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Lightbox Film Center finds a new home at the Bok Building
Cast adrift by the closing of the University of the Arts in June, the art film presenter will start weekly screenings in South Philadelphia.
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Listen 1:02Gold Over America, GOAToberfest, Apple Butter Frolic and more in this week’s ‘Things To Do’
Oct. 3–6: Revolutionary Germantown Festival in Philly, Collingswood Book Festival in New Jersey and Marquis de Lafayette in Delaware are among the weekend’s highlights.
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Listen 5:09Preserving seeds as cultural heritage
WHYY’s Maiken Scott will moderate a discussion on ethnobotanical practices at the Academy of Natural Sciences on Thursday night.
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Philly nonprofit thrilled over financial boost to prevent gun violence
ManUpPHL will receive a $100,000 funding grant from Everytown Community Safety Fund to help more men turn from a life of crime to an opportunity to succeed.
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Listen 1:30Princeton professor highlights protest investigation as university celebrates her award
Dr. Ruha Benjamin said Princeton University excluded her statements referencing an investigation into a protest last spring from an article about her MacArthur fellowship.
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Prosecutors lay out new evidence in Trump election case, accuse him of having ‘resorted to crimes’
The filing from special counsel Jack Smith’s team offers the most comprehensive view to date of what prosecutors intend to prove.
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Former UD student ‘incel’ sentenced to prison for stalking and threatening women, fraud
Delaware resident Kyle Stevens submitted 10 fraudulent applications for pandemic aid for small businesses while living overseas.
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Listen 0:35Work begins on Logan neighborhood playground project after costs doubled since COVID
The project is part of the Rebuild program, which uses sugary drink tax money to help education and recreation projects.
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Listen 1:07Drug overdose deaths among Philadelphians have risen every year since 2018, but preliminary numbers for 2023 show a drop.
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Listen 1:01Pennsylvania Republican in key swing-state Senate race backs using military to fight fentanyl
David McCormick envisions using the U.S. military’s drones and special operations teams in Mexico to destroy fentanyl trafficking cartels.
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Who is the real JD Vance? And 4 other takeaways from the vice-presidential debate
Vice presidential candidates are unlikely to make a fundamental difference in this election, but there were some takeaways from an interesting night.
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Coveted Bucks County hosts dueling partisan watch parties for VP debate
With Bucks County evenly split between Democratic and Republican voters, local watch parties mirror the fierce divide.
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Listen 1:00Researchers looked at 230 cases of children 6 and younger who accidentally ingested opioids from common and uncommon sources.
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Listen 1:25Conservative Delaware think tank sues to stop Maryland offshore wind farm
Up to four power cables from offshore wind turbines will be buried under Delaware wetlands and beaches. Some fishermen worry about harm to wildlife.
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Listen 0:55Penn Medicine residents vote to approve union contract, a first for Pennsylvania
The negotiations took more than a year and included a large public rally and a recent incident where hospital security drove residents off a sidewalk.
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