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Violinist Randall Mitsuo Goosby is pictured playing
Arts & Entertainment

Pew Center grants $10.2 million for digital and diversity efforts

The annual Pew grants will distribute money toward arts institutions’ digital and diversity efforts.

4 years ago

Dancers rehearse
Arts & Entertainment

Fringe Festival turns 25, spawns its own mini-festival

Cannonball is a new artist-produced festival-within-the-festival, a critical sign of growth for the Philly Fringe.

4 years ago

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State School District Superintendent Katrina McCombs and Camden Mayor Vic Carstarphen hold the scissors to cut the ribbon on the new Camden High School. Both McCombs and Carstarphen are alumni of the school. (P. Kenneth Burns/WHYY)
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Regional Roundup – 9/6/21

Camden schools superintendent talks about the significance of a new high school campus, and we revisit Cam Anthony & Ray Didinger.

Air Date: September 6, 2021 10:00 am

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22nd Street under the JFK Boulevard is swamped as the Schuylkill River rises
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Made in America’s show will go on this weekend, despite severe flooding

The rain-heavy remnants of Hurricane Ida caused severe flooding of the nearby Schuylkill River, but will not affect the two-day music festival.

4 years ago

Caleb Followill of Kings of Leon performs during KAABOO 2019 at the Del Mar Racetrack and Fairgrounds
Things To Do
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Philly Naked Bike Ride, Kings of Leon, tango at the forefront and more in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Aug. 26 - Aug. 29: Things to do in Philadelphia, Del., and N.J.

4 years ago

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The Kimmel Center.
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Kimmel Center rolls out new vaccine mandate ahead of September reopening

The Kimmel Center also confirmed it will enforce Philadelphia’s mask mandate throughout its locations.

4 years ago

Roderick Phifer, rehearsal director for the Chocolate Ballerina Company, leads a group of young dancers through an audition for a winter production of the
Arts & Entertainment

An all-Black ‘Nutcracker’ is coming to Philly with hopes to make the ballet more accessible

Despite some recent changes, ballet schools and productions remain homogenous and expensive. The Chocolate Ballerina Company in Philly is trying to change that.

4 years ago

Philadelphia Orchestra
Arts & Entertainment

Carnegie Hall returns to in-person concerts with a lot of help from the Philadelphia Orchestra

In its return to a full season of in-person performances, Carnegie Hall has programmed the Philadelphia Orchestra for an unprecedented eight concerts.

4 years ago

The Shakespeare in Clark Park production of
Arts & Entertainment

Kensington neighbors make Shakespeare their own

A company of residents from the area around Harrowgate Park mined Shakespeare’s “Pericles” to tell the story of their neighborhood.

4 years ago

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Philadelphia Art Museum
Arts & Entertainment

Here’s how Philly’s major arts venues are dealing with latest COVID restrictions

Here’s how museum and performance institutions have responded to Mayor Kenney’s COVID restrictions.

4 years ago

Actor May Boley in 'Fighting Caravans,' 1931 (WIKIMEDIA COMMONS)
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Billy Penn

That time a match nearly torched a newlywed on the Atlantic City boardwalk

A Broadway actor who also showed up in Hollywood movies, she was saved by a comedian known as “the jolliest man in America.”

4 years ago

Cornell Wood stands inside the Academy of Music
Arts & Entertainment

‘It was a family job’: After 48 years, a friendly face at the Academy of Music retires

For 48 years, Cornell Wood ushered generations of Philadelphians into the arts.

4 years ago

The crowd catches Wes Borland's guitar during Lollapalooza 2021 at Grant Park on July 31, 2021 in Chicago, Ill. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images)
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Arts & Entertainment

So much for ‘hot vaxx summer.’ Delta puts a damper on festivals and concerts

The recent COVID surges around the country are putting a damper on the joys of finally experiencing live music again even as major festivals and concerts return.

4 years ago

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner was the local guest who played “Not My Job” at the live taping of Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me! at the Mann Center on August 5, 2021. The show was the first audience-attended taping since the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

‘Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me’ makes its return to live audiences in Philly

Host Peter Sagal brought `Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me’ back to in-person performance at the Mann Center.

4 years ago

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Maya Belardo performs at a Delaware jazz festival
Arts & Entertainment

After online detour last year, live jazz returns to Wilmington for annual downtown festival

The annual Wilmington festival honoring jazz great Clifford Brown is back in person after taking a virtual detour last year.

4 years ago

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