Peter Crimmins | WHYY
WHYY’s arts and culture reporter Peter Crimmins first became interested in radio in the fourth grade, when he smuggled a contraband crystal-diode radio into the Boy Scout summer camp. Subsequent radio projects were more successful.
Crimmins has been reporting on arts and culture for WHYY News since 2010, as well as filing award-winning radio and print stories locally and nationally. He started his career in the San Francisco Bay Area, cutting his teeth at community station KALX and producing syndicated radio programming for Ben Manilla Productions. He lives in Fishtown with his wife and two dogs.
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Philadelphia is expecting an economic bump when the World Series comes to Citizens Bank Park next week. But it's hard to say how much. WHYY's Peter Crimmins reports the hospitality industry is getting ready. -
Spy surveillance pictures taken from 13 miles above the earth by U-2 reconnaissance planes during the Cold War are now on view at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology.
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The new staff union at the Philadelphia Museum of Art have been negotiating for the first contract with management for 22 months. Recently, the union filed charges of unfair labor practices against the museum with the National Labor Relations Board. WHYY's Peter Crimmins has details on the Union's plan.
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The Philadelphia Folk Festival returns to the Old Poole Farm in Montgomery County, with ticketed concerts running from Friday through Sunday. The festival had been entirely digital for two years -- due to the pandemic.
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A sculpture of a plane crashed outside the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia eleven years ago. Now it's being removed. WHYY's Peter Crimmins reports the sculpture was always meant to be temporary.
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A museum of religious art just outside Philadelphia, in Bryn Athyn has closed down for eighteen months for critical renovation work. The Glencairn Museum also houses an important collection of medieval artifacts. WHYY’s Peter Crimmins reports some of that collection has been temporarily loaned to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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For the first time in three years, the Chinese Lantern Festival has returned to Franklin Square in Philadelphia. WHYY’s Peter Crimmins reports the annual illuminated festival was interrupted because of the pandemic and is back with new mechanical lanterns.
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say there are measurable health benefits associated with visiting art museums. WHYY's Peter Crimmins reports on a body of scientific research on psychological health associated with cultural engagement.
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Two years ago, during the 2020 election count, two men packed guns into a Hummer and drove from Virginia to Philadelphia, allegedly to disrupt the vote count happening inside the Pennsylvania Convention Center. They were arrested on weapons charges.
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The Philadelphia Water Department wants you to take the pledge this summer and abstain from using single-use plastic water bottles. WHYY’s Peter Crimmins reports on a campaign of downtown art installations that encourage people to drink tap water out of reusable bottles.
