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Avi Wolfman-Arent

Philadelphia
As seen in: Studio 2 (Podcast), WHYY-FM (Philadelphia, PA), Here & Now Anytime, NPR, Albany Business Review, Bleacher Report, Philadelphia Business Journal, Sacramento Business Journal, The Business Journals, Penn Live Patriot-News, The Chronicle of Higher Education, WBUR-FM (Boston, MA) and
Reading news into a microphone @whyy, Philly's @npr station. Co-host of Studio 2, T-Th at noon. awolfmanarent at whyy dot org. RTs are retweets.
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Kurt Vile: Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me

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By Avi Wolfman-Arent
| WHYY-TV (Philadelphia, PA)
There are a lot of rockers from Philly. Patti Smith, Todd Rundgren, Hall and Oates. But if you’re asking which rocker is the most Philly, Kurt Vile is a strong contender. Over the last two decades, Vile’s melodic, trance-inducing tracks have won him national attention. Here in Philly, though, the Lansdowne native is something of a cult hero – with a mural along the El tracks to prove it.
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The glass armonica was invented by a Founding Father

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By Avi Wolfman-Arent
| Billy Penn
It’s the 1760s. A strange new instrument is sweeping European high society. The man who invented it? A Philadelphian. Let’s learn more in my 150th(!!!!) Headlines of Yore thread… Starting with a headline from the March 15 London Public Advertiser in 1762: “The Armonica.” That headline advertised an upcoming performance by a young musician named Marianne Davies. This was no ordinary performance, however, as Davies had recently debuted a new instrument: the armonica.
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French superstore Carrefour chose Philly for its U.S. debut. It didn't go well.

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By Avi Wolfman-Arent
| Billy Penn
One of the world’s largest retailers once tried to break into the U.S. by opening a mega store in Northeast Philly. It did not go well. We start with a headline from the February 1 issue of the Philadelphia Daily News in 1988: “Carrefour Opens Without Much Hype.” Based in France, Carrefour is a massive retail chain. The company operates more than 12,000 stores across 30 countries. For comparison, Walmart has just under 11,000 stores in 24 countries. So, yeah…it’s big.
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