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ThinkFest Video: Josh Kopelman

The growing start-up community in Philadelphia is a major point of interest in this interview with First Round Capital founding partner, Josh Kopelman, and Philadelphia […]

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ThinkFest Video: R. Eric Thomas

Playwright and stand-up dramedian, R. Eric Thomas, shares a life-changing moment of creative enlightenment through meeting his personal idol, Patti LaBelle. Living in Baltimore and […]

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ThinkFest Video: Pig Iron Theatre Company, Pt. 2

“What kind of world would you like to live in, in 200 years?” Benjamin Franklin asks the big questions, but would you expect anything less […]

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ThinkFest Video: Pig Iron Theatre Company, Pt. 1

“As actors, this is our job to say today I’m going to be somebody else, I’m going to see the world from a different perspective, […]

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ThinkFest Video: Frank Lee

Remember that game of Pong on the Cira Centre? Frank Lee helped create that Guinness Record winning, world’s largest video game. As Associate Professor of […]

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ThinkFest Video: Tracey Welson-Rossman

“The next Steve Jobs will be a girl.” That’s the motto of TechGirlz founder Tracey Welson-Rossman. Yet there is still a major lack of women […]

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ThinkFest Video: M. Night Shyamalan

Screenwriter, film director, producer, and Philadelphia native M. Night Shyamalan takes on the education problems in Philadelphia after publishing his first book, I Got Schooled: […]

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ThinkFest Video: Kathleen Kane

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane, who declined to defend PA’s Marriage Equality Ban, champions a progressive movement towards LGBT and educational equality in Pennsylvania. Kane […]

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ThinkFest Video: Lauren Boggi

Lauren Boggi, cheerleader-turned founder and CEO of Lithe Method, brings her energy to the stage, introducing audiences to the “guiding light” of branding by utilizing […]

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How Paul Levy Created Center City

The smell. what could he do about the smell? It was 1989, and Ron Rubin, the developer and quintessential Philadelphia power player, was lobbying Tiffany […]

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A New Life for the Old Boyd Theatre

It hosted the likes of Grace Kelly, Mario Lanza and Charlton Heston. But I’m guessing that no premiere at the Boyd Theatre—built in 1928 and […]

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The Death of the Funeral Business

Over the summer, my 98-year-old Aunt Elizabeth passed away, after a long, full life. In the wake (heh) of her memorial service, I got a […]

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Heidi Hamels Is More Than Just Mrs. Cole Hamels

Heidi Hamels will hate the way this story begins. But this is where her story must begin, because without it, the farm girl never becomes […]

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Restaurant Review: Next-Level Comfort Food at Little Nonna’s

On the first day, there were white tablecloths. People dressed for restaurants the way they did for Pan Am Stratocruisers, and entrées arrived beneath silver […]

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Philadelphia’s Millennial Revolution

That’s right, revolution. More than four out of 10 residents in Greater Center City are between the ages of 18 and 34—and they’re only growing […]