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Community

Wagner course explores architecture and history of West Philadelphia

The course covers West Philly from its days as a separate municipality only accessible by ferry to the ongoing ripple effects of urban renewal.

3 years ago

Just a few hundred feet from I-95, water flows over the dam built in 1792 to power the mill at Cooch's Bridge near Newark, Delaware.
Community

Delaware historians are fighting to preserve historic Cooch’s Bridge site

DelDOT's decision to address the site’s deficiencies has stirred concerns among residents regarding its historic value.

3 years ago

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Community
Billy Penn

These are the coolest things made in Philly

The Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry is hosting its second-annual “Coolest Thing Made in PA” competition. Here’s our picks for the best “Made in Philly.”

3 years ago

ECW wrestler Sabu flies through the air onto an opponent and a table as part of the promotion's hardcore style. (Source: Flickr Commons project, Jonathan Ice, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5934466)
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Hardcore: Philly’s own brand of professional wrestling

Before WrestleMania arrives in South Philly next month, a look back at the legacy of Extreme Championship Wrestling.

3 years ago

This hour, we look about how dissent shaped our country and talk to book author Ralph Young.
Studio 2
Politics & Policy

American Patriots: A Short History of Dissent, Apple Antitrust Lawsuit

Dissent is baked into American history and the character of our nation. This hour, we look at how dissent has shaped our country.

Air Date: March 26, 2024 12:00 pm

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Kevin Hart
Community

Kevin Hart is joining a select group honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American humor

The comedian who rose from Philly's open mics and comedy clubs will be awarded at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on Sunday night.

3 years ago

Visitors look at an exhibit on the wall at the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site.
Arts & Entertainment

Eastern State Penitentiary has launched a family-friendly offering for spring break

A former Philly penitentiary, now a museum, is presenting a spring break exhibit highlighting sports and recreation behind bars.

3 years ago

A person walks in Philadelphia across the Delaware River from the USS New Jersey in Camden, N.J., Tuesday, March 19, 2024.
Community

Battleship New Jersey leaves port for the first time in 20 years for drydock refurbishment

The battleship returns to the dock where it was originally built in the early '40s for extensive repairs and new paint.

3 years ago

Listen 1:19
Vintage photo of a very crowded beach
Arts & Entertainment

N.J. State Museum exhibit offers a look at people and life in the Garden State in the 20th century

Rare photos from Grant Castner are part of a special new exhibit at the science, history and art museum.

3 years ago

Listen 1:10
Arts & Entertainment

The 18th-century instrument founded by a Founding Father

The armonica was invented in London, but its founder called Philadelphia home.

3 years ago

The new entrance at the museum
Community

New entrance makes Philly’s Seaport Museum lean toward its starboard side

With a new entrance opening Friday, the Independence Seaport Museum turns away from the I-95 cap, toward Spruce Street Harbor Park.

3 years ago

Listen 1:03
'I voted' stickers on election day
NPR
Politics & Policy

New data shows it’s gotten easier to vote in the U.S. since 2000

More voters have the ability to cast a ballot before Election Day, with the majority of states now offering some form of early in-person voting and mail voting to all voters.

3 years ago

The exterior storefront of Suplex Vintage Wrestling.
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Suplex Vintage Wrestling showcases the ‘passion of Philadelphia’ with two floors of WWE nostalgia

“Philadelphia is a wrestling city,” said owner Chris Kindig. “It has a lot of history, it has a lot of prestige. We’re almost obligated to give to that culture.”

3 years ago

Jamie Wyeth
Arts & Entertainment

Dead cats and cataracts: Jamie Wyeth is ‘Unsettled’

The artist is leaning into the strange and his anxieties about cataract surgery in a new art exhibit.

3 years ago

Listen 1:51
Astronaut Tom Stafford (left) and cosmonaut Alexey Leonov shake hands after the first docking of U.S. and Soviet spacecraft in 1975.
NPR
Community

NASA astronaut Tom Stafford, famed for U.S.-Soviet orbital handshake, has died at 93

Stafford also served as commander of Apollo 10 - the dress rehearsal before NASA's first landing on the moon in 1969.

3 years ago

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