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 Charles A. Lindbergh is shown in this 1927 file photo with his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, with which he made the first solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean from west to east, the same year. (AP Photo, file)

In new book, Bill Bryson revisits marvelous and mundane summer of 1927

The summer of 2013 has come and gone, but Bill Bryson wants to tell you about the summer of 1927. “It was the most magical a ...

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 Ryan Ward in
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Review: ‘Evil Dead — the Musical.’ Deadly? Or just evil?

Take cold comfort in the fact that “Evil Dead – the Musical” – a piece of juvenile, B-grade Grizzly Kitsch playing here i ...

12 years ago

Pirates return to playoffs after two decade absence

The Pittsburgh Pirates make their triumphant return to the playoffs this evening in a play-in game against the Cincinnati Reds, and many ...

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 Listening for the perfect sound are Sid McLauchlan, the recording's producer (left); Loren Lind, flute; and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, The Philadelphia Orchestra's music director (Image courtesy of Jessica Griffin)

Fabulous Philadelphians release studio CD

The Philadelphia Orchestra is releasing a studio CD. While the orchestra has released many recordings over the past few decades, all were ...

12 years ago

With Ellen Tiberino at center, African American Museum exhibit focuses on family circle

For Joe Tiberino, the new exhibition at the African American Museum in Ph ...

12 years ago

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First for Friday, September 27, 2013

Obamacare in Delaware The political back and forth over the implementation of Obamacare continues, but Delaware officials ...

Air Date: September 27, 2013

 Philadelphia Orchestra Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin:

Philly orchestra season starts with ‘just silence, the score and me’

Tonight’s the opening night for the Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2014 subscription season. For the musicians, this week has been ...

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 Leah Walton as Gilda Radner and Matt Pfeiffer as Alan Zweibel in 1812 Productions'
Shapiro on Theater

Review: ‘Bunny Bunny’ and what friendship means

Nearly a generation ago, Alan Zweibel wrote a sweet and funny play called “Bunny Bunny” about his deep 15-year friendship wit ...

12 years ago

 Tony Auth, right, with NewsWorks Tonight Host Dave Heller. (Kim Paynter/WHYY)

Tony Auth: I’ve just never lost interest in what I do

For more than 40 years, Pulitzer-Prize-winning Editorial Cartoonist Tony Auth’s work informed, enraged, and delighted newspaper rea ...

12 years ago

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 Lee Tusman is producer of

Slow-FM presents a taste of ‘chopped and screwed’ music in Philly

All day Tuesday, a tiny, micro-watt pirate radio broadcast will transmit some of the most popular songs ever, slowed down to a spooky spe ...

12 years ago

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 Penn Professor John Jackson will present

Penn Prof. John Jackson tackles race relations at Lightbulb Cafe

Eagles Wide Receiver Riley Cooper’s derogatory comments about African Americans kicked off a conversation about race.  Univers ...

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 Brandon Pierce (left) and Brendan Dalton in Azuka Theatre's
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Philly Fringe review: ‘Dutch Masters’

Two guys strike up an unlikely conversation on a New York subway car. One is a young black man; the other, young and white. The black man ...

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First for Friday, September 20, 2013

Mortgage mediation impact Over the last five years in Delaware, at least 25,000 people have been foreclosed upon. In 201 ...

Air Date: September 20, 2013

 A magnified detail from Eugen Napoleon Neureuther's 1847 etching, Cinderella, shows one of the heroine's stepsisters cutting off her toes. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

At Philly museum, prints charming and Grimm tell story of German Romantic era

Most museum exhibitions offer audio guides to help viewers take in the art. In the Honickman and Berman Gallery of the Philadelphia Museu ...

12 years ago

Being a Fringe Festival stage manager has ‘a bit of a mom element’ to it

This week’s guest on Recap, is one of the behind-the-scenes workers of the Fringe Festival, Lisa McGinn, stage manager for Geo ...

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