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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...

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.
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:...
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...
The annual parade is an expression of love for both Puerto Rico and Philadelphia. Photo courtesy of VISIT PHILADELPHIA®

Philly’s Puerto Rican Day Parade embodies strength of the mainland’s second-largest...

Héctor M. Varela Rios, Villanova University Picture this: Puerto Rican flags, referred to as “la monoestrellada” – the “one-starred”...

You can be exposed to PFAS through food, water, even swimming...

Ruohao Zhang, Penn State; Jiameng Zheng, Louisiana State University ; Wendong Zhang, Cornell University, and Xibo Wan, University of Connecticut

Historian uncovers evidence of second mass grave of Irish immigrant railroaders...

William E. Watson, Immaculata University When commuters on the R5 SEPTA train that connects suburban Chester County to Philadelphia...

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