This week, Massachusetts passed legislation that helps achieve equal pay for equal work. So, how do Pennsylvania's women fare?

It's summer Shakespeare season, and Anndee Hochman asks why we keep turning to the bard. She also thinks she knows the answer.

When composer Kile Smith needed to dig some tree roots out of his side yard, he had no idea how deep they'd go.

Stephen Silver visits Philadelphia 2016's 'PoliticalFest' exhibitions and learns what can and cannot be taught in a museum's display.

Philadelphia bartenders, we know you're freaking out about the coming influx of DNC conventioneers. Never fear, BSR has you covered with some last-minute creative cocktail suggestions.

In advance of the Democratic National Convention, a tour of three historic Fairmount Park homes tells the stories of our nation's painful birth.

In part two of Treacy Ziegler's two-part series on Eastern State Penitentiary's current exhibitions, she examines the stories behind the displays and asks more questions than the museum can answer.

Kile Smith was a WRTI-FM deejay for 10 years. He never did figure out how to pronounce that one name.

Artist and prison volunteer Treacy Ziegler looks at Eastern State Penitentiary's 2016-2017 artist installations and wonders what is gained and lost by gallerizing incarceration.

The Juneteenth Freedom Lecture inspired Margaret Darby to consider Nat Turner's legacy, fact and fiction in the rebooted 'Roots,' and Nate Parker's upcoming 'Birth of a Nation.'