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Beyond SoundAboutPhilly: Philadelphians Are Making Their Voices Heard
Fact Sheet
Beyond SoundAboutPhilly:
Philadelphians Are Making Their Voices Heard
Adventure Aquarium
Photo by R. Kennedy for
GPTMC
On soundaboutphilly.com, you can hear about many beloved or
lesser-known Philadelphia people and places with a new series of
free, dynamically mapped and completely customizable sound-seeing
tours of Philly, but SoundAboutPhilly is not alone. All over the
region, people are making their voices heard through audio tours.
Here are a fe
*
Free unless otherwise noted.
Download Culture
:
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The Brandywine River Museum’s free
online audio tours offer in-depth discussions of landmark
paintings (
Portrait of Pig), artist biographies (Andrew Wyeth), the
museum, its gardens, the Brandywine Conservancy and more.
http://www.brandywinemuseum.org/
- Hosted by Mervon Mehta, vice president of programming and
education for
The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts,
“Kimmelcasts” are available on The Kimmel
Center’s blog.
http://www.blog.kimmelcenter.org/
-
The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s
podcasts educate listeners about different artistic styles,
exhibitions and museum topics.
http://www.philamuseum.org/
- Recordings of the
Philadelphia Orchestra are available for
download from the Orchestra’s new online music store,
stocked with recent live recordings, historic recordings and
commercially released CDs. Downloads begin at $4.99.
http://www.philorch.org/
Download Science & History
:
- On the
Adventure Aquarium’s site, Web surfers
can see and hear about various aquarium adventures, including
their Swim with the Sharks experience, from different Philly
broadcast personalities like WMMR’s Preston &
Steve.
http://www.adventureaquarium.com/
- The Constitutional Walking Tour of Philadelphia offers
several walking journeys, including an mp3 “Audio
Adventure Walking Tour” and a “Constitutional
Cell Phone Tour,” through key historic sites in
Philadelphia. Starting at $0.99 for a single site to $24.99 for a
family tour.
http://www.theconstitutional.com/
- Each day, more than 1,500 listeners tune in to the
fascinating programs with diverse perspectives on the
National Constitution Center’s free
podcasts, recently deemed “new and notable”
by Apple iTunes.
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/
Download Dining
:
- The romantic restaurant
Friday, Saturday, Sunday has “Kitchen
Radio” on its Web site, with talks about food prep, the
new dining room mural and more.
http://www.frisatsun.com/
- Two Central Jersey restaurateurs host “Restaurant
Guys Radio,” providing podcasts about the local dining
scene and featuring such guests as
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s elusive dining
critic Craig LaBan, Alison Barshak of Montgomery
County’s Alison at Blue Bell and
Philadelphia Style’s Joy Manning on
bring-your-own-bottle restaurants, gastropubs and the Stephen
Starr restaurant empire.
http://www.restaurantguysradio.com/
Download Local News
:
-
Philadelphia City Paper hosts “Local
Support,” a bi-weekly, 90-minute podcast about local
music.
www.citypaper.net/podcast
-
The Philadelphia Daily News offers free weekly
news-story-style podcasts that pertain to Philly, featuring
interviews with local writers and programmers on subjects ranging
from the
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe
Festival to sports news.
http://www.phillyfeed.com/
- Billing itself as an alternative to corporate media, the
Philadelphia Independent Media Center is a grassroots news
organization with news-focused podcasts.
http://www.phillyimc.org/
- WHYY’s podcasts include “Radio Times with
Marty Moss-Coane,” “Arts Calendar”
and other National Public Radio podcasts.
http://www.whyy.org/
- Public radio station WXPN has several podcasts available,
with artist profiles, interviews and performances by emerging and
established artists.
http://www.xpn.org/
Download Philly Sports
:
…And More
:
- Penn Future runs podcasts that discuss
Pennsylvania’s environmental and political issues.
http://www.pennfuturepodcast.org/
- Like other podcast directories, podcast.net links to many
podcasts related to Philadelphia, including an unauthorized
Eagles podcast, videocasts by a sketch comedy troupe named Secret
Pants, sermons from Grace Baptist Church, local music, a gay talk
forum and sports.
http://www.podcast.net/
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