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The Día de los Muertos procession in 2019. (Photo by Justin Mayer/Fleisher Art Memorial)
PlanPhilly
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Wind down Philly’s epic election week with a bittersweet Día de los Muertos livestream

Fleisher Art Memorial’s Día de los Muertos celebration goes virtual, but “still carries the spirit.”

4 months ago

Philadelphia’s Fashion District. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Courts & Law

Bomb threat called in targeting the Philadelphia Fashion District

Police confirmed a bomb threat was called in targeting the shopping mall, located near the offices of the Inquirer and the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

4 months ago

yellow police crime scene tape with a blurred police car in the background.
Courts & Law

Philly DA’s Office employee kills armed man in self-defense, officials say

An employee with the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office shot and killed an armed man who tried to rob him at gunpoint, officials confirmed with NBC10.

4 months ago

Willingboro Mayor Tiffani Worthy (center) joins local and county officials to cut the ribbon on the township's first county park. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Urban Planning

Willingboro residents celebrate their town’s first county park

Willingboro Lakes Park is the first Burlington County park to open in the township.

4 months ago

Beautiful fall foliage
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Billy Penn

Philly tree list: 9 spots to see dazzling fall colors right in the city

Where to peep gorgeous autumn leaves without a big trip.

4 months ago

A small tan coquí frog sits on a tree branch in the dark
Arts & Entertainment

A Puerto Rican frog comes to North Philly: The coquí sing in El Centro del Oro

A sound installation along 5th Street evokes the nighttime chorus of coquí frogs.

4 months ago

Listen 1:29
‘Libertad (Freedom)’ by Justin Favela (Mark Henninger/Imagic Digital)
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

6 GIFs that let you experience the fantastic outdoor art at the tip of South Philadelphia

The Navy Yard installation by Group X is up till the day before Election Day.

4 months ago

Woman wearing a shirt that says 'The future is accessible'
PlanPhilly
Community

‘I’m not included here’: People with disabilities face barriers to voting in Philly and beyond

If as many people with disabilities turned out to vote as those without, then the 2018 midterm election would’ve recorded a whopping 2.35 million more votes.

4 months ago

A student attends school virtually in North Philly
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Eyes on the Street

Pandemic exposes Philly’s opportunity deserts. City Hall can fix that

As we face the isolating forces of an online school year, is Philadelphia doing everything it can do to help families tap into our collective civic assets?

5 months ago

Ana Mosquera
Arts & Entertainment

Cherry Street Pier opens its largest public art exhibition since pandemic began

An exhibition of artwork by recent MFA graduates experiments with sound, video, performance, and sculpture to engage the public during a pandemic.

5 months ago

Marsha Reid, executive director of Kindred Arts, with the
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‘Lend power to the community’: A 28-foot Afro pick takes over a 52nd St. lot

A touring exhibit is bringing the Afro pick to cities across the U.S. ahead of the November election, to continue conversations about racial injustice.

5 months ago

Two woman paint overlooking the lake at FDR Park. (Courtesy Friends of FDR Park)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Upside to Philly’s tailgating ban? FDR Park free of cars and noise, nature lovers say

The South Philadelphia park located near Lincoln Financial Field is closed to cars on Sunday because of the ban on tailgating. Nature lovers aren’t mad about it.

5 months ago

Architects say making the office more like the outdoors — with filtered air and good ventilation — will be a priority post-pandemic. This living wall in the Danielle N. Ripich Commons at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine, is one such approach. (Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)
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Community

Redesigning the office for the next 100-year-flu (yes, it’s coming)

NPR spoke with five experts on workplace design to hear what they think small offices as well as high-rises will look like in five years.

5 months ago

University of the Arts seniors Andrew Malabunga and Miranda Pilato rehearse
Arts & Entertainment

Hard-hat harmonies: Music returns to (and above) the Avenue of the Arts

With its theaters closed for six months and counting, the avenue will ring out with music again as performers perch high up in a half-finished building.

5 months ago

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A fisherman walks along the Schuylkill River Trail at Bartram's Gardens. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

The theater of walking: Short hikes can change your world

At a time when more people are walking for exercise or fun, a series of stories tries to get more of Philly out on trails.

6 months ago

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  • Families stand in line at Philadelphia School District headquarters to pick up Chromebooks ahead of the start of the school year in September 2020. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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  • People with appointments wait in line at Philadelphia's first standing city-run COVID-19 vaccination clinic, which opened at the Martin Luther King Jr. Older Adult Center on Cecil B. Moore Avenue, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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    Philly’s vaccine supply flowing to some wealthy suburbs 4 times faster than many city neighborhoods

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