
The Fillmore Philadelphia — a new music venue owned by Live Nation and named after the famous clubs in San Francisco and New York — w ...
10 years ago
Listen
Woodmere exhibit follows Philly’s black artists through a tumultuous half-century
Hanging on a wall of the first gallery of the Woodmere Museum’s exhibition “We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia 1920s to ...
10 years ago
Mass bike ride through Center City precedes papal appearance [video]
Security measures caused Philadelphia’s Center City to shut down several hours before any papal activity started. Thousands of people t ...
10 years ago
Pope Francis beats Homer Simpson [photos]
A public mural of the pope in Philadelphia has set the world record for the number of participating painters, a record previously set by ...
10 years ago
Clergy devoted to science steadily add to Philly academy
While Pope Francis is in Philadelphia, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will be closed along with most institutions o ...
10 years ago
Philadelphia’s Print Center celebrates a century
The Print Center in Philadelphia has given over half of its second-floor exhibition space on Latimer Street to artist Gabriel Martinez. ...
10 years ago
LOVE sculpture goes bilingual for pope [photos]
Pope Francis is reportedly not comfortable speaking English — at his major public appearances this weekend in Philadelphia he will spea ...
10 years ago
For better, for worse, in papal congestion and in health, couple ready to tie the knot
Francesca Fiore and her fiancé, Matt Kosinsky, were being so good. They started making wedding plans 18 months in advance. Last year, th ...
10 years ago
Listen