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Politics & Policy

Legal scholars to explore the future direction of the U.S. Supreme Court

Turns out the dog days of summer are a perfect time for Supreme Court aficionados to learn more about the nation’s highest court. & ...

8 years ago

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Houston, we have a people problem: the first ‘mutiny’ in space

In 1973, a communication snafu between astronauts in space and their colleagues on Earth, alerted NASA to the need for people skills and ...

8 years ago

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The Bearded Ladies Cabaret blends a camp account of the French Revolution with a satirical look at current events during their annual Bastille Day performance at Eastern State Penitentiary. (Emily Cohen for NewsWorks)
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Arts & Entertainment

American politics provides ample material for satirical Bastille Day show

“And what do we say about historical accuracy?” a newly resurrected, glittering Edith Piaf asked the crowd assembled outside of Phila ...

8 years ago

Arts & Entertainment

Traveling Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall replica in Bucks County this weekend

Over the weekend, a 300-foot replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial will be on display in a baseball field in Penndel, Bucks County. As ...

8 years ago

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Bearded Ladies’ John Jarboe, playing Edith Piaf, greets the crowd at the the 2016 Bastille Day performance.
Arts & Entertainment

Eastern State Penitentiary to host Trump-inspired retelling of Bastille Day

Bastille Day commemorates the 18th century storming of the infamous prison in Paris, a watershed moment in the French Revolution. All aro ...

8 years ago

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 Four of the five Marx brothers, from left, Chico, Groucho, Harpo and Zeppo, pose in 1930.  (AP Photo)
Speak Easy
Health

Humor is a powerful tool in a doctor’s arsenal

There’s a body of opinion that believes that laughter might, for some illnesses, be the best medicine.

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Q&A: PennDesign’s Frank Matero on preservation in Philly and around the world

8 years ago

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Lifestyle

In cod they trust

Newfoundland was Britain’s oldest colony; in 1949, however, its inhabitants narrowly voted to join Canada, thus becoming the 10th p ...

8 years ago

 Daguerreotype of Jonah Thompson, c. 1847 (Library Company of Philadelphia)
Speak Easy
Education

The unfulfilled dream of the School District of Philadelphia

When the School District of Philadelphia has a major problem, poor old Jonah Thompson is surely fidgeting in his grave. And the district ...

8 years ago

A sleeping chimp at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. (Photo courtesy of Lydia Hopper, Assistant Director, Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes)
The Pulse
Health

Sleep habits may have helped humans branch off from other primates

Human sleep behavior is different than that of many kinds of primates. That made researchers wonder, why did our branch of the family tre ...

8 years ago

Listen 5:42
 Syrians shop at the Hamadiyah market, or souk in Arabic, that was named after the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II, in the Old City of Damascus in May. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, file)
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

Alia Malek challenges us to reimagine Syrian-American

News about Syria stresses geopolitics, so it takes some effort to find an article remidning us that Syria is an actual country with people living there, and dying there. 

8 years ago

 The 6200 block of Osage Avenue was the site of a 1985 bombing in Philadelphia. The final location of a marker remembering the MOVE bombing is not yet known. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

Site for marker memorializing MOVE tragedy still not pinned down

At a Saturday afternoon ceremony in West Philadelphia, officials will unveil a state historical marker detailing the 1985 MOVE bombing, o ...

8 years ago

Listen 3:20
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Plan to install replicas of early Water Works sculptures approved by Art Commission

8 years ago

The Summit is a high rise student apartment building on 36th Street and Lancaster Avenue in Univeristy City. (Brad Larrison for NewsWorks)
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Community

Exploring the past, future of Philly neighborhoods during annual Jane’s Walk

In the spirit of Pennsylvania-born author and urbanist Jane Jacobs, Philadelphians took to the streets of University City Friday to surve ...

8 years ago

Kevin Mulligan, a volunteer with the Navy Lakehurst Historical Society, tells tour-goers about a reproduction of the control gondola of the Hindenburg, which was created for a 1975 movie about the disaster. The historically accurate prop is housed in Hangar 1, and covered in a tarp to avoid potential damage from leaks.
Community

See inside New Jersey’s hidden Hindenburg museum

It sounds like fantasy; an enormous, luxurious airship, filled with one of the most world’s flammable gases, shuttling the super-rich a ...

8 years ago

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