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12/21/2018

Out of Thin Hair

An interview with writer and historian, Robert McCracken Peck

by Melinda Lewis

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12/14/2018

An Open Bookstore

Talking with the owners of A Novel Idea

by Melinda Lewis

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12/07/2018

A City on the Edge

It’s not so bad to be on the edge

by Stephen Gambescia

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11/15/2018

Out of Philadelphia

My journey to become a travel writer

by Thomas Swick

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09/21/2018

Learning from Robert Venturi

Remembering the influential architect

by Paula Marantz Cohen

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05/25/2018

Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City

Reveling in ruins with Nathaniel Popkin

by Daniel Dougherty

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07/31/2017

Philly Punk

Gender politics in the City of Brotherly Love

by Kevin Egan, Maren Larsen

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08/15/2016

Biking

A love story

by Mike Ingram

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07/13/2016

Philly’s Flagship Store

Insight into Philly’s punk-rock past

by Harriet Levin Millan

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02/29/2016

The Bite of the Devil Dog

The complicated politics of rabble rouser Smedley Butler

by Benjamin Welton

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