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Over the weekend, JAM promoter and trombonist, Ernest Stuart closed out this year’s month of events with a performance at Center City ...

Vivian Nix-Early spends her Tuesday afternoons sitting on a bright-blue carpeted floor surrounded by a handful of singing 4-year-olds. Sh ...

Five Pennsylvania House incumbents have lost their seats in the primary, according to the latest vote counts. One longtime Republi ...

Women and experts from across the country are gathering in Philadelphia this weekend for a conference on living with metastatic breast ca ...

Business in Center City Philadelphia is rebounding from the recession.   The annual “State of Center City” report ...

Sharon White and Elaine Terranova, both poets from Philadelphia, came to the Falls of Schuylkill Library last week to share their work wi ...

Here’s a look at what’s to come on NewsWorks this week: Philadelphia Water Department officials will ...

World Dance Day returns to Philadelphia for the third ...

If you haven’t gotten tickets to Sunday’s event featuring “This American Life” host, Ira Glass, NewsWorks.org has you covered ...

The Department of Public Welfare is set to begin asset tests for Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program recipients. Asset te ...

The DEA is collecting all unwanted or expired medications today, across the country. In an effort to keep prescription drugs out ...

High atop Wilmington, Delaware’s Brandywine Building, literally nested on the 19th floor, resident peregrine falcons, CJ and Red Girl t ...

Thin wires run from an odd-looking contraption to the limp arm of an elderly American statesman who lies dying in a darkened bedroom insi ...

The 28th Virginia Infantry, Company D, has a website. On it are tips for women to pass as men on the battlefield: Cut hair short, or tuck ...

Here’s what you may have missed in Northwest Philadelphia this week:  1. ...