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Host Stephen Dubner has surprising conversations that explore the riddles of everyday life and the weird wrinkles of human nature-from cheating and crime to parenting and sports. Dubner talks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, social scientists and entrepreneurs - and his Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt.

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Bob Marley, Harry Potter, and the nation’s largest urban health festival: Your plans 7/26 – 8/1

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Happy Birthday, Harry Potter

If you didn't book your tickets to Hogwarts in time, celebrate the birth of the Boy Who Lived at one of these local events.

8 years ago

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Songs from a half century ago still resound with meaning for a troubled time

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Jess Conda, as Feste, fronts the band Midsummer Madness in a glam rock version of
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The Bard goes glam in Clark Park’s ‘Twelfth Night’

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8 years ago

 A crowd watches the performance by Steve Aoki on day one of the Budweiser Made in America Festival in Philadelphia. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
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Philly mayor, Jay-Z’s Roc Nation agree to keep Made in America on the Parkway

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The Philadelphia Women’s Slavic Ensemble performs at Bertram’s Gardens Sunday. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Slavic singers bring the music, traditions, food of the Balkans to Bartram’s Garden

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The mural honors slain police Sgt. Robert Wilson III.

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