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Watch René from RIM Café Make His Volcano Hot Chocolate and Talk about The American Dream

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A Dessert You Can't Refuse

The Cannoli King waxes poetic on the immigrant experience and power of food.

by JOE PINSKER

Navigating the Pointe

Step inside The Rosin Box, the magical Sansom ballet shoe emporium where ballerinas find the perfect fit.

by NINA WOLPOW

School of Hard Rock

Take a peek behind the scenes at Rock to the Future, the Fishtown afterschool program that lets kids work and play in the name of rock and roll.

by LUCY MCGUIGAN

Just Another Jolly Night

Amid the bachelorette sashes, inebriated middle–aged couples and underagers, two slightly graying men sit at matching grand pianos.

by JESSICA GOODMAN

Fighting Homelessness Step By Step

[media-credit name=" " align="alignright" width="273"][/media-credit]The front page of the November issue of One Step Away contains a number of accounts about the meaning of Thanksgiving.

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We All Live In A Fellow Submarine

The interior of Jody Pollock, Connie Sung, Adrienne Warrell and Harrison Haas’s house in Northern Liberties is fairly typical for recent college graduates. Four bikes lean against the wall in the dining room.

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Electioneering

Looking around College Hall 200, it seems that everyone at the debate between the Penn Democrats and College Republicans knows each other.

by JESSICA GOODMAN

Spook, Spook, Spookadelphia

We live in a scary time. An unstable economy, frequent natural disasters, the threat of terrorism.

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Puppets On Parade

It’s a sunny October afternoon in Clark Park.

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Hard Work Means More Play

Filing forty–odd kindergarteners in and out of the bathroom as quickly as possible is nothing to joke about.

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Behind the Scenes of Philadelphia's Most Successful Sports Teams

With the man who is all up in their business.

by HANNAH KEYSER

Behind the Scenes of Philadelphia’s Most Successful Sports Team

One Citizens Bank Way is quiet at 7:55 a.m. The door marked “Administrative Office” is locked. In 12 hours the 43,647 blue bleacher seats will be teeming with enthusiastic fans; the broadcast booth and newsroom will be abuzz; the dugouts and bullpens will be filled with pinstriped players and all attention will be focused on the diamond under the currently unlit lights.

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Philly Aids Thrift

The effect is best at dusk, when dramatic floodlighting tranforms the scene in the second story louver window from “display” to “spectacle.” A huge reproduction of one of Andy Warhol’s Marilyns gazes, with sultry nonchalance, out toward the South Street tourists.

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The 50 Things You Must Do Before You Graduate

You’ve been here a few weeks, freshmen, but don’t get comfortable. That only leads to a routine of weekly Smoke’s and Kappa Whatever visits when there are a million more things to do around Penn and Philly.

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Form And Function

Apart from the mounted fire extinguisher and pack of Camel Lights on the table, Sean Gilvey’s studio feels straight out of a bygone era.

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This One Time At Fling

It's Fling, you're drunk. You have all weekend to try to top these premium moments from Flings past.

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The Mighty Ones

It’s 3 p.m. at Mighty Writers and everyone is in motion. Two eighth grade boys are hunched over a computer, fighting over which Pandora station to play.

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Best Of Penn 2010

Our generation as a tendency toward the superlative. You’re taking the stupidest class, your trip was the amazingest vacation ever, and that eager beaver in your seminar is just the worst. Half of us posed for Most Likely to Succeed in our yearbooks when all we really wanted to win was Hottest Hottie.

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A Larp In The Park

"A battle cry fills Clark Park." “WHAT’S THE GREATEST HONOR?” shouts one man, holding a pair of black foam daggers. “DYING WELL!” replies a group of sixty soldiers. They split into two teams and retreat to opposite ends of the park.

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