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Scenes from the 2nd Street Festival in 2019
Community

Northern Liberties Night Market returns for first-ever spring edition

After a damp test launch in the fall, the spring edition will bring 50 food trucks, food tents, and vendors back to Northern Liberties.

4 years ago

Chris Bartlett. (Courtesy of The William Way LGBT Community Center)
Community

The story behind Remembrance, an alternative memorial to Philadelphia’s HIV/AIDS crisis

Ron taught me the path to hope, and resilience is to ensure we don’t forget, or under-mourn, these tremendous losses incurred in our community, writes Chris Barlett.

4 years ago

Penn GRASP Lab student Lilian Stoesser works on a robotic flower that is programmed to open and close in response to the music of ''Beyond the Binary.''
Arts & Entertainment

For their 100th anniversary, robots go ‘Beyond the Binary’ in Philly choral performance

Autonomous technologies help the Mendelssohn Chorus perform a new work about the ethics of robotics.

4 years ago

Philadelphia 76ers' Doc Rivers speaks during a news conference at the team's NBA basketball practice facility, Friday, May 13, 2022, in Camden, N.J. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Arts & Entertainment

76ers need better Harden, healthy Embiid to contend in East next season

Sixers basketball President Daryl Morey said Doc Rivers will return for a third season as coach.

4 years ago

File photo: Former national security adviser Robert C. McFarlane gestures while testifying before the House-Senate panel investigating the Iran-Contra affair on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 13, 1987. (AP Photo/Lana Harris, File)
Politics & Policy

Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane dies at 84

McFarlane died Thursday from complications of a previous lung condition at a hospital in Michigan.

4 years ago

Deputy Police Commissioner Ben Naish addresses an increase in carjackings in Philadelphia.
Courts & Law

Philly police set to surpass last year’s total for carjacking arrests just five months into 2022

The department has recorded more than 500 carjacking incidents so far this year.

4 years ago

Philadelphia City Hall is visible in a view of the Philadelphia skyline.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

City Council passes measure that gives city workers affordable housing preference

The news comes as Philadelphia contends with an affordable housing crisis and a tight housing market that has kept home prices high.

4 years ago

Orange cones at the Lukoil gas station on Route 1 South in West Windsor altering motorists that the gas pump would be open for self-service if New Jersey allowed it. It was part of a demonstration to support a bill in the Assembly that would allow a self-serve option. (P. Kenneth Burns/WHYY)
Money

Some N.J. gas stations lower price to demonstrate self-serve savings at the pump

More than 75 gas stations throughout the state demonstrate how much money motorists can save, if the legislature passes a bill permitting self-serve gas.

4 years ago

Philadelphia City Council chambers. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Technical and supply chain issued delay Philadelphia City Council’s return to live meetings

The issues range from crawl space wiring to problems with a newly purchased wireless microphone system for councilmembers.

4 years ago

A sign advertises the Wilmington Airport.
Community

Delaware loses commercial airline service

The state’s on-again/off-again relationship with commercial airlines is about to be off again. Frontier Airlines plans to end the state’s only commercial flights in June.

4 years ago

Kathy Barnette, a Republican candidate for a Pennsylvania U.S. Senate seat, speaks during a forum in Newtown, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
Politics & Policy

Barnette, surging in polls, tries to avoid mainstream attention and rebuff GOP attacks

Kathy Barnette is newly competitive in the GOP U.S. Senate primary. With days to go, she’s avoiding mainstream press and fighting GOP insiders.

4 years ago

A view of the Delaware State University's women's lacrosse team
Courts & Law

Delaware State University to file federal civil rights complaint over drug search of lacrosse team’s luggage

The April 20 traffic stop and search has generated national media coverage. University President Tony Allen says the police engaged in misconduct.

4 years ago

File photo: Delaware Div. of Public Health Director Dr. Karyl Rattay. (Saquan Stimpson for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Long-time Delaware public health leader to step down

Dr. Karyl Rattay has led the Div. of Public Health since 2009, and has been a fixture as the state battled COVID-19. She’ll leave her job at the end of June.

4 years ago

Tawainna Anderson (right) and her attorney at the announcement of Anderson's suit in Philadelphia U.S. District Court against TikTok. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Courts & Law

TikTok faces lawsuit in Philly over girl’s ‘blackout challenge’ death

The suit claims the social media platform TikTok inappropriately inserted the deadly challenge into a 10-year-old girl’s feed.

4 years ago

An elderly woman walks inside a metro station being used as a bomb shelter in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, May 12, 2022.
Community

Russia takes losses in failed river crossing, officials say

Ukrainian and British officials say Russia suffered heavy losses when Ukrainian forces destroyed the pontoon bridge enemy troops were using to try to cross a river.

4 years ago

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