In this July 1999 file photo, Clarence Clemmons, left, plays the sax as Bruce Springsteen plays the harmonica with the E Street Band. (Bill Kostroun/AP Photo, file)
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Historian Robert Caro published his first book about Lyndon Johnson thirty years ago. Volumes two and three were published in 1990 and 2002 and the fourth volume, Passage to Power, was released several weeks ago.
Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, whose classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are became a perennial and award-winning favorite for generations of children, died Tuesday. He was 83.
UPDATE: April 29 — NewsWorks.org live-tweeted Sunday's "Reinventing Radio" featuring Ira Glass, host and executive producer of "This American Live" at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton.
An entire block of Melon Street in West Philadelphia went through a profound transformation. A group of teenagers worked with artists, counselors and teachers to explore the meaning of "home." The young people's photos and stories inspired public health researchers to look closely at an aspect of urban teenage life that is dangerous and under-reported.
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A long-time fan of Garrison Keillor and his "A Prairie Home Companion" radio show, Mt. Airy native Jim Harris, well-known to locals as a humor columnist for the Chestnut Hill Local newspaper, has decided to take a page out of Keillor's book and bring the More »
