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It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.
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The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane

It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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Ordinary items such as bicycles or hair extensions are gaining symbolic significance as we use them to project to a time when we can finally use them with others or show them off. (Kaz Fantone for NPR)
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A bicycle. A trip. Or just pants: The things we buy when pining for normal times

Even the most mundane purchases are becoming objects of hope as we crave the routines and experiences of daily life in this period of isolation.

5 years ago

(Facebook/Draught Horse Pub and Grill)
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

From Fireball shots to stolen chicken fingers, your best stories from the Draught Horse (RIP)

The Temple bar is closing for good after two decades.

5 years ago

Radio Times
Food & Drink
Home & Family
Public Health

Cooking adventures from your home kitchen

At the beginning of the pandemic, people turned to their kitchens for creativity. But as we continue to stay at home, how can we enjoy and remain inspired by cooking?

Air Date: January 29, 2021

Listen 48:59
 An unidentified member of a neo-Nazi group displays a Nazi battle flag by the Delaware Canal as others engage in a shouting match with opponents on the other side of the canal during an anti-gay rally last year in a state park in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. Both groups also hurled rocks, bottles, and sticks at one another as hundreds of state police stood by. (AP Photo/Widman)
Radio Times
Mental Health
Race & Ethnicity

Deradicalizing extremists

The storming of the Capitol was a visceral reminder to many of us that America is replete with extremist and cult-like groups, and that their existence is by no means benign.

Air Date: January 27, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Christmas trees put out in the trash
PlanPhilly
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Philadelphia
Sustainability

How to recycle or reuse your Christmas tree — from feeding goats to saving dunes

Where to go and what to do if you want to get rid of your Christmas tree without stressing sanitation workers or the environment.

5 years ago

Radio Times
Behavioral Health
Environment

Human cooperation and survival

Evolutionary anthropologist Brian Hare says that human being's ability to cooperate and communicate with others even across species, is what's behind our success and survival.

Air Date: January 30, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:44
The popular Seattle restaurant San Fermo allows only two people inside each of its enclosed dining igloos at a time — to reduce the risk that people from different households will dine together. (Will Stone)
NPR
Food & Drink
Public Health

Yurts, igloos and pop-up domes: How safe is ‘outside’ restaurant dining this winter?

A pivot to outdoor dining helped many restaurants survive the pandemic. Now some have added temporary shelters to accommodate winter weather. The safest don't have walls.

5 years ago

(Danya Henninger/Billy Penn)
Philadelphia
Sex & Relationships
Billy Penn

I swiped right on 4,000 people to discover how Philly dated in the year of COVID

Dates at Walmart, peeing in bushes and fetishes on Zoom.

5 years ago

A character puts (or takes out) some cookies in (from) the oven, which is shaped like a house to represent the time we're spending at home during the pandemic.
NPR
Food & Drink
Home & Family

2020 in the kitchen: The year we spent making, baking, frying and trying

Whether it was discovering new uses for pantry staples or learning to bake bread at home, many people got acquainted with their kitchens during the pandemic.

5 years ago

(Instagram/@Kampar_Kitchen)
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity
Billy Penn

Kampar Kitchen is a new restaurant incubator that aims to elevate chefs from diverse backgrounds

The venture from Saté Kampar chef Ange Branca officially launches at the Bok in January.

5 years ago

Foobooz founder Art Etchells (inset) created a map to document Philly restaurant closings. (ClosedinPHL)
Business
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

New map lets you track Philly restaurant closings — and hopefully reopenings, too

“It hits a nerve to see it all in one place visually.”

5 years ago

(AP Photo/Carla Carniel)
Radio Times
Health Care
Medicine

Whole body health

We talk with Dr. Daniel Monti about the stresses caused by the pandemic, the impact on our bodies and minds, and healthful ways of coping.

Air Date: November 25, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 49:18
Many Americans are mourning the loss of Thanksgiving traditions due to the coronavirus pandemic, such as family gatherings. But some are seeking new rituals to mark the holiday. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP Photo)
NPR
Home & Family
National

Families and friends mourn loss of Thanksgiving traditions, seek new ones

Thanksgiving usually means gatherings and celebrating abundance. As the pandemic rules out crowded tables, Americans mourn missed traditions and build new ones.

5 years ago

Broad Breasted White turkeys roam their open-air enclosure. (Madeline Gray for NPR)
NPR
Food & Drink
Home & Family

Small turkeys are in demand as Americans downsize at Thanksgiving

As families across the U.S. scale back on how they celebrate the holiday, it's been a challenge for turkey producers as they figure out how to adapt to the changing market.

5 years ago

Mike 'Scoats' Scotese (Left) holds the Philly Beer Week Hammer of Glory outside Grey Lodge Pub in 2015. (Danya Henninger/Billy Penn)
Business
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Grey Lodge and Bridgewater’s Pub closing for good as COVID restrictions strike key Philly beer bars

For both venues, the final blow was Philly’s latest ban on indoor dining.

5 years ago

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