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 Ethan Lipkin (left) and David Stanger in the Ideopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium's production of 'Rhinoceros.' (Photo courtesy of Johanna Austin)
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Arts & Entertainment

Fringe Festival reviews: ‘Rhinoceros’ and ‘White Rabbit Red Rabbit’

A duo of reviews from Howie Shapiro; Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s “Rhinoceros,” and “White Rabbit R ...

12 years ago

Could Glassboro be the next Collingswood?

Five years ago, construction started on Rowan Boulevard, a street surrounded by shops and student housing adjacent to Rowan University ...

12 years ago

 This Aug. 19, 2014 file photo shows flash flood waters from the overrun Skunk Creek flood I-10 in northwestern Phoenix. Global warming is here, human-caused and can already be considered dangerous, a draft of a new international science report says, warning that it is increasingly likely that climate change could be irreversible. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Monday sent governments a final draft of its synthesis report, which combines three earlier, gigantic documents by the Nobel Prize-winning group. There is little in the report, that wasn’t in the other more-detailed versions, but the language is more stark and the report attempts to paint a bigger picture of the problem caused by the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and gas. (Matt York/AP Photo, file)
Politics & Policy

A summer beset by crisis, or simply drenched in media?

Ukraine. ISIS. Beheadings. Ebola. Gaza. Ferguson.  This seems a particularly grim time in our world. Yet is it, really ...

12 years ago

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Terry Gillen calls 2015 election a choice between old and new Philadelphia

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September 8: How Philly coddles repeat drunk drivers | Saffron pans Dilworth | Camden stabilizing| Chamber on 2015

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Aide: Corbett told of ‘inappropriate’ AG emails

Gov. Tom Corbett says he was told several months ago about “inappropriate” emails shared among staffers at the attorney gener ...

12 years ago

Authorities: N.J. man set at least 12 small wildfires

Multiple counts of arson have been filed a southern New Jersey man accused of setting at least 12 small wildfires during a six-week perio ...

12 years ago

Competitors in the Mens18-24 division finals head out to the water. (Brad Larrison/for NewsWorks)

Catching waves in Margate during 14th Annual Surf for a Cause [photos]

On a blistering hot day that felt more like Mid-August than September, hundreds of surfers took to the Decatur Avenue Beach in Margate Ci ...

12 years ago

 Voting machine operator George Stuski reads a newspaper as people cast their votes at the Mummer Museum in Philadelphia, Pa.  (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)
Politics & Policy

Pa. to hear electronic voting challenge

Pennsylvania voters have cast ballots electronically for years, but a voter-rights group plans to argue before the state’s highest ...

12 years ago

9/11 museum shows SEAL’s shirt from bin Laden raid

The shirt a Navy SEAL wore in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden is going on display at the Sept. 11 museum, along with a special coin ...

12 years ago

Politics & Policy

Obama defends decision to delay immigration action

President Barack Obama is defending his decision to delay taking executive action on immigration until after November’s congression ...

12 years ago

Pa. mom imprisoned for giving abortion pills to teen

A Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to prison for helping to end her teen daughter’s pregnancy by giving her pills purchased on ...

12 years ago

Politics & Policy

Anti-federal message to be delivered by horseback

A rural Nevada county will send a message the old-fashioned way to Washington about what it calls federal overreach on public lands: by h ...

12 years ago

N.J. inmate sentenced for plotting to kill prosecutor

A New Jersey inmate who is serving time for killing his neighbor has now received another lengthy sentence for plotting to kill the prose ...

12 years ago

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