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Friday Arts
Arts & Entertainment

Mayor: The Best Job in Politics

Producer: Karen Smyles Friday Arts visits the campus of The University of Pennsylvania for an interview with Mich ...

7 years ago

Ron Stallworth (pictured here in 1975) was the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department. (Courtesy of Ron Stallworth)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

How a black detective infiltrated the KKK

In his new memoir, Black Klansman, he tells the story of how he hoodwinked the Ku Klux Klan into thinking he was one of them.

7 years ago

In this file photo, former President Bill Clinton listens as author James Patterson speaks during an interview about their new novel,
Arts & Entertainment

Bill Clinton sticks to book and literacy in Philly appearance

Speaking at a book tour event in Philadelphia, former president Bill Clinton said that if it wasn’t for ...

7 years ago

In late August following a prison lockdown, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections halted book donations from organizations as well as inmates’ families and friends Now, the DOC is letting book donation groups communicate with inmates, and family and friends can buy books directly through publishers. (StudioDin/BigStock)
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Cookbooks, comics, and capitalism: Book clubs for every reader

Choose your own adventure with these book club offerings in Philadelphia and beyond.

7 years ago

Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

A novelist and psychiatrist reflect on school shootings

Guests: Tom McAllister, Steven Berkowitz The aftermath of a school shooting is the subject of Philadelphia author ...

Air Date: June 4, 2018 10:00 am

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NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight, May 30, 2018

The deadline approaches to clear the addicted from the encampments in Kensington.  Local author Peter Moskowitz (How to Kill a City) ta ...

Air Date: May 30, 2018

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Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow has written the picture book
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Philly children’s book author fills a need with ‘Mommy’s Khimar’

A new children’s book from a Philadelphia author focuses on a mother-daughter bond told by a young girl who delights in wearing an Islamic headscarf.

7 years ago

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Muhammad Zaman, author of the book Bitter Pills: The Global War on Counterfeit Drugs, in his lab at Boston University.
(Jackie Ricciardi/Boston University)
NPR
Health

Fake and faulty drugs: A problem no one wants to talk about

The World Health Organization also estimates that between 72,000 and 169,000 children may die each year because of substandard or fake antibiotics.

7 years ago

William Birch's paintings capture Philadelphia in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (Library Company of Philadelphia)
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

America’s first coffee-table book offers ‘Views of Philadelphia,’ on exhibition now

America's first coffee-table book, circa 1800, showed Philadelphia as the world's next great city.

7 years ago

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(photo credit/Henry Throop)
Radio Times
Science

New Horizons: NASA’s mission to Pluto

Guests: Alan Stern, David Grinspoon NASA’s New Horizons spaceship launched in 2006 to visit tiny Pluto at edge ...

Air Date: May 2, 2018 10:00 am

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Kevin Young's 2012 essay collection The Grey Album: On The Blackness Of Blackness was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. (Melanie Dunea/CPi)
NPR
Community

Filtering American history through a ‘Brown’ lens

Young's new book, Brown, is colored by memories from his family and childhood, United States history, and black culture.

7 years ago

George Vallianos (left), president of the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association, and board member Henry Brann, stand beneath a portrait of the poet at the Nick Virgilio Writers House in Camden.
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Writers house in Camden honors ‘haiku king’ Nick Virgilio

Camden's king of haiku poetry - Nick Virgilio - now has a writers house named after him.

7 years ago

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Photos of Mummers from the book
View Finders
Arts & Entertainment

Mummers off Broad: New book of photos documents a decade of wenches

Photographer and Drexel professor Andrea Modica photographed Mummer wenches, one day a year for 10 years.

7 years ago

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Across Europe, laws on fracking vary. In 2016, after years of debate over environmental concerns and economic interests around fracking, Germany banned some forms of it. Environmentalists are calling for a total ban. (Robin Wood/flickr)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

‘The Shale Dilemma’ goes global: Author discusses shale gas development across the world

Shanti Gamper-Rabindran a University of Pittsburgh professor and editor of The Shale Dilemma, sat down for an interview about the topic.

7 years ago

Alvin Irby, founder of Barbershop Books, is on a mission to get kids reading in the barbershop.
(Nickolai Hammer/NPR)
NPR
Community

Turning kids into readers, one barbershop at a time

It's mid-afternoon when Irby walks in, a man on a mission. He needs a trim from his go-to barber, Kenny, but he also wants to check in on his 15 books.

7 years ago

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