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NewsWorks Tonight

For local business leader Harold T. Epps, Dr. King’s iconic ‘dream speech’ still resonates

When Harold T. Epps, president and CEO of a Philadelphia business-services company, was growing up in North Carolina, he a played an impo ...

13 years ago

Friday Arts
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We Heart 13th Street

Art of Food — Produced by Monica Rogozinski This summer, entrepreneurs Chef Marcie Turney and Valerie Safran, will add to thei ...

13 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

Reporter says NJTransit didn’t follow own plan to protect equipment during Sandy

The Bergen Record’s Karen Rouse discusses why trains were moved to low-lying areas before the arrival of Superstorm Sandy. Rouse s ...

13 years ago

Petty Officer First Class Jarrod Bohler of the U.S. Coast Guard.
NewsWorks Tonight

U.S. Coast Guard still on the job in Philly

Remember the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard?  The Willow Grove Naval Air Station?  As the U.S. military consolidates its operation ...

13 years ago

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Post-Sandy devastation. (Courtesy of Ben Kalina)
NewsWorks Tonight

Film explores a post-Sandy Shore

Documenatry film director  Ben Kalina, of Philadelphia, discusses his new film about the Jersey Shore with NewsWorks Host Dave Helle ...

13 years ago

Friday Arts
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Martha Graham Cracker

Art of Life — Produced by Karen Smyles Some people know him only as Dito van Reigersberg, but many others are lucky enough to ...

13 years ago

Neisha Rose says that real forensic science does not happen as fast as it does on TV. (Jeanette Woods/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight

Forget about “CSI”, real forensic scientist says job is not like TV

Are you the kind of person who likes a good mystery? Are you driven to figure out the puzzle?  Do you think all will be revealed thr ...

13 years ago

Rita Denmark
NewsWorks Tonight

Guardianship cases can turn into nightmares for wards and their families

Maybe you know an older person suffering from Alzheimer’s or an adult who is intellectually disabled. In the best cases, a family m ...

13 years ago

Friday Arts
Arts & Entertainment

Cornelius Varley and his Fantastical Patent Graphic Telescope Machine

Art — Produced by Michael O’Reilly When Lewis Carroll sent Alice down the rabbit hole, he imagined a drink that would make h ...

13 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

Reporter’s Roundtable: Voter ID trial comes to a close, new hospitals report is just a piece of the puzzle

The high profile trial over Pennsylvania’s Voter ID law saw closing arguments this week.  And a new consumer reports ranking o ...

13 years ago

Friday Arts
Arts & Entertainment

August 2013

We Heart 13th Street Art of Food — Produced by Monica Rogozinski This summer, entrepreneurs Chef Marcie Turney ...

13 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

What will online testing mean for students and districts?

We’re living in an online world. We shop online, bank online, and starting next year, many states, including Pennsylvania and New J ...

13 years ago

Matthew Feldman. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)
NewsWorks Tonight

Philly food truck keeps it local

These days, more and more cooks are swapping out the traditional kitchen for a set of wheels. This week on Recap, our guest lifts the hoo ...

13 years ago

Friday Arts
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Night Market

Art of Food — Produced by Monica Rogozinski The Food Trust brings healthy and fresh food to neighborhoods in Philadelphia that ...

13 years ago

This aerial photo shows the remains of a fertilizer plant destroyed by an explosion in West
NewsWorks Tonight

Troubling silence from Pa. on stores of ammonium nitrate

The West Texas fertilizer plant explosion in April claimed 15 lives, injuring some 200 more.  Pennsylvania has ample stores of ammon ...

13 years ago

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