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PHILADELPHIA — Mitt Romney ventured into one of Philadelphia’s poorest neighborhoods on Thursday, visiting a charter school to highlight his education proposals.West Philadelphia, notorious for its gang and crime problems and rampant poverty, is also home to the Universal Bluford Charter School, one of a network of schools in the city that target inner-city children. Continue Reading Romney rolled out his education platform for the first time on Wednesday, focusing on school choice and an expansion of charter schools for inner-city youth. He opted for a charter school that’s run by a Philadelphia-based non-profit and took over a troubled public school. But the charter school is on warning from the state because it hasn’t made academic progress in the first two years of its existence. ... Continue reading →

Start Date: 6/6/2012Start Time: 6:00 PM End Date: 6/6/2012End Time: 7:30 PM Event DescriptionJoin the engineers of the Philadelphia Sound as they discuss the legendary Sigma Sound Studios and the history of recording in Philadelphia. Sigma Sound Studios is one of America's most influential studios, creating a unique sound that is strongly associated with Philadelphia soul and eventually disco. Panelists include Sigma Sound Studios founder Joe Tarsia, Arthur Stoppe, Carl Paruolo, Jim Galgher and Mike Tarsia. Together, they have engineered the sounds of The O'Jays, Teddy Pendergrass, Patti Labelle, Lou Rawls, The Delfonics, B.B. King, The Jackson 5, Chubby Checker, The Trammps, Melba Moore, Madonna, Archie Bell, The Allman Brothers, Eric Clapton, George Benson, Gladys Knight and many more. David Bowie recorded nearly his entire ... Continue reading →

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UPDATE: Days in. MIchael Days, the popular editor who ran the Daily News from 2005 until early last year, is back at the helm. Daily News staffers burst into spontaneous applause when publisher Bob Hall announced that Days -- who in the interim had been managing editor of the Inquirer -- would be returning to the tabloid. Days assured the newsroom that his goal was the re-energize the spunky urban paper that has won three Pulitizer Prizes, including one for investigative reporting when Days ran the paper in 2010. Everything old is new again at the Daily News and Inquirer Building on North Broad Street. In a matter of a few short weeks, the new local owners of Philadelphia's newspapers have brought back former Inquirer ... Continue reading →