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July 10, 2025

WXPN celebrates 40 years since Live Aid concert with all-day broadcast
WXPN is taking listeners on a musical time machine this Sunday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Live Aid, the …
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July 11, 2025

Inside the tense World Cafe Live town hall
At a tense public gathering at World Cafe Live, employees, artists, and community members confronted leadership over firings, union demands, …
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July 21, 2025

Philadelphia Folk Festival set to play for 62nd year
For the 62nd year, the Philadelphia Folk Festival will take the fields of Old Pool Farm.
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July 21, 2025

WXPN's World Cafe recognized with two awards from 2025 New York Festivals Radio Awards
Two hosts from WXPN at World Cafe were recognized in the 2025 New York Festivals Radio Awards
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August 19, 2025

Joe Hisaishi to return for two performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra
After three sold-out concerts in June, acclaimed composer Joe Hisaishi will reunite with The Philadelphia Orchestra for two November performances …
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October 3, 2025

Netflix To Offer Three-Part Docuseries Mob War: Philadelphia versus The Mafia
The docuseries portrays the internecine mob war in Philadelphia in the early 1990s.
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October 20, 2025

Nickels: When the sacred met the profane in Russia
When the members of Pussy Riot entered a Moscow cathedral in 2012, it was not to pray or to sit …
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January 21, 2026

Nickels: Joan Baez at 85
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January 23, 2026

Nickels: Don Lemon is living the narcissist's dream
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February 4, 2026

Nickels: Come for the music, stay for the virtue-signaling