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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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Urban Planning

Brought to Light: Celebrating Louis Kahn’s residential designs

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 Defendant Michael Dunn is brought into the courtroom just before 5 p.m., where Judge Russell Healey announced that the jury was deadlocked on charge one and have verdicts on the other four charges as they deliberate in the trial of Dunn, Saturday, for the shooting death of Jordan Davis in Nov. 2012. Dunn is charged with fatally shooting 17-year-old Davis after an argument over loud music outside a Jacksonville convenience store. (AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Bob Mack, Pool)
The Philadelphia Experiment

Michael Dunn, Jordan Davis and the plight of black boys

I awakened on Sunday morning praying for America.     I prayed that I, as the black father of a black son, ...

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Dave Davies: Off Mic

Corbett a ‘killer,’ liberal group charges

On Tuesday, the liberal advocacy group Keystone Progress sent shock waves through the Pennsylvania’s capital with a mass email char ...

12 years ago

National Interest

Mark Halperin on the ’16 Republican vacuum

  Here’s a durable tradition, like baseball and apple pie: Long before a presidential nomination season, Republicans al ...

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Pro-demolition preservationists? Cara Bertron explores rightsizing and preservation

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Urban Planning

February 14-16: Rain garden workshop | Paleopalooza | Many Faces of George Washington | Mural Arts’ Restored Spaces | George Washington at Valley Forge

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PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

February 14: Open data tension | PHL: Here for the Making | Supermarkets don’t change behavior | Lower North transportation recommendations | TreePhilly giveaway | Building collapse court case update

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Dave Davies: Off Mic

Battle over Inquirer & Daily News resumes – in Delaware

A Delaware judge has told lawyers for the feuding owners of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News to write him short memos explaining ...

12 years ago

Speak Easy

Sick of snow? Share your summer pix with us!

Let’s all pretend the region isn’t covered in snow. Share your summer photos with us via email or Twitter ...

12 years ago

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National Interest

Sanity reigns in Washington, tea party throws temper tantrum

If you’re snowed in and jonesing for a black-comedy war movie, forget Netflix. Just check out the tea party’s latest artiller ...

12 years ago

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Speak Easy

Take precautions, but don’t take personal safety for granted

Ugh, my upstairs neighbors are home drunk from the bar again. It wasn’t until the next morning, when a policeman knocked on ...

12 years ago

 Joe Guzman (left) as Cassius and Forrest McClendon as Julius Caesar in Lantern Theater Company's production of William Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar.' (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: When ‘Julius Caesar’ feasted on sukiyaki

Did you hear the one about the conquering Roman soldiers who were heading home but ended up in Tokyo? They lost their focus, but got a de ...

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

February 13: Comcast expands | Mormon church plans residential tower | Condo King buys Old City properties | Parking debate | South Street’s Southwark Theatre

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Winter 2013-2014 Index

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Dave Davies: Off Mic

Smoking kills good cheer — here’s to CVS

As we endure another blast of winter weather and another assault on our patience and good cheer, a thought occurred to me about people wh ...

12 years ago

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