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And an exhibit focused solely on Lenape art

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Philly DJsRead moreIllustration by Anton Klusener/ Inquirer staff; photographs by Jessica Griffin/ Staff photographer, and courtesy of DJs, Elvira Michelle, Paul D. Best
    by Taylor Allen
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We’re in for patchy fog that should turn into partly cloudy skies. Expect a high of 84.

The kids are back in school. Summer vacations are over.

And with more people back in town and “needing that weekend fun,” as one put it, Philly DJs are gearing up for a busy fall. The Inquirer asked seven local DJs from North Philly to Manyunk to compile a playlist.

From new music to throwbacks, our lead story is filled with songs that reflects the city and its influence that spans genre and times.

— Taylor Allen (@TayImanAllen, morningnewsletter@inquirer.com)

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Philly DJs present your end-of-summer playlist

Philly’s influence on music is limitless. The home of The Roots, Jill Scott, Hall & Oates, and Patti LaBelle has a rich musical history.

We asked seven local DJs to make a playlist thats wraps up the summer.

🎧 Meet some of the talent:

  1. DJ Nash: From West Philadelphia, she plays Dancehall, soca, Afrobeats, reggaeton, house, and Philly club music. The longtime Dj said that the songs that represent the city include “Just Wanna Rock” by Lil Uzi Vert, “Shake Dhat” by DJ Crazy, Zahsosaa, and D Sturdy, “Millions (Jumbo Sounds Mix)” by Tierra Whack, and “Dreams and Nightmares” by Meek Mill.

  2. Oneeleven: From South Philly, they mentioned club music as being special to Philly’s music scene (with respect to Jersey and Baltimore). According to this entertainer, songs that represent Philly to include “He Loves Me 2″ by Steve Silk Hurley & CeCe Peniston and “Dreams and Nightmares” by Meek Mill.

Click here to meet the rest of the talent and check out the full playlist.

What you should know today

  1. Despite Pennsylvania State Police warning against people injecting themselves into the manhunt to find escaped prisoner Danelo Cavalcante, these citizens — some armed — are doing it anyway.

  2. A prisoner almost escaped the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center when she slipped out an unsecured door and climbed two fences before prison staff captured her.

  3. Northeast Philly Rep. Jared Solomon is the latest Democrat to announce he will run for Pennsylvania Attorney General.

  4. The Philadelphia health department is recalling tens of thousands of COVID-19 rapid tests after discovering the tests were invalid. Here’s what to do if you got one.

  5. Byun Brothers Sales Inc, a grocery wholesaler in North Philadelphia, must pay more than $419,000 to 21 workers for denying them overtime.

  6. The Perkiomen Valley school board has proposed a policy to limit bathroom use based on biological sex, prohibiting transgender students from using rooms aligned with their gender identities.

  7. Cleo Bagels finally opened in West Philly after seven years of roadblocks.

  8. Because of the restoration to the Manayunk Canal, a portion of the Schuylkill River Trail will be temporarily closed until the end of the year.

‘We are here and present’

“Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories” is an exhibit that aims to share the story — past, present, and future — of the Lenape people at the Michener Art Museum.

It also appears to be the first exhibit to focus solely on Lenape art.

A significant aspect of the exhibit is land acknowledgement. Michener and the Philadelphia area sit on Lenape land.

Notable quote: “Our presence within our homeland has effectively all been erased,” Joe Baker, a cocurator of the exhibit, said. “We have been forcibly displaced through generations of hundreds of years beginning in the 1700s. “[The exhibit] signals that we are back, that we are here and present, and that we lead very diverse, contemporary, professional lives.”

The exhibit will be on display through Jan. 14.

Read more to learn about the inspiration for the exhibit.

🧠 Trivia time 🧠

Taylor Swift was spotted in New York last week wearing a retro top from which Philly university?

Hint: It was sourced by Philadelphia clothing curator Caitlin Driscoll of Peppered Goods.

A) University of Pennsylvania

B) Temple University

C) Drexel University

D) Thomas Jefferson University

Think you know? Check your answer.

What we’re...

👀 Watching: Philadelphia orchestra players rejected a new contract the same day their old one expired.

🏟️ Viewing: The latest renderings for the Wells Fargo Center’s upgrades to the arena’s exterior.

🧩 Unscramble the anagram 🧩

Hint: This Eagle’s documentary premiered last night

CLEAN JOKES

We’ll select a reader at random to shout out here. Cheers to Cindy Seipp, who correctly guessed Monday’s answer: Lane Johnson. Email us if you know the answer.

Photo of the day

That’s it from me. I’ll be back bright and early in your inbox tomorrow. ☀️