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A performer at last year's Juice: A Summerfest for Queer/Trans Women of Color. The event, hosted at Life Do Grow Farm in North Philadelphia, aims to create a more inclusive Pride. (Photo: Shanel Edwards)
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Celebrate Pride Month by returning to its roots – June 2018

The first Pride was a protest, not a party. After the parade, check out some of these events, which honor the political roots of the festival.

7 years ago

In late August following a prison lockdown, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections halted book donations from organizations as well as inmates’ families and friends Now, the DOC is letting book donation groups communicate with inmates, and family and friends can buy books directly through publishers. (StudioDin/BigStock)
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Cookbooks, comics, and capitalism: Book clubs for every reader

Choose your own adventure with these book club offerings in Philadelphia and beyond.

7 years ago

 (photo courtesy Dogfish Head Beer Facebook page)
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A guide to Philly Beer Week for the beer novice – June 1-10, 2018

The 10-day festival, devoted to all things beer, returns Friday with hundreds of events spotlighting various brewers, styles, and food pairings, all across the city.

7 years ago

Business owners Bennie and Esther Broomer were honored with a street-naming ceremony. (Zoe Read/WHYY)
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Wilmington dubs street corner in honor of longtime ice cream shop owners

Mayor Mike Purzycki signed an executive order declaring the corner of Eighth and Church as “Bennie & Esther H. Broomer’s Way” with a new street sign.

7 years ago

After the weather cleared the South Philly team made another attempt to climb the grease pole. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
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No Super Bowl needed: Grease pole tradition continues at Philly’s 9th Street Market

The grease pole tradition continued on Sunday in South Philadelphia, but this time in a sanctioned competition at the annual 9th Street Italian Market Festival.

7 years ago

Paula Holloway belts out a song during a dress rehearsal of
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Gospel according to Oedipus: Greek myth resounds in African-American church

The black churches of Coatesville show Philadelphia how it's done in "Gospel at Colonus."

7 years ago

A participant barrels through the mud pit at the 2018 Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Watch: 12th annual Kinetic Sculpture Derby, an energizing day in Kensington

Incessant rain didn’t keep neighbors inside at the 12th annual Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby.

7 years ago

An angler in Island Beach State Park. (Jennifer Husar)
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Governor’s Surf Fishing Tournament is Sunday at Island Beach State Park

The longstanding Jersey Shore tradition is slated for Sunday.

7 years ago

Scenes from the annual Wildwood Polar Bear Plunge. (Bastiaan Slabbers/for NewsWorks)
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2016 Wildwood Polar Bear Plunge [photos]

At precisely 1P.M. on Saturday costumed plungers, many dressed as Gene Simmons, Wolverine, Elvis, a bunch of Waldos, made a dash into the ...

9 years ago

Community members help fill in the decorative elements of what will become the 'Windows of Peace' part of the mural. (Bastiaan Slabbers/for NewsWorks)
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Mural project draws support for North Philly Muslims [photos]

The Al-Aqsa Islamic Society hosted a Community Paint Day Saturday, inviting members of the larger community to help paint a mural that wi ...

9 years ago

The Fralinger String Band concludes their performance at Broad and Sansom Streets. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY, file)
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Philadelphia celebrates New Year’s Day 2016 with 116th annual Mummers Parade [photos]

Outrageously costumed Mummers have strutted and twirled at Philadelphia’s annual New Year’s Day parade, a colorful celebratio ...

9 years ago

 Participants in the Homeless Memorial Day ceremony carry signs bearing the names of 127 homeless and formerly homeless people who died in 2013. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)
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Remembering those who died homeless on Philly’s streets

Violinist Shandi Beardsley played Pachebel’s Canon in D Minor, a personal favorite, as volunteers took turns at the microphone read ...

11 years ago

Festival goers dance to the rhythm of the Johnny Cruz Latin Ensemble at the 2013 Nuestro Barrio Fair.  (Elisabeth Perez Luna/WHYY)
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Scenes from Philly’s Latino Barrio festival

Philly's Latino Barrio festival draws crowds.

11 years ago

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Tattoo convention descends on Philadelphia

The Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention was last weekend at the Pa. Convention Center.  Tattoo artists from Amsterdam, Austin, Texas, Ne ...

13 years ago

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