Elisabeth Perez-Luna

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Grandson thinks big to save Oscar Hammerstein’s farm in Bucks County [photos]

Some of America’s most famous musicals including “Oklahoma,” “The King and I” and “The Sound of Music ...

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Bruce Katsiff’s photos explore the grotesque beauty that living bodies can hide [photos]

I witnessed photographer Bruce Katsiff’s fascination with death and the beauty of decay when I accompanied him to Austin, Texas, in ...

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Philly Art Museum offers new look at Paul Strand, ‘master of modern photography’

Something rather strange happens when looking at Paul Strand’s photographs — an odd feeling of having seen them before. And, ...

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West Philly mural tells tales of teens searching for home

On 42 Street in West Philadelphia, a block off Lancaster Avenue, a green lawn marks the place where half a dozen houses once stood. ...

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Jess Kalup represents South Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Experimental play tries to put Philadelphia on a stage

OK, here’s your task. Create a portrait of Philadelphia that could convey to people at a glance the variety, the compl ...

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Final drawing for'Where the Wild Things Are.' Pen-and-ink and watercolor. ©The Estate of Maurice Sendak, 1963.

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The wild rumpus is ending as Philly’s Rosenbach prepares to return bulk of Sendak collection

For fans and researchers, one place has become synonymous with Maurice Sendak’s body of work — the prestigious Rosenbach Muse ...

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Going back to the basics in Syria with physician Abdalmajid Katranji

Dr. Abdalmajid Katranji has been treating badly wounded patients in a bare bones operation room for the past four years in Syria. ...

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The other protests of 1964 and the North Philly neighborhood spared by the riots

All week we’ve been bringing you the story of the 1964 riots in North Philadelphia. That unrest sprang up amid years of more ...

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-115561087/stock-photo-garden-maze-in-san-pedro-mount-la-coruna-spain.html'>Garden maze in San Pedro mount, La Coruna, Spain</a> image courtesy of Shutterstock.com.)

Know your friends better now to make life’s journey worthwhile

As fate and cancer would have it, I found myself going to too many funerals and giving too many spontaneous eulogies these past weeks. St ...

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Mary Mattingly's 'WetLand' looks like a rowhouse sinking into the Delaware, surrounded by floating gardens. (Elisabeth Perez-Luna/WHYY)

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As Fringe installation, ‘WetLand’ floats ideas of crisis, survival and adventure

Alongside the river wall on Delaware Avenue, outside Philadelphia’s Independence Seaport Museum, visitors will encounter a strange ...

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Syrian American doctors go to help heal those suffering in civil war

In conditions beyond primitive, where a bit of sanitized garden hose is used for surgical tubing and blacksmiths fashion metal scraps to ...

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In advance of Fringe Festival, ‘WetLand’ promises immersive art experience

It’s almost time for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and the “menu” inc ...

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