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Each program mixes interviews with guest travel experts, your call-ins with questions and comments, and music. We talk about our favorite travels in Europe, as well as travel anywhere in the U.S. and the rest of the world.

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Visual Arts

A sculpture at 13th and Cuthbert streets
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Arts & Entertainment

Soaring above an alley, ContraFuerte surprises and delights

Struggling to keep both themselves and a bridge upright, Miguel Horn’s ContraFuerte is open for your interpretation.

5 years ago

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.

5 years ago

Carli Chesney receives a frog tattoo
Community
Billy Penn

At one of Philly’s oldest tattoo parlors, women are inking the art

Eddie’s in Chinatown has experienced a changing of the guard.

5 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.

5 years ago

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A pool is pictured in the
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Arts & Entertainment

Swimming while Black: A new exhibit explores Black resilience at the pool

An exhibition inside the Fairmount Waterworks’ dilapidated underground pool explores the history of segregated swimming.

5 years ago

Caleb Followill of Kings of Leon performs during KAABOO 2019 at the Del Mar Racetrack and Fairgrounds
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

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.

5 years ago

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The exterior of the Painted Bride building
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Apartments on top, murals on bottom: Philly approves building plan, saves Painted Bride facade

The Zoning Board of Adjustment decision would allow construction of a 70-unit modernist apartment building in exchange for preserving the mural.

5 years ago

An oil painting of what will become the
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Arts & Entertainment

Salsa as self-care? Find joy in free dance lessons and a mural of salseros Saturday

A new mural from artist Andres Giraldo is coming to Kensington. “Salsa Shines Through” celebrates Philly’s salsa community and their resilience during the pandemic.

5 years ago

Camae Ayewa (left) and Rasheedah Phillips (right), the artists of Black Quantum Futurism and makers of the film “Write No History” with their work in Philadelphia’s historic Hatfield House
PlanPhilly
Arts & Entertainment

Philly’s fave Afrofuturists turned a Fairmount mansion into a time-travel portal

The Hatfield House in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park is the site of an Afrofuturist vision of time travel by the art duo Black Quantum Futurism

5 years ago

The city of Camden unveiled an historical, interactive mural at City Hall on August 12, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

A digital mural allows visitors to ‘see, touch, feel’ Camden history, with hope it’ll draw tourists

With a digital mural, Camden wants to draw history buffs for USA’s 250th birthday.

5 years ago

Fever announced on Thursday that Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience is coming to the Tower Theater later this month.FACEBOOK / FEVER
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Van Gogh ‘immersive’ event announces Tower Theater is Philly location, as customers worry about scam

The company producing the show has received hundreds of Better Business Bureau complaints.

5 years ago

James Dupree stands in the doorway of his Queen Village gallery
Arts & Entertainment

After fighting with the city for years to keep his building, this artist just sold it

James Dupree fought against the seizure of his building for two years. Now he has sold it and is leaving the neighborhood.

5 years ago

A series of portraits by John Carlo Dionisio depict Ashani Oblivion, a character conceived by Zay Ali and portrayed by Arien Wilkerson. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

‘Love and Oblivion’: An art exhibit that leans into a life with no future

The exhibition at Slought features sculpture, video, installation, painting, and performance works from several artists speaking to one person’s vision.

5 years ago

A masked student raises his hand in class.
Radio Times
Community

Regional Roundup – 8/2/21

Philadelphia public schools grapple with masks under the threat of the delta variant. And, we talk with the director of an acclaimed film making its US premiere at BlackStar.

Air Date: August 2, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:14
Samantha Rise leads a march demanding arts funding in a giant unicorn puppet
Arts & Entertainment

Illuminate the Arts sends money to 590 Philly artists

The Illuminate the Arts COVID relief fund sends $1,000 to as many artists as possible.

5 years ago

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