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Bad to the Bone
When tracing your roots digs up a true crime story from the city’s gritty past. [more…]
Phila Stories by Bob McNulty
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When the Music Stopped
They played to win, they lived to serve, they died as heroes aboard the USS Arizona. [more…]
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Veterans Day Spotlight: Al Schmid
A tribute to an exceptional Philadelphian who fought bravely against global fascism [more…]
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Murder in Oak Lane
A twisted tale of toxic friendship, murder, and karmic justice [more…]
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Philly: Home of the Hit Job
The corrupt and gruesome tale of America’s first paid assassination. [more…]
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Sing Shady
Treetop choir loft fosters German folksong in Brewerytown, circa 1900s. [more…]
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Philadelphia Stories: Uncle Outlaw
The hard life and times of a favorite family felon [more…]
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Tragic Youth: Lost Victims of Industrialization
Young immigrant lives cut short in the factory panic of 1902. [more…]
Art & Entertainment
Wit and Whiskey: The Life of W.C. Fields
This top-hatted, hard-drinking, bulb-nosed fixture of Old Hollywood fame has surprisingly local roots [more…]
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Dock of Ages
Stories from Philadelphia’s immigration station, where a million+ new lives began. [more…]