Peter Crimmins
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Arts+Culture reporter for WHYY
Philadelphia
Joined July 2009
RT @WHYYNews: UArts’ Anderson Hall has been sold to become a mixed-use development. Thunderbird Salvage is trying to rescue everything lef….
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UArts’ Anderson Hall has been sold to become a mixed-use development. Thunderbird Salvage is trying to rescue everything left behind.
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RT @WHYYNews: Selections of Live Aid — the massive 1985 concert held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London and the old JFK Stadium in….
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Like the original, Philly’s anniversary Live Aid performance will also be a fundraiser, this time benefiting the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
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RT @WHYYNews: The revolutionary moment that gave birth to the United States 250 years ago had many stories. Philly-area historical organiz….
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A massive digitization and artificial intelligence platform gives free access to multiple historic archives and thousands of documents.
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RT @WHYYNews: Laurel Raczka, the longtime leader of the Painted Bride Art Center, is stepping down after 26 years with the arts organizatio….
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Laurel Raczka, the longtime leader of the Painted Bride Art Center, is stepping down after 26 years with the arts organization.
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RT @WHYYNews: Drill dance troupe Maci Lago Universe is competing for a national championship while changing lives back at home. via @peter….
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Maci Lago Universe is competing for a national championship while changing lives back at home.
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RT @WHYYNews: Tucked into Philly’s largest tract of wild forest, “TERRA” explores ecofeminism and the disruptive forces of gravity. via @p….
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Tucked into Philly’s largest tract of wild forest, “TERRA” explores ecofeminism and the disruptive forces of gravity.
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RT @WHYYNews: After catching fire in 2018, a Cape May church associated with the Underground Railroad is now a theater space. via @petercr….
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The church associated with the Underground Railroad was sold to Cape May after it burned in 2018. It’s now the home of East Lynne Theater Company.
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RT @WHYYNews: "Giovanni's Room," the revered gay literature classic by James Baldwin, was always held tightly by the author and his heirs.….
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Philadelphia’s Quintessence Theatre has produced the only adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1956 novel approved by his estate.
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RT @WHYYNews: After 22 years of covering every nook and cranny of Philadelphia’s gallery scene, TheArtBlog is closing down. via @petercrim….
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What started as a passion project against disappearing arts coverage turned into one of Philly’s most regular and reliable art news portals.
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RT @WHYYNews: Arts organizations in Philadelphia and elsewhere scramble to cope with an abrupt cancellation of promised federal funds from….
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Arts organizations in Philadelphia and elsewhere scramble to cope with an abrupt cancellation of promised federal funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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RT @WHYYNews: LOVE Park's empty visitor center shaped like a flying saucer comes to life with nightly film projections about Philly immigra….
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The empty visitor center shaped like a flying saucer comes to life with nightly film projections about Philly immigrants.
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RT @WHYYNews: This weekend, the filmmakers are teasing the first season, which starts in June, at Bryn Mawr College. via @petercrimmins….
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The show about fathering started as a pilot last year. This weekend, the filmmakers are teasing the first season, which starts in June, at Bryn Mawr College.
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RT @WHYYNews: “Don’t Forget to Remember (Me)” by Nekisha Durrett is a landscaping monument challenging the college’s racially exclusionary….
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“Don’t Forget to Remember (Me)” by Nekisha Durrett is a landscaping monument challenging the college’s racially exclusionary past.
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RT @WHYYNews: The Museum of the American Revolution shows how the shifting ideals of American liberty can be traced in the historic flags o….
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The Museum of the American Revolution shows how the shifting ideals of American liberty can be traced in the historic flags of militias.
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RT @WHYYNews: Peacocks and giraffes and snails, oh my!. Giant, plant-based sculptures are strewn around the @phillyzoo to drive home the co….
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The five “ZOOtopiaries” drive home the connections between plants and animals.
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RT @WHYYNews: In "Rift," a play from InterAct Theatre, the two actors playing brothers trying to bridge irreconcilable racial differences s….
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The two actors playing brothers trying to bridge irreconcilable racial differences switch roles every night.
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RT @WHYYNews: This weekend, Philadelphia says goodbye to Macy’s department store in the Wanamaker Building. The iconic building has been a….
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The building at 13th and Market streets has been a department store for 149 years. The legacy of Philly’s proud retail history is scattered around the city.
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RT @WHYYNews: An ice-skating drag show about climate change was pilloried on national television. Philly’s @KnowYourBeards holds that as….
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“Beards on Ice,” about climate change, was mocked on Fox News in December. The cabaret group's artistic director hopes the negative attention heightens her message.
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RT @WHYYNews: Amid the shifting legal status of Trump's executive orders, Philly arts organizations are struggling to keep up. via @peterc….
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As the National Endowment for the Arts tries to comply with the shifting legal status of Trump’s executive orders, arts organizations are struggling to keep up.
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RT @WHYYNews: Philadelphia Orchestra is premiering a work about a climate apocalypse averted by a hummingbird. via @petercrimmins .https:/….
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Gabriela Lena Frank’s “Picaflor: A Future Myth” digs into ancient Peruvian mythology to tell a story about the future.
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