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Can a revived '80s TV classic lead Philly back to the dance floor?
In the '80s, Dancin' on Air was a local television sensation filled with quaintly tacky fashions and sprayed-high hair-don'ts, a program where smiling high school kids grooved to chart-topping dance music and hip-pop. Now this quaint-seeming concept is getting a second life, but is nostalgia enough to make people tune in?
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Dispatches from Tom Corbett's war on Philly.
City Paper has learned that cuts implemented under Corbett have had a far deeper impact on almost every service the state provides to Philadelphians — including education; health care for the poor and disabled; welfare; food stamps; and support services for victims of domestic violence, the disabled and the homeless — than has previously been reported.
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When it comes to disaster prep, Drexel professor Scott Knowles says we're screwed.
Knowles, associate professor of history and politics at Drexel, recently published The Disaster Experts, which traces the history of our disaster-policy priorities and the people who shape them. It's not a book that will make you sleep better.
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- Two Minutes With ... Rosemary Reeves
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Philly pianist Orrin Evans is on a campaign to bring jazz back to black audiences — but is he going too far?
"This is my crusade: to gain more African-American listeners How is that name gonna do it? I don't know. But what I do know is this name isn't working."
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From John Street protégé to City Council president.
Darrell Clarke's rise to the presidency of City Council is the outcome of years of careful maneuvering, subtle politicking and often-brilliant, hair-raising, last-minute deal-making.
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- Zoe Strauss, ultimate street photographer
How photographer Zoe Strauss went from the shadows of I-95 to the walls of the Art Museum.
"It was never figuring out a way to force making an image," she says. "It was the way the images presented themselves."
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Academy of Vocal Arts: Verdi's Oberto | Orchestra 2001: Voices from the Heartland | Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia | The New York Philharmonic | Network for New Music, with the Mendelssohn Club Singers | Jerusalem String Quartet | Opera Company of Philadelphia: Henze's Elegy for Young Lover | The Philadelphia Orchestra
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Performance Garage Open House | Brian Sanders' Junk | Inbal Pinto & Co. | Pennsylvania Ballet's Messiah | BalletX | Pennsylvania Ballet's Peter Pan
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Francisco Mela and Cuban Safari | Chucho Valdés and the Afro-Cuban Jazz Messengers | Dave Burrell & Han Bennin | Bill Frisell's Beautiful Dreamers | David "Fuze" Fiuczynski | Randy Weston Quintet | Eddie Palmieri Latin Jazz Band | Nicholas Payton | Tigran Hamasyan | Terell Stafford Quintet | Robert Glasper Experiment | Matthew Shipp Trio | Cyro Baptista | Christian McBride & The Thelonius Monk All Star Sextet | Steven Bernstein's MTO | Endangered Blood | Kurt Elling | Bobby Zankel's Warriors of the Wonderful Sound
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Talib Kweli/Res | Man Man | Jeff Mangum | Megadeth | Aimee Mann | Sugar Town's 11th anniversary | Die Antwoord | Sharon Van Etten | Umphrey's McGee | Slow Club | Saul Williams | Magnetic Fields | Black Keys | Dr. Dog | First Aid Kit | Wild Flag | Wu Lyf
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