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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.
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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.

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The best man gets hugged; the bride gets kissed

Pete Chen was holding court at the bar of the Downtown Club, as waiters circled with chicken satay and stuffed mushrooms on trays, and th ...

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Christmas lights that stop traffic

The Christmas lights display at Jack Yoast’s home on Butler Pike in Ambler would leave the paterfamilias of “Nation ...

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The best and worst sounds of the season

We asked NewsWorks readers for the best, and worst, holiday songs. Most seemed to prefer rock, n ...

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The wedding: ‘The Cloud’ to the rescue

A dozen minutes behind schedule, Aaron O’Meara, flanked by his beaming parents, entered the main ballroom at Philadelphia’s D ...

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Intentional icing at Citzens Bank Park as rink forms for Winter Classic

Construction is well under way on the ice rink at Citizens Bank Park in South Philadelphia where the Flyers will play the New York Ranger ...

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Countdown to ‘huppah’: The best man seeks a comeback

“Sorry, Molly, the airport’s closed. We’re heartsick about it, but we had to give up and head home. Give Aaron a hug fo ...

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The best man blows it: The case of the missing rings

After a well-oiled, highly kibitzed viewing of the latest X-Men movie in the hotel suite, the male side of the Levy-O’Meara wedding ...

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The Santa experience — during the rest of the year

Today–the day after Christmas–the holiday begins to deflate. Stores are taking down decorations, and Santa Claus is packing u ...

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Wilma Theater remembers Vaclav Havel, Czech writer and politician

The Wilma Theater in Center City Philadelphia is remembering playwright and politician Vaclav Havel who died Sunday. The theater principa ...

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Recalling a once-famous 19th century Germantown kidnapping

The investigation of the famous 1874 child kidnapping of Charley Ross comes to life in Carrie Hagen’s new book “We is Got Him ...

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Wedding morning: The world wears white; the boys play some street ball

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Rachel in love, with a frosty beverage in hand

A few blocks away from the Omni hotel, Aaron O’Meara continued to gaze at Rachel Levy with lovestruck eyes, as she downed a very sm ...

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Chester County writers present a fiction ‘sampler’

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Parental postmortems on the rehearsal, and dread for a snowy dawn

About midnight that night, the Levys and O’Mearas each lay in their hotel rooms in Old City. Each husband and wife stared into the ...

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London bridging: Penn professor to design park for Olympics and beyond

A professor at the University of Pennsylvania has been chosen to redesign a section of London following the 2012 Olympic Games. La ...

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