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Dancers perform on stage during the Festival of India at Penn's Landing Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. (Emily Cohen for NewsWorks)
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Celebration of independence showcases Indian culture in Philly

Happy, nervous energy filled the backstage area as dancers from more than 35 organizations readied themselves to perform at the Festival ...

9 years ago

Speak Easy
Gender
Home & Family

What crisis? Fatherhood is alive and well

As an active and involved dad, a parent advocate, and author of 12 parenting books, I appreciate that every third Sunday in June is reser ...

9 years ago

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Home & Family

I may be impatient, but — are you done reading this yet?

I have trouble waiting for anything: a paycheck, the weekend, a manicure. Imagine my chagrin when my children, from birth, exhibited the same impatience that has tortured me.

9 years ago

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Prostitution decriminalized: Rhode Island’s experiment

What can public health learn from the time the state decriminalized prostitution? Around the world, there’s a growing moveme ...

9 years ago

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Penn's Landing: October 2, 2002 7:10 a.m. - Sunrise 6:57 a.m. (Jonathan Wilson / Philadelphia Inquirer)
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Photographer rises with the sun to capture Philly at first light [photos]

Early morning, an hour before and after sunrise, provides wonderful lighting opportunities. Sometimes it’s ethereal, sometimes myst ...

9 years ago

The Jenny Lee Sportfishing crew poses with the record breaking Mako shark in Brielle on Saturday. (Image: Jenny Lee Sportfishing)
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Fishing crew sets new N.J. record with 926-pound Mako shark catch

A fishing crew in New Jersey has reeled in a 926-pound Mako shark, and environmental officials say it’s the biggest shark catch in ...

9 years ago

Saturday, July 22,2017. Ocean City, N.J. Night in Venice. (Bill Barlow/for NewsWorks)
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2017 Ocean City, N.J. boat parade photos

Thousands lined docks and street ends, and crowded into innumerable house parties, for this year’s Night in Venice boat parade in O ...

9 years ago

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Airbnb presents fresh challenges in Atlantic City, and possible opportunities

City Councilman Jesse Kurtz says he does not oppose the rise of internet-based vacation rentals such as AirBnB or VRBO in a resort town t ...

9 years ago

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Philadelphia

5 iconic Philadelphia food families [photos]

Several of Philadelphia's most iconic fooderies have been passed down from grandfathers to their grandchildren and, in at least one case, great-great-great grandchildren.

9 years ago

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Sometimes you can’t wait to escape from vacation

I now know why people feel compelled to travel. It isn’t for love of the open road, exotic adventure or an overwhelming desire for ...

9 years ago

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Dolls? Trucks? I’ll take what’s behind door No. 3

Elissa yearned for a toy truck. She received a pink Jeep, a pale facsimile of what she had in mind. And I have a memory of browsing the a ...

9 years ago

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Urban Farming

Guests: Chris Bolden-Newsome, Jenny Greenberg, Eric Ellestad Rows of cabbage, eggplant, and sweet potatoes are gr ...

Air Date: July 14, 2017

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Home & Family
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A ‘beta’ marriage is a better marriage

While many Millennials may be tying the knot in non-traditional DIY ceremonies, they’re likely still entering into a traditional “until death do us part” marriage. Too bad.

9 years ago

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In cod they trust

Newfoundland was Britain’s oldest colony; in 1949, however, its inhabitants narrowly voted to join Canada, thus becoming the 10th p ...

9 years ago

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Business

Rituals of the business lunch

Club toting neanderthals, squatting around a carcass, sniffing and grunting and divvying up property, may have been having the precursor ...

9 years ago

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