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Experience: Making Music with a \"Stomp Box\" Experience: Making Music with a "Stomp Box"
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Video duration: 209 seconds

South Philadelphia's Rick Iannacone has played guitar for a generation, often accompanying legends in rock and jazz. He created a unique sound by mastering a special-effects pedal nick-named the "stomp box."
Part of WHYY's Experience series.

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Experience: Artist Isaiah Zagar Experience: Artist Isaiah Zagar
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Video duration: 210 seconds

A visit with Isaiah Zagar, longtime artist-visionary and Philadelphia mosaic artist. Zagar describes the beginnings of the Eyes Gallery, founded with his wife, Julia, and tours his "Magic Garden," on South Street in Center City Philadelphia.

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The Philly Food Show: Salt Water Taffy The Philly Food Show: Salt Water Taffy
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Video duration: 101 seconds

If you've ever wondered how they put the swirl into fruit-flavored salt water taffy, the secret can now be revealed. On October 2nd, 2007, we visited the Atlantic City facility where they make Fralinger's and James' Salt Water Taffy, and followed the process from beginning to end. Take a look at this video, which features a whole lot of automated pushing and pulling...

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The Philly Food Show: Soft Pretzels The Philly Food Show: Soft Pretzels
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Video duration: 116 seconds

Remember what you were doing at 4:00 in the morning on October 17th, 2007? Didn't think so. But the producers and camera crew of The Philly Food Show remember: we were in the bakery area of the Center City Soft Pretzel Company, eavesdropping on the process of turning 450 pounds of yeasty dough into 1,700 pretzels. Watch the pretzel makers at work while the rest of us sleep.

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The Philly Food Show: Mushrooms The Philly Food Show: Mushrooms
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Video duration: 79 seconds

Picture yourself a city boy visiting the country to learn about mushroom farming. What's a logical question to ask of the farmer? "So, where are the mushroom fields?" That's the sort of boneheaded query to tax the patience of even the most indulgent host; in this case, our host is Chris Alonzo, who runs Pietro Industries, Inc. of Kennett Square.

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WHYY Arts and Culture Desk: Fraktur WHYY Arts and Culture Desk: Fraktur
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Video duration: 210 seconds

Fraktur is an art form of the Pennsylvania German community. It's a style that is older than the United States itself and continues to this day.
The Mennonite Heritage Center in Harleysville, PA is currently showing an exhibit of contemporary Fraktur art.
Their website is http://www.mhep.org.

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Reaction to the Vice Presidential Debate Reaction to the Vice Presidential Debate
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Video duration: 103 seconds

We venture onto the campus of Temple University to ask students their reactions to the Vice Presidential debate.

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The Boss on the Parkway The Boss on the Parkway
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Video duration: 107 seconds

Bruce Springsteen played a seven song acoustic set on Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway. It was a free concert and was a voter registration drive the Obama campaign.

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The Philly Food Show: Tastykake The Philly Food Show: Tastykake
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Video duration: 43 seconds

Probably the biggest and most influential of the foodies we visited on The Philly Food Show is Tastykake, which has been supplying snack cakes and pies to the East Coast for nearly a century. Here's a couple of vintage Tastykake commercials including one with a young actress who would go on to greater renown on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Golden Girls.

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It\ It's Our City: How's Mayor Nutter doing?
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Video duration: 76 seconds

WHYY's Its Our City went looking for the answer to this question.

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The Philly Food Show: Ice Cream The Philly Food Show: Ice Cream
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Video duration: 66 seconds

Philadelphia has always been an ice cream capital, and there's a distinctive style to Philadelphia ice cream that sets it apart. Take a look as food historian William Woys Weaver, then Mike Strange of Bassett's explain what make our local ice cream special.

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It\ It's Our City: Philadelphia Reacts to Population Loss Report
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Video duration: 270 seconds

www.whyy.org/city

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Why Stay in Philadelphia? Why Stay in Philadelphia?
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Video duration: 170 seconds

Musicians Mike Casalaina and Nick Millevoi perform and talk about why they're staying in Philadelphia

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MTV fails with Philly debate watching party MTV fails with Philly debate watching party
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Video duration: 88 seconds

On Sept 26, 2008 MTV tried to throw a debate watching party for the first Presidential Debate. Unfortunately, few people showed.

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Phila Mayor Michael Nutter on Foxwoods Casino site Phila Mayor Michael Nutter on Foxwoods Casino site
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Video duration: 272 seconds

Foxwoods Casino suprised Philadelphia area residents on Sept 10th, 2008 by announcing they plan to seek a new location for a planned casino.

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