Kimberly Haas
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Age-old therapy new again as medicinal leeches are back in demand
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Philly’s hometown Absurdists bring Ionesco to the Fringe
In the midst of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival’s abundance of new work for theater, dance and music, one local troupe has turned ...
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In the midst of very new theater works, this year’s Fringe Festival also features some familiar literary women, though transported ...
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ListenRecord label debuts with compositions from Curtis
One casualty of our online world has been the recording industry. Since the ’90s, many record labels have folded or consolidated as ...
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ListenDancing over Philly’s hidden river
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ListenActive carbon emission reduction must now follow monumental Paris climate agreement
The COP-21 Climate Summit in Paris is hailed as a monumental success because all 196 countries committed to sign the agreement. It must b ...
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ListenPhilly’s finest absurdists take on America’s ‘finest news source’
The theater of the absurd is alive and well in Philadelphia. The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium has presented classic examples of 19 ...
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