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 Anastasia Griffith and Joey Slotnick in the Buck County Playhouse production of 'Chapter Two' (Photo courtesy of Mandee Kuenzle/Bucks County Playhouse)
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Review: Getting to know each other in ‘Chapter Two’

In Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical play “Chapter Two,” we’re asked to believe that two people in a whirlwind l ...

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Downed tree cleared, SEPTA train service restored

Train service is back on SEPTA’s entire Norristown High Speed Line following earlier shuttle bus service between Radnor Station and ...

12 years ago

 Pa. Rep. Mike Fleck lost the GOP primary election to a wrote-in challenger, but still has a 15-vote edge among Democrats. The first openly gay legislator in the Pa. State House, the Republican said it was his sexual orientation not his record that led to his GOP loss.

Write-in challenger takes GOP primary, but Fleck gets Dems’ nod in Pa.

Pennsylvania’s first openly gay state lawmaker says he nearly lost his re-election effort because of voters’ reaction to his ...

12 years ago

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Design committee has praise, questions for One Water Street proposal

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May 28: SOM to master plan 30th Street Station area | 3535 Market for sale | Mayfair playground, community building | la peg. at FringeArts | Katz/Lenfest win auction | Last day of Giovanni’s Room

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Amtrak launches 30th Street Station master planning

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Fairmount Water Works still recovering from May 1 flood

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Actvists offer ‘bribe’ for ban on gifts to Pa. lawmakers, officials

Government reform activists say they haven’t forgotten state lawmakers’ pledges to address the blind spots in Pennsylvania la ...

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Transformer fire knocks out power to 4,000 in Philly

Thousands of customers in downtown Philadelphia have lost power due to an underground transformer fire.PECO officials said two undergroun ...

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Montgomery County gets green light on same-sex marriage licenses

The suburban Philadelphia county that had been legally prevented from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples can now do so.A Montg ...

12 years ago

Dave Davies: Off Mic

Philly’s struggling media giant finds owners, if not direction

So what happens now? Most of the journalists I know from the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News think the right side won in the ...

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Nigerian transplants in Philly want to keep pressure on

Members of the Nigerian diaspora have held two rallies in downtown Philadelphia to bring attention to the kidnapped girls. In West ...

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Authorities ID three killed in Monday’s bus-car crash near Atlantic City

Authorities have released the names of three people killed when the car they were riding in collided with a New Jersey Transit bus on Mon ...

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 Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum walk through Philadelphia's Italian Market, reading 'the text of the street' Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Guided by impression and free association, Dutch artists chart emotional map of Philly

Dutch artists Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum are visiting Philadelphia for the first time and are creating their own subjective map of ...

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 McIlvaine kindergarteners learn to write in Mandarin Chinese (Shana O'Malley/for NewsWorks)

Delaware kindergartners learn Chinese and Spanish

Delaware officials are expanding the state’s language immersion initiative. On Tuesday, Gov. Jack Markell joined Ramon Gil-C ...

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