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Sheer Mag on stage
Music
Philadelphia

Photo essay: This year’s Philly Music Fest highlighted the city’s best, breakthroughs and next ones up

This year’s festival packed venues for six days in the metro area while raising funds for music education.

2 months ago

Gallery co-founder Chris Hammes demonstrates a puppet duck spinning on a motorized hook by Ollie Goss. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
Elections
Philadelphia
Politics
Visual Arts

Big Ramp gallery scratches at politicized pet memes in ‘The Sublime Is Meow’

More than 40 Philly artists contributed work to an exhibition at Big Ramp in Kensington honoring the pets of so-called “childless cat ladies.”

2 months ago

Listen 1:08
Martin Guitar factory
Business
Music
Pennsylvania
NPR

Another reason Pennsylvania is a swing state has nothing to do with the election

The historic Martin & Co. guitar factory and museum in Pennsylvania reflects tradition and innovation, anchored by meticulous handcrafting and reliable tech.

2 months ago

Dr. Audrey Evans
Medicine
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Film on Dr. Audrey Evans, CHOP oncologist and founder of Ronald McDonald House, will be screened this weekend

Dr. Audrey Evans is the subject of new biopic “Audrey’s Children,” a film set and shot in Philadelphia and written and produced by Philadelphians.

2 months ago

Flavor Flav performs onstage
Things To Do
Community Events
Delaware
New Jersey
Philadelphia

A hip-hop summit, a haunted circus and Al Roker signs cookbooks in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

Oct. 24–27: The second annual Hip-Hop Cultural Summit in Delaware, featuring Flavor Flav, and Halloween haunts in Philly and South Jersey are among the weekend’s highlights.

2 months ago

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Renée Mussai, who curated ''Mickaline Thomas: All About Love,'' gives a tour of the exhibit at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Mickalene Thomas’ homecoming at the Barnes is ‘All About Love’

The internationally recognized artist from Camden has her first solo exhibition in the Philadelphia region.

2 months ago

Listen 1:41
Rowan University
Higher Education
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

After the UArts collapse, Pig Iron Theatre finds a new home at Rowan University

The Pig Iron School for devised theater will remain in Philadelphia while becoming part of New Jersey’s Rowan University.

2 months ago

Listen 1:13
Nils Lofgren and Bruce Springsteen perfrom
Elections
Philadelphia
Politics
6abc

Bruce Springsteen to headline concert in Philadelphia with Barack Obama in support of Kamala Harris

Springsteen will kick off the concert series in Atlanta with Kamala Harris and Barack Obama on October 24.

2 months ago

a fabric shows a pattern of hands, circles and plus signs
Health Care
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

A digital archive of Philly artists with disabilities finds physical form at the Painted Bride

Created by a collective of artists and activists, the Undue Burden archive catalogs the creative lives of disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill Philadelphians.

2 months ago

Listen 1:23
The
Elections
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Philly’s first permanent mural about voting is all about hope

“Legacy in Bloom” in West Philadelphia is for future generations to celebrate civic engagement.

2 months ago

Listen 1:05
two pieces side by side
Pennsylvania
Visual Arts

Two rural museums outside Philadelphia partner to present the work of Wharton Esherick

The Brandywine and Wharton Esherick museums — both tucked into the woods 30 miles apart — exhibit the work of the master craftsman, together.

2 months ago

Listen 1:15
bikers on MLK Drive
Things To Do
Community Events
Delaware
New Jersey
Philadelphia

Philly Bike Ride, a coffee festival and Afro-Cuban All-Stars in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

Oct. 17–20: Philadelphia Film Festival, Debbie Gibson in New Jersey and “The Winter’s Tale” gala in Delaware are among the weekend’s highlights.

2 months ago

Listen 4:54
Philadelphia Orchestra pianist Kiyoko Takeuti
Elections
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Politics

The Philadelphia Orchestra is packing for China, and voting in advance

Musicians of the orchestra made a public display of absentee voting to encourage others to make a plan.

2 months ago

Listen 1:13
school children at a protest
Gun Violence
Movies
Philadelphia

Young filmmakers document gun violence in Philly’s Kensington neighborhood

Student filmmakers from North Philadelphia document gun violence in a new PBS documentary airing tonight on WHYY-TV 12.

2 months ago

Listen 2:19
a circle of people around the raised bed
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

Curio Theatre gets its hands dirty for the Lenape Nation

The West Philly company is using a garden bed to urge people to petition state legislators into recognizing the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania.

3 months ago

Listen 1:10
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