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Fire roasted peppers from Savoie Farms
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A true farm-to-table dinner highlights organic vegetables with a campfire feel

At Chef Shola Olunloyo's showcase dinner at the Savoie Organic Farm in October, diners ate freshly prepared vegetables right next to the fields where they were grown.

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Grabbing turkey legs to gnaw on might be taboo at some tables and encouraged at others. But whatever your Thanksgiving traditions, they're all yours. (Evans/Getty Images)
NPR
Home & Family

Is your Thanksgiving more ‘Norman Rockwell’ or ‘Game of Thrones’?

Thanksgiving does not just come from cookbooks and pro tips. It comes from families — the ones we're born into, brought into or that we convene ourselves.

8 years ago



Hopefully these Chicago travelers had plenty to keep them entertained Tuesday evening. That looks like it might have taken a while. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
NPR
Home & Family
Music
Travel

A podcast playlist for Thanksgiving road warriors

If you're one of the millions of Americans with hours of traffic on the interstate or on a plane in your future, this list is our gift to you.

8 years ago

David Cassidy walks down a street in London in April 1974.
NPR
TV

David Cassidy, singer and 1970s TV heartthrob, dies at 67

One of the biggest music and television stars of the 1970s has died.

8 years ago

Executive and artistic director Christine Cox at the BalletX groundbreaking.
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Constructing modern ballet on Washington Avenue

The city's retail corridor for building supplies will be the new home for BalletX.

8 years ago

Della Reese
Music
TV

Della Reese, of TV’s ‘Touched by an Angel,’ has died at 86

Della Reese, the actress and gospel-influenced singer has died at age 86.

8 years ago

Anthony Lawton and Mary Lee Bednarek in Lantern Theater Company's production of
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Performing Arts
Philadelphia

‘The Craftsman’ and another craftsman’s new play (Lantern Theater Company)

Bruce Graham's play, in its world premiere, is a riveting piece about an art dealer charged with treason.

8 years ago

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Cartoon from a student newspaper, The Nassau Rake, depicting two white men commenting on the attractiveness of black women in Princeton, June 29, 1853.
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New Jersey
Race & Ethnicity

Princeton to air out its own legacy of slavery

The Princeton & Slavery Project, a website of research documenting the university's historic record of slavery, will host a symposium on campus this weekend.

8 years ago

This weekend's Nerdtino Expo in Philly is being billed as the first-ever Latino-focused comic book convention on the East Coast.(https://www.nerdtino.com/)
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Books
Race & Ethnicity

As geek media diversifies, Philly expo celebrates Latino contributions

On Saturday, "Nerdtinos" — or Latino nerds — will converge at the Nerdtino Expo in Philly, the first-ever Latino-focused comic book convention on the East Coast.

8 years ago

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Scott Greer in Arden Theatre Company's production of
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Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Skillfully capturing the essence of ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ (Arden Theatre Company)

The audience helps actor Scott Greer deliver this tale of a man with a mom who attempts suicide and his list that supplies reasons for living.

8 years ago

Composer David Ludwig will become the latest recipient of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra’s A.I. du Pont Composer’s Award. (photo courtesy Delaware Symphony Orchestra)
Delaware
Music

Composer David Ludwig to be honored by Delaware Symphony Orchestra

David Ludwig will become the latest recipient of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra’s A.I. du Pont Composer’s Award tonight when he accepts the honor in Wilmington.

8 years ago

A bust of Napoleon Bonaparte by Auguste Rodin is on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Pennsylvania
Sculpture

Lost Rodin bust finds a home in Philadelphia

A forgotten bust by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, hiding in plain sight in a small New Jersey town for 80 years, is now on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

8 years ago

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Justin Guarini and Jillian Gottlieb get to know each other in
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Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Was ‘The New World’ ever this flashy? (Bucks County Playhouse)

A world premiere musical offers the fun side of Pilgrims and Native Americans that we never saw. (Neither did they!)

8 years ago

A banner commemorates the 1903 opening of the Octavius V. Catto Elks Lodge in Philadelphia.
History
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

Philly History Museum offers primer on Octavius Catto’s life

Catto died too young to leave behind much in the way of material objects. The exhibition is document-heavy, with reproductions of historic archives and imagery.

8 years ago

Close-up of Washington's Tent in Verplancks Point watercolor  (Museum of the American Revolution)
History
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Newly discovered painting shows Washington’s wartime tent

Philip Mead was online looking for possible artifacts from the American Revolution when a painting up for auction caught his eye and got his heart racing.

8 years ago

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