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Arts & Entertainment

Hidden City / Broken Symphony

Guests: Joseph B. Elliot, Nathaniel Popkin, Peter Woodall, Robert Blackson Philadelphia is filled with unseen spa ...

Air Date: November 27, 2017

Listen 49:00
View of city archives in West Philly
Community

From William Penn to a margarine outlaw, Philly City Archives on the move

There once was a time when you could be arrested for possession of margarine in Philadelphia.

8 years ago

Ruth Willis stands outside her home on 62nd Street, where she has lived since 1959. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Neighbors hopeful, skeptical about rebuilding homes burned in MOVE bombing

Thirty years after, the city is still trying to rebuild from the ruin it wrought.

8 years ago

Listen 3:45

There are many different ways to hold a divining rod or dowsing rod. Some people prefer to
NPR
Science

U.K. water companies sometimes use dowsing rods to find pipes

One water company, in a display of honesty, said technicians occasionally use divining rods to locate water mains — "however they are not accurate 100% of the time."

8 years ago


Pretty sure this isn't how things really went down.
(Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)
NPR
Lifestyle

How to enjoy Thanksgiving without swallowing the stereotypes

This week on Ask Code Switch, we're discussing how a new generation of parents and educators should talk to their kids about Thanksgiving.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Lifestyle

What is American cuisine?

Guest: Gabrielle Langholtz American cuisine is difficult to define. Our diverse culinary traditions, cultures, his ...

Air Date: November 22, 2017

Listen 49:03
Cartoon from a student newspaper, The Nassau Rake, depicting two white men commenting on the attractiveness of black women in Princeton, June 29, 1853.
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Princeton to air out its own legacy of slavery

The Princeton & Slavery Project, a website of research documenting the university's historic record of slavery, will host a symposium on campus this weekend.

8 years ago

At the June 15 School Reform Commission meeting, demonstrators carried signs calling for the SRC to vote itself out of existence and return the school district to city control. (David Hornbeck/The Notebook)
The Notebook
Education

A history lesson on landmark day for School Reform Commission

Former superintendent says SRC's birth was linked to student walkout, racism.

8 years ago

The Pulse
Health

The complicated ‘science’ of individual Communion cups

Individual communion cups were supposed to be about protection from germs. But a look back shows Americans had other reasons to stop sharing a communion cup.

8 years ago

Listen 6:30
A banner commemorates the 1903 opening of the Octavius V. Catto Elks Lodge in Philadelphia.
Arts & Entertainment

Philly History Museum offers primer on Octavius Catto’s life

Catto died too young to leave behind much in the way of material objects. The exhibition is document-heavy, with reproductions of historic archives and imagery.

8 years ago

Close-up of Washington's Tent in Verplancks Point watercolor  (Museum of the American Revolution)
Arts & Entertainment

Newly discovered painting shows Washington’s wartime tent

Philip Mead was online looking for possible artifacts from the American Revolution when a painting up for auction caught his eye and got his heart racing.

8 years ago

Dionne Warwick waves to the crowd while accepting the Marian Anderson award.
Arts & Entertainment

Dionne Warwick honored with Marian Anderson award in Philly

Last night, the Marian Anderson Award was given to Dionne Warwick at a gala concert at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia.

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Eyes on the Page: ‘Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City,’ reviewed

8 years ago

First
Arts & Entertainment

Going to the cleaners, Delaware Art Museum’s new exhibit gets some TLC

The Delaware Art Museum is hosting the first major retrospective of John Sloan’s work, but before these paintings went on display, they needed a little cleaning.

8 years ago

Jim Lonergan and Joyce Windfelder stand beside the Cpl. Charles J. Glenn Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Fishtown
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

50 years later, sustaining vivid memories of Fishtowners killed in Vietnam

Five decades later, its caretakers worry about how much longer they can keep Cpl. Charles J. Glenn 3rd U.S.M.C. Memorial going.

8 years ago

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