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Lifestyle

Dance party at Lucha Cartel (Jeison Moreno)
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

What’s the last ‘normal’ thing you did in Philly before the pandemic?

We’re collecting your memories of these pre-COVID “lasts.”

5 years ago

With indoor dining on hold, some restaurants have gone to great lengths to make outdoor dining work in the winter. (Mark Henninger/Imagic Digital)
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Public Health

Philly restaurateurs celebrate move to let different households dine outside together

Philly restaurant owners are celebrating the end of splitting up families and friends as the city relaxes outdoor dining rules.

5 years ago

Philadelphia chef Christopher Kearse is used to limited taste and smell. He lost those senses during a car accident as a teenager. (Courtesy of Christopher Kearse)
Food & Drink

Mask-wearing chefs learn new tricks to cook with limited sense of smell and taste

Tasting and smelling food have been a challenge for chefs working with masks during the pandemic. Here’s how they’re finding workarounds to make delicious meals.

5 years ago

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)
NPR
Behavioral Health
Business

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

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Christmas trees put out in the trash
PlanPhilly
Environment
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

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