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WHYY News wins 17 Professional Keystone Media Awards for 2025

From Super Bowl LIX to a podcast on the 40th anniversary of the MOVE bombing, WHYY News coverage won recognition for a variety of stories.

43 minutes ago

Colin Coleman performing a stand-up set
Arts & Entertainment

At this Philly speed-dating event, laughter comes first

Dating app fatigue has some singles looking offline. One comedian is pairing stand-up with speed dating to help break the ice.

7 hours ago

Dominican-born Delaware artist Juan Santos stands in front of his paintings holding a yellow flower
Arts & Entertainment

‘It’s to make you feel included’: A Delaware artist’s new exhibit asks those to reflect on identity, family and belonging

What began as artwork created during different moments of his life, now comes together in ‘Becoming,’ a Delaware exhibit encouraging visitors to explore their own stories.

8 hours ago

The shuttered Rudolph Walton elementary school in Strawberry Mansion
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

A vacant 126-year-old school in Strawberry Mansion will become senior housing

The $34 million project will repurpose the historic property through a partnership with the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

8 hours ago

A foster kitten being snuggled
Community

‘Ready for their forever homes’: Philly brewery pop-up adoption event brings kittens a step closer to finding permanent families

PAWS sets a summer goal of placing 300 homeless pets in foster homes so it can rescue 300 additional animals.

9 hours ago

People at the Southeast Asian market
Weather

Philly’s Southeast Asian Market bounces back a week after microburst storm destroys inventory

A week after severe storms devastated vendor stands and inventory, the market bounced back and drew in customers.

22 hours ago

gluten-free chocolate cake mix
Community

This gluten-free expo, described as the nation’s largest, celebrates a delicious kind of ‘freedom’

The Wicked Gluten Free Expo and Food Festival gives people with celiac disease a rare chance to eat, shop and connect without worry.

1 day ago

Cooper Medical School students
Health

3 Philadelphia-area medical schools agree to add nutrition education in response to RFK Jr.’s push

The push to teach nutrition in medical schools predates the current administration. So far, 73 medical schools have signed on to the campaign.

1 day ago

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks from a prodium
Politics & Policy

Gov. Shapiro lends political capital to launch coordinated campaign to help elect Pennsylvania Democrats

State Democratic leaders announced the effort in the district of U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, one of four Republican-held seats they hope to flip in November.

2 days ago

The inside of Immaculate Conception Chapel
Community

Ambler chapel at historic Pa. seminary wins international architecture award

Immaculate Conception Chapel at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary is one of several historic, architecturally significant places honored by a Philadelphia-based nonprofit.

2 days ago

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy speaks at the Hanwha Philly Shipyard in front of the newly built The Lone Star State
Politics & Policy

Trump officials join Chester’s Scanlon at Philly shipyard to christen new training vessel and tout U.S. shipbuilding revival

The Hanwha Philly Shipyard was also awarded a contract to build a missile detection ship that will be part of the president’s “Golden Dome” anti-missile defense system.

2 days ago

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Display at The House, The Oracle, and The Table installation
Arts & Entertainment

‘The house is everything’: Germantown’s Colored Girls Museum invites vanessa german to install spiritual ‘magic’

“The House, the Oracle and the Table” is a site-specific work evoking the spirituality of a century-old house of Black art.

2 days ago

Roberto Lugo's tapestry, commenting on modern immigration
Arts & Entertainment

Washington crossing the Delaware has new meaning at the Michener Museum in Doylestown

“The Crossing” shows how artists have had their way with the American Revolution’s most iconic image over the last two centuries.

2 days ago

Rutgers University flag Camden Campus
Education

Rutgers University’s unionized faculty want administration to stop ‘unnecessary’ hiring freeze

The hiring freeze announcement comes as the unions have begun negotiating a new labor agreement.

3 days ago

Shown is Philadelphia along the Delaware River, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024.
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia Cultural Fund releases record-high arts and culture grants

The Cultural Fund is in the midst of a strategic planning process to find a more equitable funding model.

3 days ago

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