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The piano: A lifelong love story
Key changes
Shaila Kapoor on loving, losing, and rediscovering the joy of music through the worn keys of her childhood piano.
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Parenting, LGBTQ+ issues, and the arts
Searching for the island of misfit toys
While the debate over trans kids' bathroom rights rages, Benjamin Lloyd watches his son blossom through the magic of his school's theater program.
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Erlina Ortiz rides the Zephyr on an Amtrak Writer's Residency
Brief encounters
Erlina Ortiz was awarded an Amtrak Writer's Residency and chose to take the Zephyr line from Chicago to San Francisco just a few days after the presidential inauguration. She found a few surprises in Trump's United States.
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Finding solidarity onstage and on the page
Acting the part
When Anndee Hochman found herself looking for inspiration, she turned to poetry and plays. It worked.
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The "Muslim ban" protest at Philadelphia International Airport
When Philly marches, big city becomes small town
When Alaina Mabaso went to Philadelphia International Airport to protest the Trump administration's "Muslim ban," she found both kinship and community.
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NPR won't chase a presidential lie
Dreck, lies, and audiotape
NPR has decided its correspondents should not to refer to President Donald Trump's lies as "lies." Rick Soisson sees a problem with that decision.
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3 minute read
The joy of signal jamming
Karma chameleon
Roz Warren doesn't mind breaking the law, as long as it's for a good cause. She has determined that stopping cellphone abusers is definitely a good cause.
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3 minute read
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Celebrating Chinese New Year 2017/4715 in Philadelphia's Chinatown
Gung hay fat choy
Melody Wong explains everything you've ever wanted to know about the Chinese New Year Lion Dance. (First things first: It's not a dragon).
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Philadelphia Writers Resist: United for Liberty
Now what?
Would the Philadelphia arm of Writers Resist teach us how to throw verbal Molotov cocktails or create a Twitter feed that would cause Trump to self-implode? Stacia Friedman considers.
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REP Radio podcast: Writers Resist coordinator Stephanie Feldman
Act up, write back
Darnelle Radford interviews Writers Resist Philadelphia coordinator Stephanie Feldman. They discuss this weekend's rally at the National Museum of American Jewish History and what writers can do to defend freedom of speech in the coming years.
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