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The National Endowment for the Arts funds programs throughout Philadelphia, such as the Mural Arts Program. "Women of Progress," mural by Cesar Riveros and Larissa Preston at 13th and Locust Streets. (Photo by Erik Anestad via Creative Commons/Flickr)

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.

Alaina Johns

Mar 13, 2017 Essays 4 minute read

Photographer Barbara Grover knew about hunger in Third World countries, but after her three-year odyssey taking pictures for 'This Is Hunger,' she wondered, "How can this happen in America?" (Photo by Barbara Grover, 2016, courtesy of MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger)

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.

Anndee Hochman

Mar 07, 2017 Essays 4 minute read

Kapoor at home on her old upright Yamaha. (Photo courtesy of Shaila Kapoor)

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.

Shaila Kapoor

Mar 03, 2017 Essays 6 minute read

Proud father, happy son. (Photo by Benjamin Lloyd)

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.

Benjamin Lloyd

Feb 27, 2017 Essays 5 minute read

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The Zephyr's dining car, where Ortiz broke bread with her fellow travelers. (Photo via Creative Commons/Wikimedia)

Erlina Ortiz rides the Zephyr on an Amtrak Writer's Residency

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.

Erlina Ortiz

Feb 19, 2017 Essays 5 minute read

Mary Tuomanen, Jean Seberg, and Jean-Paul Belmondo connect the dots. (Photo by Daryl Peveto)

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.

Anndee Hochman

Feb 04, 2017 Essays 4 minute read

Mabaso's new friends, Jefferson med students Dan and Kayer, on their way to the airport protest. (Photo by Alaina Mabaso)

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.

Alaina Johns

Jan 31, 2017 Essays 5 minute read

We Pennsylvanians have seen this before. 1903 'Tacoma Times' editorial cartoon by Bob Satterfield. (Image via Creative Commons/Wikimedia)

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.

Rick Soisson

Jan 30, 2017 Essays 3 minute read

Stop or be stopped. (Photo by JSeliger2 via Creative Commons/Flickr)

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.