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Rare Books Dealer Turns a Page at Frankford Arsenal
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Rare Books Dealer Turns a Page at Frankford Arsenal

A 200-year-old munitions storehouse in Northeast Philadelphia finds peaceful reuse as an antiquarian showroom. Stacia Friedman has the details

Shakespeare & Co. Brings Old Bank Back To Life
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Shakespeare & Co. Brings Old Bank Back To Life

Manhattan-based bookstore and café revives an old banking storefront in Rittenhouse Square. Michael Bixler takes a look

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Marc Lamont Hill Energizes Germantown Ave With New Bookstore Cafe

Academic, activist, and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill carries the tradition of the Black-owned bookstore into the 21st century with Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee and Books. John Henry Scott has the details

Books Take Stage In A Former Theater In Port Richmond
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Books Take Stage In A Former Theater In Port Richmond

So many of the old neighborhood theaters have been razed, but some live on, reincarnated. New contributor Devon McReynolds has the story of the Richmond, now a retail and community space impossibly crammed with books


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