Greetings from my stoop! It’s a beautiful day in Philadelphia — headed up to a sunny 80 degrees! — leading to the first outdoor solving of the year for me.
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Man murdered in customer’s car. Photo by Joseph Kaczmarek

• Shots fired in Northeast Philly Friday night
• Friday shooting headlines from around Philadelphia
• Philly gunfire reports via Twitter
• Man murdered in customer’s car
• Searching for answers after a shooting
• Mapping violent crime in Philadelphia
• Art imitates death: Murder movie crew arrives on scene after man is shot and killed
• Murdered by mistake: Reports from across the US
• Two caught in North Philly crossfire
• Triple shooting in North Philly overnight

When I was in junior high, kids who wanted an easy “A” for an elective worked in the A-V department. It stood for audio-visual, and what it meant was that you got to go around to various classes to run filmstrips (remember those?) and occasionally small-scale movie projectors.

In today’s puzzle, the “A-V” in the title stands for…

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The Canstruction.org art project against hunger has returned the the atrium at Liberty Place in Center City Philadelphia again this year. Jim MacMillan photo. jim@jimmacmillan.com

“The Family” sculpture at 1835 Market appears in the opening credits in “Philadelphia.” Photo by Jim MacMillan jim@jimmacmillan.com

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