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December 20: Potential Pa. budget gap | Mayor Nutter’s manufacturing report | SEPTA budget, improvement plan | Logan Triangle’s past, present, future | Film society reopens The Roxy

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December 20 – January 5: Winter solstice celebrations | Ice Pop | Philadelphia History Museum book sale | Washington Crossing | Academy of Natural Sciences all-star week | Mummersfest | Kids’ New Year’s Eve | Shake Shack-Breakaway bike ride

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 Dave Jadico (left) and Scott Greer in a sketch in which sound effects are the only dialogue, in 1812 Productions' 'The Big Time: New Vaudeville for the Holidays.' (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
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Review: ‘The Big Time’ shticks to you

Those oldies but goodies remind me of … vaudeville. Hokey, corny, well-worn – you can throw all these names at it, and I wouldn ...

12 years ago

National Interest

Budget deal politics: Governing versus posturing

For a fresh take on the Republican uncivil war, check out the chasm on Capitol Hill that separates those in the party who want to govern ...

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December 19: Blatstein to buy South Broad lot | Details in former PHA chief’s case | LIHEAP assistance doubled | Year-round Porch food trucks | Living Christmas trees

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Bike lane parking? Tweet it to PPA

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Review: The effervescent ‘Jersey Boys’

I sat mesmerized the other night by the seamless affirmation of the American dream called “Jersey Boys” – and this was my t ...

12 years ago

 Jeremy Nowak, then president of the William Penn Foundation, had
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Ethics board clears Philly School District deal

So the Philadelphia Board of Ethics staff has decided that the William Penn Foundation did not engage in lobbying as defined by city law ...

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Chris Christie
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Can Christie bridge his troubled waters? (Yes)

Chris Christie’s bridge brouhaha has now entered the national ...

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The Philadelphia Experiment

Black Men with the Heart of Mandela

Nelson Mandela’s death put a positive black male image firmly in the news. That rarely happens. Knowing that black men are assets to co ...

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December 18: DRPA employees subpoenaed | 10-year tax abatement key for new Dranoff tower | Black brick fad | PA natural gas boom | Poverty up in Lower Northeast | $54M endowment for Art Museum

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Mural Arts project opens storefront, fights youth homelessness

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 This undated photo provided by the family of Robert Levinson, shows retired-FBI agent Robert Levinson in a photo the family received in April 2011. In March 2007, Levinson flew to Kish Island, an Iranian resort. Days later after a meeting with an admitted killer, he vanished. For years the U.S. has publicly described him as a private citizen who was traveling on private business. However, an Associated Press investigation reveals that Levinson was working for the CIA. (Levinson Family/AP Photo)
National Interest

CIA scandal scoop: Run it or sit on it?

When the U.S. government tries to kill a media scoop by invoking “national security,” how do we know whether our security is ...

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 Maggie Lakis in 'The Twelve Dates of Christmas' at Act II Playhouse in Ambler. (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater
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Review: Finding true love in ‘The Twelve Dates of Christmas’

“The Twelve Days of Christmas” is a song about the gifts a true love gives. “The Twelve Dates of Christmas,” at A ...

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
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Demolition underway for Episcopal brownstones and 40th Street M.E. Church

12 years ago

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