https://vimeo.com/93045443] The Garden of Earthly Delights, located in Northeast Philadelphia, houses thousands of collectibles as well as numerous volumes of hundreds of different comic books, including some that date back to the 1960s. Owner Chuck […]
The Bridesburg community is in the midst of a major change. The Philadelphia Department of Streets has embarked on the first new major road creation in more than a decade – the extension of Delaware […]
In the little room of the Lancaster Avenue Autonomous Space, three members of the Human Rights Coalition focused on the papers in front of them. HRC Facilitator, Patricia Vickers turned to member Karen Lee and […]
As students worked quietly in the classrooms at Saint Lucy’s, Principal Sister Lisa Ann Lettiere walked briskly down the hall towards one of the classrooms in the back of the school. “There are 40 students […]
Klint Kanopka still remembers the time when technology’s purpose in school could be boiled down to defeating your classmates on the Oregon Trail. “Even shop class used to carry a negative stigma,” Kanopka said, “and […]
Michelle Stortz has been practicing yoga for a little more than a decade but in 2008 found a new, profound purpose for the activity. Stortz’s husband, Jonathan Mark Lustig, was diagnosed with cancer. In an […]
Imagine the fear, frustration and mistrust you might feel upon being called ma’am when you’d clearly rather be called sir – or vice versa. This is the struggle transgender people of Philadelphia have been fighting. […]
Over the summer, Bartram’s Garden hosted a meeting to get community feedback on the Bartram’s Mile, a stretch of trail that would connect Bartram’s to the Schuylkill River Trail that currently ends around South Street. […]
Jacob’s Ladder, Solomon’s Seal and Shooting Star. No, these aren’t references to characters and events from the bible. Yet, as the shooting star signaled the birth of Jesus to the three wise men, so too […]
https://vimeo.com/92579370] The Holocaust Awareness Museum, which opened in 1961, is located inside the Klein Jewish Community Center at 10100 Jamison Ave. It has held many events, including one on April 11, which brought 139 students from five […]
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