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.
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Brandywine Museum displays the ‘rainbow of America’ in children’s books
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Stars cleaning stars on Philly’s Walk of Fame
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Amtrak’s 30th Street Station now glows like the cathedral it wants to be
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Cirque du Soleil makes the North American debut of “Bazzar” in Philly, a city with a strong homegrown circus scene.
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Penn Museum will no longer display exposed human remains
In an update to its Human Remains Policy, the archeology museum will no longer consider exhibiting any exposed human remains.
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