
David Murrell
Writer at Freelance
Feature writer. Previously on staff @phillymag. Big fan of magazines.
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1 month ago |
phillymag.com | David Murrell
Longform Highway to Hell: Inside PennDOT’s Plan to Widen I-95 Through South Philly Everyone knows the construction of the interstate along the Delaware River waterfront 60 years ago was a catastrophe of urban planning. So why is the state planning to make the road even bigger?
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Nov 23, 2024 |
phillymag.com | David Murrell
Longform Can John Fry Revive Temple? The former Drexel president has built his legacy reshaping not just universities, but the neighborhoods they call home. Now comes his biggest undertaking yet: returning Temple to its former glory.
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Nov 7, 2024 |
stagewhispers.com.au | Jeremy Kareken |David Murrell |John D’Agata
It is sometimes ambitious for only three actors to hold the attention and interest of an audience for the duration of an entire play. This is not the case however with the Theatre on Chester’s latest offering, The Lifespan of a Fact. Karen Pattinson, Jordan Andrews and Martin Bell are all individually charismatic and work brilliantly together in this incredibly timely production.
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Aug 29, 2024 |
biorxiv.org | Rampal Etienne |David Murrell |Alex Pigot |Bouwe Rutger Reijenga
AbstractEcological communities are assembled over time, suggesting a crucial role for evolutionary history in determining the diversity of species assemblages. Indeed, differences in the build-up of sympatric diversity across space, time and clades may reflect variation in the historical patterns of speciation and thus time available for colonisation.
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Aug 8, 2024 |
phillymag.com | David Murrell
Longform How the 148-year-old Philadelphia institution fell spectacularly apart. The University of the Arts occupies — or, more accurately, occupied — a series of grand old buildings along South Broad Street. Terra Hall, a 17-story Beaux Arts structure with a soaring stone facade and columns that was built in 1911 as a Ritz-Carlton hotel, served as the main academic building.
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Literally nothing about this article is a hit piece though. It's an in-depth article about an interesting topic and you're quoted at length and got a very fair shake to explain your position! Other ppl disagree with you and are quoted. So what? That's life in the public sphere!

@Dan_Shaffer_17 @ProHousingPgh they got a whole Inquirer article planted about me lmao. The paper had somebody calling me a colonizer for not opposing this seltzer place with enough gusto https://t.co/8P4D1uRASa

This is truly so crazy lmaooo

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on the Houthis in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. https://t.co/IQfcvZHqmW

I wrote about the misguided, much-despised, disruptive plan to widen I95 through South Philly for @phillymag. https://t.co/oCjeTkLih7