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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Mural Arts paid homeless artists to paint 200 columns underneath Broad Street
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Sun Ra kicks off a two-year jam for the love of Philly trees
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Philadelphia Orchestra releases music by historic Black woman composer Florence Price
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Philadelphia Flower Show will stay outside in 2022
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