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Changing the climate at the Philadelphia Flower Show
Not just another pretty vase
This year’s Philadelphia Flower Show is a pleasant trip to tulip time in Holland. But how does all this play out with global warming and a climate-denying new EPA chief? A.D. Amorosi puts on the wooden shoes and reports.
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Philadelphia Writers Resist tackles NEA/NEH funding cuts
Writers go live
Organizers must get off the Internet and into a room together. Philly’s Writers Resist is about to take it to the streets. Alaina Mabaso reports.
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MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger presents 'This Is Hunger'
Empty plates in the land of plenty
MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger spent three years researching, photographing, and interviewing subjects for a traveling exhibition on US hunger, housed in a trailer. Anndee Hochman goes inside.
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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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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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