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The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds perform during an air show at Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst in New Jersey. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Air show to draw thousands to Dover Air Force Base

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will headline two days of aerial entertainment celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Air Force. ...

8 years ago

Arts & Entertainment

Princeton opens exhibit of Howard Russell Butler’s solar eclipse paintings

Still trying to find the right No. 14 arc welder glasses for viewing the first solar eclipse of the century, or figuring out how you̵ ...

8 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Andrew Wyeth’s birth

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Andrew Wyeth's birth. The Brandywine River Museum of Art celebrates his life through an exhibit of his best work.

8 years ago

James Merle Thomas, executive director of Vox Populi artists collective, has wrangled a gallery space at 990 Spring Garden. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

With artists collective in disarray after fire, Vox building still unites them

On the First Friday of the month, thousands of art lovers wander Philadelphia galleries that stay open late. A cluster of art coll ...

8 years ago

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Penn's Landing: October 2, 2002 7:10 a.m. - Sunrise 6:57 a.m. (Jonathan Wilson / Philadelphia Inquirer)
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Lifestyle

Photographer rises with the sun to capture Philly at first light [photos]

Early morning, an hour before and after sunrise, provides wonderful lighting opportunities. Sometimes it’s ethereal, sometimes myst ...

8 years ago

Janis Chakars (NewsWorks file photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Were these cartoons too funny for The New Yorker magazine?

Since its inception in 1925, the New Yorker has published some 70,000 cartoons featuring the likes of Charles Addams, George Booth, Saul ...

8 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Delaware artist’s camera is a doorway to ‘little worlds’ [video]

Alida Fish was given a camera as a child to capture her world. Now through her art, she creates worlds of her own.

8 years ago

Speak Easy
Arts & Entertainment

Michael Nichols’ virtual safari remembers the magic of photography

Photographs used to be magic: prestidigitation performed by alchemists armed with white umbrellas, light meters, lenses, and endless roll ...

8 years ago

People express their pride by holding banners at Art All Night in Trenton. (Alan Tu/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

2017 Art All Night – Trenton [photos]

One of Trenton’s secrets is that it’s a fun place to see art. Probably the best example is its annual 24-hour festival ...

8 years ago

A hot coil in Matt Cline's lab. (Liz Reid/for WHYY)
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Science

Fuel, oxygen, and ignition: the science of fireworks

A childhood pyromaniac grows up, becomes a chemist and makes sparks fly in the lab. Matt Cline, 43, is a chemical engineering lab ...

8 years ago

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Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) finds himself stranded and alone on Mars
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Science

Science can make blockbuster movies better

Hollywood directors have a direct line to consulting scientists. Let’s say you’re a filmmaker. You want to put a littl ...

8 years ago

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 The Free Library of Philadelphia. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
Speak Easy
Arts & Entertainment

Calling all artists … or maybe not

When the Free Library put out a call for Philadelphia artists who are "seeking a wider audience for their work and would like to get paid for it," I was hopeful.

8 years ago

Olivia Losee-Unger contemplates the layout of her artwork.   (Jonathan Wilson for Newsworks)
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Education

Graduating PAFA students prep for the big show

The Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts was the scene of intense activity in early May as students fi ...

8 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

For the first time in 75 years, Howard Pyle’s first murals are together again at the Delaware Art Museum [video]

They languished in storage for years, but now, the first mural project of famed illustrator Howard Pyle are back on display.

8 years ago

 The budget blueprint for President Donald Trump's first budget and released by the Office of Management and Budget is photographed in Washington, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
Speak Easy
Arts & Entertainment

Attacking the NEA does not put ‘America first’

I thought about my grandmother last week, when Donald J. Trump unrolled a federal budget proposal that, to no on ...

8 years ago

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