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A culinary educator and local dining expert breaks down Michelin’s debut...

Jonathan Deutsch, Drexel University Working in restaurants is physically, mentally and emotionally taxing and often thankless work. So it...

George Plimpton’s 1966 nonfiction classic ‘Paper Lion’ revealed the bruising truths...

Stephen Siff, Miami University As the Detroit Lions barrel toward a Thanksgiving Day game with the Green Bay Packers,...

Mid-Atlantic mushroom foragers collect 160 species for food, medicine, art and science

Amy Wrobleski, Penn State Like many mushroom harvesters, I got interested in foraging for fungi during the COVID-19 pandemic.

What is Fusarium graminearum, the fungus a Chinese scientist pleaded guilty...

Tom W. Allen, Mississippi State University A Chinese plant scientist at the University of Michigan who drew national attention...
Former mob boss John Stanfa, pictured here in 1980, waged a bloody war for control of the Philadelphia mafia in the late 1990s. Bettmann via Getty Images

How mobsters’ own words brought down Philly’s mafia − a veteran...

George Anastasia, Rowan University The bloody mob war that is the focus of the new Netflix series “Mob War:...

Denver study shows removing parking requirements results in more affordable housing...

Susan D. Daggett, University of Denver and Stefan Chavez-Norgaard, University of Denver Removing parking requirements for new buildings could...
Do the seemingly endless doorways represent a woman trapped in domesticity or infinite ways out? Philadelphia Museum of Art

How Dorothea Tanning’s ‘Birthday’ painting challenged male-dominated surrealism

Sally Jane Brown, West Virginia University When American artist Dorothea Tanning painted “Birthday” in 1942, she announced her arrival...

New website tracks how Pennsylvania’s $2.2B in opioid settlement funds is...

Jonathan Larsen, Temple University; Amy Yeung, Penn State; Dennis Scanlon, Penn State, and Renee Cloutier, University of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania...

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