Protesters marched the streets of Philadelphia Monday evening for the sixth straight day taking a stand against police brutality. Starting at Broad Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue in North Philadelphia, about three-dozen protesters, many of whom are still in high school, held signs, chanted, and voiced their frustration about the relationship between police and many black people around America....
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Have you started playing the new Pokemon Go game? Well, it's been downloaded over 7.5 million times in the past week. But this isn't the same type of app or game that has you just stuck inside wasting time on. You have to actually get outside and wander around the real neighborhood to capture those digital monsters. It's call augmented reality. If you aren't playing you may have noticed an...
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July 9/10 - Michael Tearson's ATTIC - Words & Music John Hiatt, Part 1 - Mostly Love Songs
1) "Thinking of You" by Tracy Nelson
2) "The Way We Make a Broken Heart" by Rosanne Cash
3) "If I Can Love Somebody" by Marti Jones
4) "We Ran" by Katy Moffatt
5) "Icy Blue Heart" by Emmylou Harris with Bonnie Raitt
6) "Any Single Solitary Heart" by Kris...
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July 9/10 Playlist - Michael Tearson's Marconi Experiment
1) "Quite Rightly So" by Procol Harum (BBC)
2) "All the Madmen" by David Bowie
3) "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today" by Randy Newman with BBC Concert Orchestra
4) "It Happened Today" by Curved Air
5) "No Time to Live" by Traffic
6) "Shine On Brightly" by Procol Harum (BBC)
7) "The...
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Traffic around City Hall was stopped this morning. Two groups, Black Lives Matter and a white support group, disrupted traffic with a protest rally around City Hall at 8 this morning causing gridlock between the Vine Street Expressway and City Hall. Black Lives Matter and a group of white supporters called Showing Up For Racial Justice are planning to continue the peaceful protests that took...
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Thanks to loaned equipment from Amtrak, NJ Transit, and MARC in Maryland, there will be 1700 additional seats on SEPTA's Regional Rail lines come Monday morning. SEPTA released a new interim schedule Sunday night to reflect the addition of three borrowed locomotives and 18 passenger cars. Septa officials announced on July 3rd that the agency pulled 120 of its Silverliner V cars, due to a...
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Please join us this Saturday at Hilltop Park/Steel Field in the continuation of Haverford's Concert in the Park Summer Series with Ben Arnold and Scott McClatchy.
The Festivities begin at 6pm on Saturday, July 9th, and will continue until 9pm. Tickets are $10 each for adults and admission is free for children 12 and under.
Don't forget to bring your lawn chairs and...
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Twelve police officers were shot, five were killed by snipers at a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas yesterday. The coordinated attack from elevated positions involved multiple shooters. Three shooters are in custody and one was killed by police. Here in Philadelphia, police are preparing for a similar demonstration and protest tonight.
The 2017 NFL Draft is coming to...
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The State Department is reopening its investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. Given the Department of Justice has now made its announcement, the State Department intends to conduct its internal review. Earlier this week, FBI Director James Comey recommended that no charges be brought in the case, a finding that the Justice...
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The Secret Service has released a map detailing road closures and highway restrictions for the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. The convention will be held at the Wells Fargo Center in South Philly from July 25-28th. The road closures will start two days before the convention and end the day after. They will be in effect on July 23-29th. All of the road closures are...
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