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Poet Ursula Rucker and guitarist Tim Motzer, longtime Philadelphia-based collaborators, will perform Friday as part of the ...

Ric Burns’ new documentary “Debt of Honor” screens tonight at WHYY and will be released to the public on November 10. & ...

Have you ever thought about what makes a face feminine? According to one of the surgeons who pioneered facial feminization surgery, what ...

‘Community paramedicine’ aims to keep patients out of the ER. Nancy Nolan is wearing a neon-pinkish-sort-of-creamsicle ...

‘Death geeks’ (yep, that’s a thing) find a home. Several hundred people from around the world convened in Philad ...

Filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert are “explorers in residence” for National Geographic — they have lived in Botswana fo ...

How a “Yelp for funerals” can help lower the costs and hassles associated with the end of one’s life. Any decent ...

Sociologist Margee Kerr has been a thrill seeker since she was a kid. She remembers her first haunted house at age six — it was at her ...

The world-record pumpkin weighs almost double what it did ten years ago, due, in part, to growers sharing their secrets.  In ...

Phaithoun Feuachanthala looks like a man at peace when he’s chanting. He’s sitting at the feet of a big Buddha statue. His ro ...

Other states have systems in place to track and control prescribing of powerful mood-altering medications. Pennsylvania is lagging ...

Few neurological disorders are as widely known and misunderstood as Tourette syndrome. Few neurological disorders are as widely kn ...

Buried, burned…eaten by birds. We are defined by our final resting place. Every culture has their own unique ways of dealing ...

Friday Arts explores uncommon sights in the city with The Wagner Free Institute of Science, The Berley Brothers, and The Divine Hand Ense ...

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