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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.
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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.

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Corruption probe suggests Philly-style politics has arrived in Allentown

Allentown mayor Ed Pawlowski’s aspirations to serve a fourth term took a hit Wednesday when the city’s former managing direct ...

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Philly election: How did the only person on the ballot get just 8%?

Tuesday’s special election for the 197th legislative district in Philadelphia is all the more unusual because the only candidate on ...

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 Statehouse rotunda in Trenton, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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Candidates struggle to be known in N.J. gubernatorial race

The race for governor in New Jersey is heating up. With the June 6 Primary looming the biggest challenge for the candidates right no ...

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Both a mom and a med student: one woman’s midlife career change

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 Head Consul Alicia Kerber-Palmer at the Mexican consulate in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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What the Mexican consulate is telling immigrants

Many among the roughly 200,000 Mexicans and people of Mexican descent living in the Philadelphia area are worried as the Trump administra ...

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Sharks aren’t just for boys: Gills Club inspires aspiring female biologists

It’s no secret that there are fewer women than men in a lot of STEM fields. One group is trying to target that problem by inspiring ...

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Game developer wants to take her cultural critique to Congress

Brianna Wu has been outspoken about sexism in male-dominated video game culture. Brianna Wu has loved video games ever since she w ...

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Novelist Zora Neale Hurston was a cultural anthropologist first

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How Zippo got burned doing business in China

The flame is burning a little less brightly for the iconic Zippo lighter. Manufactured since 1933 in Bradford, Pennsylvania, the company ...

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 Medical graduates from Iran, in Philadelphia on research fellowships, anxiously await results of their U.S. medical residency applications. The Trump administration's immigration executive order has put an added stressor on 'match week' for them.  (Elana Gordon/WHYY)
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Seriously, leave your earwax alone

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