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A man looks at a red granite sphinx in the Egypt gallery at the Penn Museum
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

After a century in the limelight, ancient Egyptian sphinx going back into hiding

Penn Museum's iconic, 3,200-year-old Egyptian sphinx will disappear for several years, starting Monday, while its gallery undergoes renovations.

8 years ago

Listen 2:10
Participants take part in a Les Mills class at the Resurrection Center Church in Wilmington. (Andrea Gibbs/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Lifestyle

A Wilmington church gets its congregation moving

It's Thursday evening. The work day is over and people are filing into the Resurrection Center in Wilmington.

8 years ago

Listen 4:01
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (Noah K. Murray/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Transgender people in N.J. can now alter birth certificates without doctor signing off

Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law this week permitting transgender people to change the gender listed on the document by simply filling out a form.

8 years ago

Protesters camped outside Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices at 8th and Cherry streets are demanding that Mayor Jim Kenney end the city's data sharing contract with ICE.
Politics & Policy

Protesters demand end of Philly’s contract with ICE

The city's contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement grants the agency access to the Preliminary Arraignment Reporting System, a real-time arrest database.

8 years ago

Listen 1:58
Flooding at 10th and Walnut streets after a water main break has flooded several Center City streets. (Trenae Nuri/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Damages from water-main break expected to exceed $500,000 liability limit

Since a massive water-main break flooded the streets of Midtown Village Tuesday morning, Kate Moroney Miller has had one really bad Time.

8 years ago

Listen 2:04
Inside Insite, North America’s first public supervised injection facility, located in Vancouver. Photo by Elana Gordon/WHYY
The Pulse
Health

Lessons from Vancouver: U.S. cities consider supervised injection facilities

Vancouver is home to North America’s first, public supervised injection facility — and an explosion of spin-offs designed to prevent overdose deaths.

8 years ago

Listen 35:14
The former GM plant near Newport, Delaware has been vacant since 2009. New plans for a logistics and fulfillment center at the site could bring 2,000 new jobs to the area. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
First
Community

Hopes for rebirth at former Delaware auto plant

After a decade of dormancy, the former GM vehicle assembly plant near Newport is about to get a multi-million dollar overhaul.

8 years ago

Listen 5:32
Thirteen children from seven nations took the Oath of Allegience to become U.S. citizens during a naturalization ceremony at the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia.
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

America’s youngest citizens reflect on patriotism at Philly naturalization ceremony

“It’s just respecting your country, even if you don’t agree with everything that is going on or everything that is said," said Kayla Davis of West Philly.

8 years ago

Listen 2:48
Plastic trash is deposited at the high tide line at Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, where local merchants are banned from using plastic straws, styrofoam food containers, and plastic bags. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Monmouth Beach ban on plastics — most comprehensive in N.J. — off to smooth start

Merchants say there's been a period of adjustment since the ban started June 1, but most customers are taking it in stride.

8 years ago

Listen 5:53
Wharton-Wesley United Methodist Church in Southwest Philadelphia has been selected as a prototype for Infill Philadelphia's Sacred Places/Civic Spaces design challenge.
Community

From sacred to civic, new life for old Philly churches

Philadelphia has seen its share of old church buildings neglected and even torn down, but a new collaboration seeks to transform them into community assets.

8 years ago

Listen 5:59
Demonstrators protest ICE outside of the office at Eighth and Cherry streets in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Overnight protesters stake out ICE building, demand changes in immigration policies

Philadelphia police arrest 29 demonstrators who refused to move from the entrance to the federal facility at Eighth and Cherry streets.

8 years ago

Listen 2:03
Located in a remote spot on the Delaware River tubing route, the Famouse River Hot Dog Man is the only game in town for tubers, whose lazy journeys can last four to six hours.
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

24 days of summer: The business of being the Famous River Hot Dog Man

Since 1987, Greg Crance has run a hot dog stand in the middle of the Delaware River. It's a beautiful office, but a fickle business.

8 years ago

Listen 4:23
Cadets color guard members move to the field before their first home performance in 2018. (Jessica Griffin, Inquirer/Daily News)
Community

Allentown’s famed Cadets rise again after months of scandal and tumult

Some had worried a #MeToo scandal would be fatal for one of the nation’s oldest and most decorated drum corps.

8 years ago

Listen 8:36
Oyster Creek was New Jersey's first nuclear generation station, opened in 1967. It will shut down Sept. 17. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

NRC: $1.4 billion closing of Oyster Creek nuclear plant will take nearly 60 years

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission stresses precautions, safety measures in place as N.J. plant prepares for Sept. 17 shutdown. Decontamination won't begin until 2075.

8 years ago

Listen 2:26
Kenan Nameli (left) and other workshop participants at the Kensington Storefront. Nameli lives in a nearby abandoned building, struggles with addiction, and said he has tried to enter into recovery a number of times. (Steve Weinik/Mural Arts)
Health

At Kensington Storefront, those struggling with addiction get to tell their stories

Sharing personal narratives can help the storytellers see some of the good in their lives amid the trauma.

8 years ago

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