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Arts & Entertainment

From Snacks to a FEAST: a 12-hour cabaret marathon is coming to your screen

FEAST brings dozens of performers from around the world into a 12-hour online event.

3 months ago

A troll by artist Kid Hazo under a footbridge at Philadelphia’s Navy Yard. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Street artists from Spain to India featured in Navy Yard’s new outdoor art exhibition

For the third year, the Navy Yard uses public art installations to entice visitors to the bottom of Broad Street.

4 months ago

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Filmmaker Ken Burns (WHYY, file)
Education

Ken Burns joins Constitution Center for online education

The PBS documentary filmmaker will join an online home-school series to discuss Constitutional history.

10 months ago

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Wilma Theater's four co-artistic directors pose in the middle of South Broad Street, across from the theater. From left: James Ijames, Blanka Zizka, Yury Urnov and Morgan Green. (Photo courtesy of Wide Eyed Studio)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

One Wilma Theater artistic director becomes four, in a new leadership model

Each new addition will spend a season as lead artistic director, picking shows, casts and design teams with advice from the others, including Blanka Zizka.

11 months ago

DRWC digital content creator Darnell Schoolfield in front of the Ben Franklin Bridge. (Courtesy of DRWC)
Community
Billy Penn

The unusual redemption story of the man who gives voice to Philly’s waterfront

How a formerly incarcerated tough guy used writing to find his way.

12 months ago

Martin Tower, the former headquarters of Bethlehem Steel, is shown days before a planned implosion. (Matt Smith for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Implosion of former Bethlehem Steel HQ highlights changing face of the Lehigh Valley

Bethlehem Steel built a skyscraper in the 1970s, just ahead of the industry's collapse. The tower sat mostly vacant for a decade, but the city found other ways to revitalize.

2 years ago

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(Photo credit, Christy Zuccarini)
Radio Times
Community

Chris Wilson’s journey from prison to purpose

Chris Wilson talks about his memoir "Master Plan: My Journey from Prison to Purpose."

Air Date: February 7, 2019 10:00 am

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Wharton-Wesley United Methodist Church in Cobbs Creek reimagined a parking lot as green space (Wharton-Wesley United Methodist Church/Community Design Collaborative)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Sacred spaces reimagined with preservation, Philly communities in mind

Food was a common thread connecting all three projects.

2 years ago

A new Federal Donuts recently opened on South Street at Sixth Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Is South Street’s retail apocalypse coming to an end?

“We think we’ve hit the bottom, and that’s why we’re jumping in.”

2 years ago

Plans for a new waterfront park over I-95 at Penn's Landing (Courtesy of  Hargreaves Associates & redsquare)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Knight Foundation gives $4M for citywide conversation about park over I-95

A newly funded citywide public engagement campaign will be designed to give all Philadelphians a chance to shape plans for a new waterfront park over I-95 at Penn's Landing.

2 years ago

Oran Z. Belgrave, founder of the now defunct Oran Z's Black Facts & Wax Museum in Los Angeles, stands in front of the shipping containers that have held most of the contents of his independent African-American history museum since it closed in 2011.
(Samir S. Patel/Atlas Obscura)
NPR
Lifestyle

Through a looking glass of black Americana: the long, strange journey of Oran Z

In the western tip of the Mojave Desert, a couple of hours north of Los Angeles, a lone McMansion-style villa sits on 10 acres surrounded by a fence.

2 years ago

Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

La Borinqueña: a superhero for Puerto Rico

Guests: Danica Coto, Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez La Borinqueña is an Afro-Latina Puerto Rican comic book superhero ...

Air Date: August 2, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:56
Pedestrians walk toward the downtown visitors center and Central Market in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Marketplace
Keystone Crossroads
Community

How residents crossed party lines to revitalize this Pennsylvania city

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman joined us to talk about how civic coalitions are helping to revitalize old towns.

3 years ago

After more than a decade spent in a state financial oversight program, Pittsburgh regained its fiscal independence last month. More than a dozen Pennsylvania cities remain in the program.
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

In leaving state oversight, Pittsburgh says it’s prepared for the risk

On a Monday morning last month people packed the Pittsburgh mayor’s conference room to witness the city’s successful transition to fi ...

3 years ago

Kayakers paddle past downtown Pittsburgh on the Allegheny River in this September 4, 2015 photo. (AP File Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Pittsburgh sheds distressed city status as fiscal health improves

On Monday, Pittsburgh became the second city to exit Act 47, the state’s oversight program for financia ...

3 years ago

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