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History

A person reading the book 'Philadelphia, Corrupt and Consenting'
Politics & Policy
Billy Penn

How Philly was shaped by a lengthy rogues’ gallery of corruption

Did you know the failed 1926 sesquicentennial celebration is basically why we have a wage tax?

4 months ago

The Chinatown Friendship Arch is visible on a sunny day.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philadelphia Chinatown, Tanner House make national list of endangered historic places

Residents say a proposed arena could spell the end of Chinatown. A busted roof could do the same for the historic rowhome in North Philly.

5 months ago

Established in 1871, Philadelphia Chinatown includes more than 40 locally designated historic properties
NPR
Urban Planning

Here’s the latest list of the ’11 Most Endangered Historic Places’ in the U.S.

The 2023 list includes a gas station, an artist studio and two Chinatowns.

5 months ago

A 1982 New York magazine cover highlighted the astonishing case of Frank Waxman
Community
Billy Penn

The Philly doctor who shoplifted the largest collection of stolen art known to authorities

Frank Waxman eventually pleaded guilty to theft of eight pieces, a fraction of the 100-plus he’s thought to have nabbed.

5 months ago

In this May 5, 2015, file photo, dancers from Jalisco, Mexico, perform during Cinco de Mayo celebrations in Portland, Ore. President Donald Trump's immigration policies and rhetoric are leaving some Mexican Americans and immigrants feeling at odds with a day they already thought was appropriated by beer and liquor companies, event promoters and local bars. American bars and restaurants gear up every year for Cinco de Mayo, offering special deals on Mexican food and alcoholic drinks for the May 5 holiday that is barely celebrated south of the border. 
(AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)
Community

Cinco de Mayo celebrates Mexican culture, not independence

In the United States, the date is largely seen as a celebration of Mexican American culture stretching back to the 1800s in California.

5 months ago

DJ Jazzy Jeff performs on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)
Studio 2

50th Anniversary of Hip Hop, St. Joe’s New Art Museum, Studio 2 Trivia

The birth of hip hop happened 50 years ago. We're talking with Philly icons DJ Jazzy Jeff and Charlie Mack about the early days of the genre and its evolution today.

Air Date: May 4, 2023 12:00 pm

Listen 45:30
Eszter Kutas stands at Holocaust Memorial Plaza.
Community

Philly Holocaust memorial will update itself with a new mural

The Holocaust Plaza in Center City has the oldest Holocaust memorial sculpture in America. Now it is commissioning the largest mural.

5 months ago

Listen 1:15
An art project is seen with the words ''vote'' and ''love'' visible
Arts & Entertainment

Philly mayors have a mixed history of supporting the arts. Will the next one be an arts mayor?

The mayor’s support of the arts — or lack thereof — plays a big role in the cultural community’s success. Here's a look back at some highs and lows.

5 months ago

Listen 6:15
This 1955 file photo shows Carolyn Bryant. Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died Tuesday night, April 25, in hospice care in Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday, April 27, 2023, in Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office in Louisiana. She was 88
Community

Carolyn Bryant Donham, at center of Emmett Till death, dies

According to a death report filed Thursday in Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office in Louisiana, Donham died Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana.

5 months ago

Olympic-medalist and former Moët Hennessy executive Herb Douglas attends the unveiling of artist Kadir Nelson's inspired art sculpture titled, ''The Major,'' at the World Trade Center
Community

1948 Olympic bronze medalist Herb Douglas dies at 101

The University of Pittsburgh, where Douglas starred on both the football and track teams before later serving in various roles for his alma mater, said Douglas died Saturday.

5 months ago

Grace Kelly arriving to Santa Fe Depot in Pasadena in 1956 after riding the Super Chief train from Philadelphia
Community
Billy Penn

Was Grace Kelly’s royal marriage set up by a beloved Wilmington priest?

Father Tucker’s role in the movie star’s romance with Prince Rainier of Monaco was unconfirmed, but “he was a legend in his own time.”

5 months ago

A black-and-white photo shows people gathered in a park.
Community

‘We have met the enemy, and he is us’: Remembering the first Earth Day 53 years later

It’s been 53 years since the first Earth Day. People in the Philadelphia area share their memories of the event, and what it means to them decades later.

5 months ago

A black-and-white photo of people overlooking a sewage plant.
PlanPhilly
Community

Sam Baxter: The complex legacy of the man behind the water treatment plant

Philadelphia's first water commissioner transformed the city's drinking water system but "was no saint.”

5 months ago

Listen 2:08
Neil King walking on a path along a river.
Arts & Entertainment

On 300-mile walk, ‘American Ramble’ author explores the ‘whole story of the country’

Neil King spent almost a month walking from Washington, D.C. to New York City, detouring through historic Southeastern Pennsylvania.

5 months ago

Listen 4:08
A young Angelina Jolie played Carangi in the 1998 HBO biopic ''Gia.''
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

How a Philly hoagie maker’s daughter became the ‘world’s first supermodel’

Gia Carangi's life — and tragic death — was the subject of a 1993 book by journalist Stephen Fried and a movie starring Angelina Jolie.

5 months ago

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