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May 28: Bridesburg tradition amid change | 15 nominees for historic designation | Royal Theater conservatorship? | Ori Feibush’s world | limp lineup of mayoral contenders | Blatstein caught schmoozing

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PlanPhilly
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May 28-31: Ed Bacon and the Future of Philly | Land Bank symposium | Garden heritage conference | PHS Pop Up Garden opening | Callowhill walk | ‘My Architect’ screening

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The Philadelphia Experiment

Time for Philadelphians to step up for children’s education

Last week I wrote about students who marched to protest budget cuts in the Philadelphia School District. Then I posed a simple question: ...

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National Interest

Beaches and barbecues aside…

  “All of us lead busy lives. We have little time to pause and reflect. But I ask of you: Do not hasten through Memoria ...

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Happy Memorial Day

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Shapiro on Theater
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Review: ‘Spring Awakening’ awake yet groggy

Hormones are erupting all over the place at Theatre Horizon’s “Spring Awakening” in Norristown – I nearly slipped and ...

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National Interest

Boy Scouts wave (partial) goodbye to bigotry

  The good ...

12 years ago

Shapiro on Theater
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Review: ‘Lend Me a Tenor’ but give me a romp

Someone asked me if I’ve seen the current local production of “Lend Me a Tenor,” and I burst out laughing. That pretty ...

12 years ago

Speak Easy

Want young people to vote? Give us a change we can see.

“Why should young people vote in local primary elections?” Public education, climate change, civil rights, the justice system ...

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
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May 24 – 26: Historic Amistad tours | Memorial Day in Historic Philadelphia | Preservation Alliance tours, City Hall and Gilded Age Philadelphia | Fireworks at Longwood Gardens | 40th Street Summer Series

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
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Rough but far from ruined: Seeing Philly’s past anew along the Northeast Corridor

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
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May 24: Charter leaders join funding request | SEPTA fare increase, delayed budget votes | US Conference of Mayors | Lower Lancaster Ave Revitalization Plan | Census shows Philly’s growth

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
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Shissler Rec Center opens new sprayground

12 years ago

Speak Easy

For whom do I cry? Prose from juror No. 3

I cry for the jury. I am the jury. We are husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, bankers, lawyers and teachers. We ...

12 years ago

Shapiro on Theater
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Review: “Lysistrata,” still protesting

The women of ancient Athens are feeling repressed. They have equal rights, they even have the vote, but now the all-male Senate is trying ...

12 years ago

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