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Posted inFeature, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story

The Heart Wing

by Heather Lanier January 10, 2023January 18, 2023

The muscle that never stops, until the very end. Is your heart a hardworking pump or a mystic miracle?

Posted inEditor's Pick

Who Am I?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 23, 2021October 19, 2022

“Edwards isn’t sure how she came into this world, or when or where, but on Aug. 14, 1967, she was discovered inside a pillowcase hidden under a dresser in a vacant apartment of an otherwise occupied West Philadelphia rowhouse.”

Posted inFeatured

Find Yourself

by Elizabeth Isadora Gold September 30, 2020November 4, 2022

From way back in ’80s Philadelphia, Elizabeth Isadora Gold remembers her first writing teacher, the mail art artist/lyricist Stu Horn.

Posted ineducation, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Technology

‘I Was Restricting Myself to This One Country All This Time’: An Immigrant’s Search for Work in the U.S.

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 24, 2019October 19, 2022

As a result of Trump-era immigration policies, fewer highly skilled and educated legal immigrants — like 26-year-old Akirt Sridharan from India — are being hired by U.S. companies, despite their qualifications.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Immigrant on My Couch

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 22, 2019October 19, 2022

As a result of Trump-era immigration policies, fewer highly skilled and educated legal immigrants — like 26-year-old Akirt Sridharan from India — are being hired by U.S. companies despite their qualifications.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

The Importance of Philadelphia to the Work of David Lynch

by juliawick April 20, 2015October 19, 2022

Philadelphia looms large in the personal mythology of David Lynch as a place that both terrorized him and changed the course of his life, his Gomorrah and his Rubicon in one. A product of small-town America, Lynch credits this onetime epicenter of urban blight with instilling in him a fear and disgust so extreme it […]

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