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Emily Smith poses for a portrait at Philly's Magic Gardens
Health Care
Philadelphia
Public Health
Visual Arts

Philly’s Magic Gardens helps employees donate organs

The executive director of Magic Gardens found “joy” in donating a kidney. She changed the company's health benefits so workers can do the same.

3 years ago

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Tourists visit Stamford Bridge stadium home of Chelsea football club in London,  Thursday, March 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
International
Sports

Pulisic scores as Chelsea beats Burnley 4-0 putting aside off-field turmoil

Kai Havertz had two of the goals along with one each from Reece James and Christian Pulisic as Chelsea put aside the off-field turbulence sparked by its Russian owner.

3 years ago

A sign invites visitors to sit in the cars at the Philadelphia Auto Show. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Transportation

Philly Auto Show returns after COVID hiatus, flooded with electric cars

The Philly Car Show returns after a COVID hiatus to give drivers a taste of the power of new electric models.

3 years ago

Philadelphia Insectarium & Butterfly Pavilion CEO John Cambridge holds a pregnant flat rock scorpion. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Movies
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Documentary promises inside look at 2018 heist at Philly’s Insectarium

Back in 2018, thieves took around 7,000 spiders, roaches, and other animals. It seemed clear who did it, but the story is not so clear-cut.

3 years ago

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The Lightbox Film Center. (Courtesy of Lightbox Film Center)
Movies
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Philly’s Lightbox Film Center starts restoration work to give films a ‘second life’

After 43 years of presenting foreign and avant-garde film, the Lightbox Film Center launches a film restoration program to repair and revive old films.

3 years ago

U.S. forward Catarina Macario holds up the SheBelieves Cup MVP trophy after the team's 5-0 victory over Iceland in a soccer match Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022, in Frisco, Texas
Pennsylvania
Sports

U.S. women’s national team to host Uzbekistan in Chester and Ohio in April

The games come as teams continue to deal with international COVID-19 restrictions, which make scheduling with opponents difficult.

3 years ago

Philadelphia 76ers' James Harden practices at the NBA basketball team's facility, in Camden, N.J., Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Philadelphia
Sports

The Beard is here: Philly hype for James Harden’s home debut

Harden will be in the starting lineup when the 76ers play the New York Knicks on Wednesday night.

3 years ago

Corinne Bradley-Powers, founder of Corinne's Place soul food restaurant on Haddon Avenue in Camden, is a recipient of the prestigious James Beard award. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Food & Drink
New Jersey

Corinne’s Place, a ‘haven’ in Camden honored as one of ‘America’s Classics’

Corinne’s Place, whose soul food attracts people beyond Camden while shaping kids for their futures, receives prestigious award in the restaurant industry.

3 years ago

A taxidermied dog
History
Philadelphia

Historical Society pushes back on plan to transfer Philly History Museum to Drexel University

Historians and scholars join the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in pushing back against an agreement to transfer the city’s historic inventory to Drexel.

3 years ago

File photo: The founding members of Kool & The Gang, (from left) George Brown, Robert 'Kool' Bell, Dennis D. T. Thomas, and Claydes Charles Smith, were given the Marian Anderson Award in November, 2019. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community Events
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Play On Philly acquires the Marian Anderson Award

The annual award given to a high-profile entertainer for their social impact will now be administered by an after-school music education program.

3 years ago

File photo: Food trucks line Locust Street at a 2016 Dining Out for Life pop-up. (Image courtesy of Laura Weber)
PlanPhilly
Food & Drink
Philadelphia

After two-year hiatus, Philly’s Dining Out For Life fundraiser for those affected by HIV relaunches

The annual night of dining out in Philadelphia to support services for people living with HIV is back in person this year after a hiatus during the pandemic.

3 years ago

The entrance to Kreate Hub
Neighborhoods
Philadelphia
Visual Arts
Billy Penn

Kreate Hub turned an empty school into a thriving center for artists, entrepreneurs

The incubator is one of several arts initiatives helping beautify and strengthen the neighborhood.

3 years ago

The 28th annual African American Children's Book Fair at the Community College of Philadelphia was held pre-pandemic on Feb. 8, 2020
Books
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

After 30 years, African American Children’s Book Fair expands to the Convention Center

After 30 years, the African American Children’s Book Fair has expanded into the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

3 years ago

In addition to fronting Screaming Trees, Mark Lanegan also worked with Queens of the Stone Age, The Gutter Twins, Isobel Campbell and Mad Season. (Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images)
NPR
Music

Mark Lanegan, Screaming Trees singer and voracious collaborator, dies at 57

Mark Lanegan, the versatile rock musician and Screaming Trees singer, died Tuesday of unspecified causes at his home in Killarney, Ireland.

3 years ago

During trips to the American Southwest with his wife, Albert Barnes collected Pueblo pottery and textiles.His collection is displayed with other traditional and modern works in the Barnes exhibit, ''Water, Wind, Breath: Southwest Native Art in Community.'' (Emma Lee/WHYY)
History
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Barnes Foundation spotlights its Native American collection for the first time

90 years ago Albert Barnes collected 239 pieces of Pueblo and Diné (Navajo) artwork. They have never taken center stage until now.

3 years ago

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