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Larissa Hopwood and Aparna Nair dance
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Doylestown hosts its first annual Diwali Day

Doylestown had its first annual Diwali event at Burpee Park this Sunday. Hosted by Desis of Doylestown and Youth4Unity, community members came out for the festival of lights.

4 years ago

A slice of pumpkin pie. (Element5 Digital/Unsplash)
Community

A pie could help provide a meal for those in need this Thanksgiving

A Philadelphia-based group is selling holiday pies to help those in need have a healthy gourmet meal this Thanksgiving.

4 years ago

Lion dancers dance in the street during a parade.
Arts & Entertainment

A new parade for Philadelphia to celebrate the holidays

A multicultural parade will begin Philadelphia’s first in-person holiday season since COVID.

4 years ago

This 2019 photo shows The Morgantown West Virginia High School Marching Band marches along John F Kennedy Blvd during the 100th Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
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‘Turkey, football, and a late afternoon nap’: Philly Thanksgiving Parade to return to the parkway

Philadelphia’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is returning to a live event after going virtual last year.

4 years ago

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Why marigolds, or cempasúchil, are the iconic flower of Día de los Muertos

4 years ago

Isis Kirton, 25, in her Philadelphia home and creative space. (Tezarah Wilkins / Love Now Media)
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Love Now Media

Small Doses, Big Difference: How a young Philadelphia Artist creatively addresses mental and health wellness

Isis, a Delaware College of Art & Design graduate and co-founder of KLIK photography collective, has used the power of art to tell the stories of Black women.

4 years ago

[in center]: Taylor Kowalski, from Ridley Park, marching alongside others.
The Justice for Fanta Bility silent march in Sharon Hill, PA on 10/17/21. Fanta Bility was an eight year old girl who was shot and killed outside of a football game at Academy Park High School on August 27, 2021. The march had been organized and  led by the UDTJ and Delco Resists as a way to honor Fanta’s life as well as call for police accountability. 
[DANIELLA HEMINGHAUS]
Community

Photo essay: Silent marchers demand justice for Fanta Bility, 8-year-old killed by police in Delco

Community members took part in a silent march in Delco Sunday afternoon, calling for justice for Fanta Bility, the 8-year-old girl fatally shot by Sharon Hill police.

4 years ago

John's Roast Pork
Community
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John’s Roast Pork wins best cheesesteak competition

The people of Philadelphia have voted and the winner is: John's Roast Pork in South Philadelphia.

4 years ago

Pennypack Creek at the point where it meets the Delaware River. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Boosting Northeast Philly’s green canopy by planting trees and giving them away

Riverfront North Partnership and Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership team up to plant 200 trees along Pennypack Creek, give 150 more away.

4 years ago

In this 2015 file photo, Carol Cole is comfortably settled into her spacious well-lit studio at 915 Art Building on Spring Garden Street. One of the original artists to occupy the space, she had been there since 1981, and was one of the many artist forced out of the buidling in 2015 due to the fire. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Philly artists are opening their studios to the public for the first time since COVID

When the Philadelphia Open Studios Tour kicks off this weekend, one of its largest and most popular stops will reopen to visitors for the first time in six years.

4 years ago

Norma's Kitchen partners with Philabundance
Community
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Philabundance, Norma’s Kitchen partner to pack fresh meals, give Afghan refugees a taste of home

Philabundance is partnering with a Cherry Hill restaurant to pack up fresh meals that will give Afghan evacuees a taste of home in our area.

4 years ago

Runners take off at the start of at the start of the Broad Street Run. Participants had to provide proof of vaccination. (Mallory Falk, WHYY)
Community

Broad Street Run a ‘rejuvenating’ return to a new normal in Philly

The nation’s largest 10-mile road race was back on in Philly on Sunday — with some notable changes. Many of the 18,000 runners said it still felt good to be back.

4 years ago

Billy Penn Quizzo
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Take the Philly trivia quiz and test your local knowledge

24 questions about everything Philadelphia.

4 years ago

LumiNature light show
Community

LumiNature to return to Philadelphia Zoo with more space — and more wattage

The holiday light show debuted in November 2019, but went dark in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

4 years ago

Katherine Cambareri, a graduate with a masters degree in public health from Jefferson College of Population Health, stands with her photographs of clothes worn by survivors of sexual violence at her exhibit at Eakins Lounge at Jefferson Alumni Hall on October 6, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

‘Well, What Were You Wearing’ exhibit illustrates stories of sexual assault survivors

The exhibit at Jefferson works to counter the misconception that a person's wardrobe choices imply consent.

4 years ago

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