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Don Shump poses with his head, neck, and upper torso covered in honey bees at the Philadelphia Honey Festival. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Photo essay: The ‘Bee Beard’ returns to Philadelphia during the 2022 Honey Festival

Bees swarmed beekeeper Don Shump’s face during a sweet — and scary — demonstration.

4 years ago

On Saturday, September 10, at Mill Creek Recreation Center, neighbors and loved ones paid tribute to Tiffany Fletcher, a mother of three who was killed by a stray bullet Friday afternoon in front of the center. (Emily Rizzo/WHYY)
Community

Philly’s Mill Creek community mourns loss of beloved Parks and Recreation employee, calls for gun violence solutions

They say Tiffany Fletcher, who was killed by a stray bullet while at work, was a pillar of her neighborhood.

4 years ago

File photo: Actor Marsha Hunt arrives at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Luncheon in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Aug. 13, 2013. Hunt, one of the last surviving actors from Hollywood’s so-called Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s who worked with performers ranging from Laurence Olivier to Andy Griffith in a career disrupted for a time by the McCarthy-era blacklist, has died. She was 104.  Hunt died Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022 at her home in Sherman Oaks, Calif. said Roger Memos, the writer-director of the 2015 documentary “Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity.
Arts & Entertainment

Marsha Hunt, ’40s star and blacklist victim, dies at 104

Hunt was an established actor and was a rising star in the new medium of television when the work dried up because of allegations about her liberal activism.

4 years ago

King Charles III makes his declaration during the Accession Council at St James's Palace, London, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022, where he is formally proclaimed monarch. (Jonathan Brady/Pool Photo via AP)
Politics & Policy

Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Sept 19 at Westminster Abbey

Earlier, King Charles III was officially announced as Britain’s monarch.

4 years ago

Carlos Alcaraz, of Spain (right) hugs Frances Tiafoe, of the United States, after winning their semifinal match of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Arts & Entertainment

Alcaraz stops Tiafoe’s US Open run for 1st Grand Slam final

Alcaraz will face No. 7 Casper Ruud for the championship on Sunday with so much on the line.

4 years ago

Kadida Kenner (center), CEO of New Pennsylvania Project. (Courtesy of Kadida Kenner)
Politics & Policy

New Pennsylvania Project ramps up to make fall voting accessible to all

New Pennsylvania Project is kicking into high gear working to get voter momentum going into the fall elections. It’s modeled after one created in Georgia by Stacey Abrams.

4 years ago

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Philadelphia rec center worker dies after being caught in crossfire from gun battle, police say

A worker at a Philadelphia recreation center has died after she was caught in the crossfire of a nearby gun battle.

4 years ago

Joseph Lazaro Rodriguez crouches beneath his digital projection, ''Chromatherapeutics: Veritas DS,'' on display at the National Liberty Museum. Rodriquez's works complement the museum's exhibit about truth. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

National Liberty Museum shines a light on truth

In its new civic dialogue exhibition, the museum asked video installation artists for work about the truth and its slippery surface.

4 years ago

File photo: This photo shows an arrangement of Oxycodone pills. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Health

Polysubstance use and addiction on the rise in Pa. and Del., new report finds

More than 30 percent of patients seeking treatment at Gaudenzia non-profit addiction this past year had both a primary and secondary substance use disorder diagnosis.

4 years ago

A nurse holds a vial containing the monkeypox vaccine
Health

Philly residents can now submit online form to register for a monkeypox vaccine, but a shot isn’t guaranteed

Officials hope to streamline access to the vaccines, and make distribution more equitable, with the help of a new online interest form, which went live Friday.

4 years ago

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Community
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Beloved dancer, choreographer and CAPA teacher LaDeva Davis dies at 78

LeDeva Davis inspired generations of dancers who went on to perform on some of the biggest stages.

4 years ago

Transfer pipes carry liquified natural gas to and from a holding tank. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Community

Environmentalists decry permit extension approval for natural gas terminal in South Jersey

The extended permit gives Delaware River Partners, an affiliate of New Fortress Energy, until June 2025 to build a dock on the Delaware River in Gibbstown, Gloucester County.

4 years ago

Service workers pre-package hundreds of free school lunches in plastic bags. (Damian Dovarganes/AP)
Education

Free school meals expand to ‘middle-income families’ in New Jersey

Gov. Phil Murphy said new legislation he signed into law would reduce food insecurity and offer healthy meals to more families.

4 years ago

File photo: A pitch clock is deployed to restrict pitcher preparation times during a minor league baseball game between the Brooklyn Cyclones and Greensboro Grasshoppers, July 13, 2022, in the Coney Island neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Major League Baseball is set to announce a pitch clock and limits on defensive shifts next season in an effort to shorten games and increase offense. The sport’s 11-man competition committee is set to adopt the rules changes Friday, Sept. 9. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Arts & Entertainment

MLB adopts pitch clock, shift limits, bigger bases for 2023

The changes had long been pushed by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred in an effort to combat the increase in dead time and suffocation of offense in the age of analytics.

4 years ago

A person reaches for mushrooms on a shelf.
Community

How a small area in Chester County became the ‘Mushroom Capital of the World’

The 37th annual Mushroom Festival in Kennett Square is this weekend. Did you know Chester County produces half of the nation’s mushroom supply?

4 years ago

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