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’s Holocaust Memorial Plaza, in Center City, is looking to update the way it remembers the atrocity suffered by Jews during World War II. WHYY’s Peter Crimmins reports on a new mural project meant to make the Holocaust more relevant to contemporary audiences.
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For the first time in almost 50 years, WHYY's Terry Gross will share her program “Fresh Air” with a co-host. WHYY's Peter Crimmins reports Tonya Mosley, who until recently was a host of the NPR show Here and Now, will share interviewing duties with Gross.
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Arts leaders in Philadelphia are looking ahead to the election of the next mayor, and they are starting to make demands now. WHYY's Peter Crimmins reports on what the arts sector wants the next mayor to do.
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Fifty stolen historic objects – most of them antique guns dating to the Civil and Revolutionary wars – were reunited with the 16 museums from which they were taken half a century ago. WHYY's Peter Crimmins reports on a spate of gun thefts from the 1970s.
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Because the Eagles lost to the Chiefs in the Super Bowl, the Philadelphia Museum of Art lost a bet: it must now loan a painting to its counterpart in Kansas City, the Nelson-Atkins Museum.
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The Philadelphia Flower Show will return in little more than a month as an indoor event, after spending two years outdoors in FDR Park. WHYY's Peter Crimmins went to a preview of what to expect.
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Philadelphia is mourning the loss of one of its greatest DJs, Jerry Blavat, known as the “Geator with the Heater.” He died Friday at age 82.
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It may not be curtains for the Philly POPS, yet. The orchestra had announced in November that it could not stay financially solvent and would shut down at the end of this season. But WHYY's Peter Crimmins reports the POPS has now decided to try keep it going.
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The public is being asked for the first time to nominate an influential woman for an award from the Pearl S. Buck Foundation. WHYY’s Peter Crimmins reports.
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People’s Light theater in Malvern, Pennsylvania, has been devising holiday plays called pantos every year for two decades - a zany musical genre usually geared toward children.