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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.
9 months ago
Listen 1:19N.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.
9 months ago
Listen 1:10The 18th-century instrument founded by a Founding Father
The armonica was invented in London, but its founder called Philadelphia home.
9 months ago
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.
10 months ago
Listen 1:03New 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.
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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.”
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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.
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Listen 1:51NASA 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.
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Downtown Philadelphia street banners honor a historically Black ‘city within a city’
Artist Xenobia Bailey’s “Radical Black Elite” spotlights the civic strength of 18th- and 19th-century Black residents in Philadelphia.
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The best games Philly’s ‘Cathedral of College Basketball’ has ever seen
As March Madness approaches, a look back at the Palestra’s place in basketball history.
10 months ago
Studio 2 LIVE from the Museum of the American Revolution
We’re broadcasting live from the Museum of the American Revolution and taking a trip back in history.
Air Date: March 14, 2024 12:00 pm
Listen 49:01The fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic faces eviction from a South Philly pier
The SS United States has been languishing at a pier in south Philadelphia for more than twenty-five years.
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The first Black pilot of a commercial airline has died at 89
Announcing Capt. David E. Harris' death, American Airlines's CEO called him a "trailblazer."
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A whisper to a scream: ‘Aluminum Flowers’ plays out the guitar’s history
The world premiere by Curtis composer Steven Mackey samples the development of guitar sounds over hundreds of years.
10 months ago
Listen 2:38Scientists take a step closer to resurrecting the woolly mammoth
Some scientists object to the whole idea of trying to revive extinct animals.
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