https://vimeo.com/38749583] Multiple health centers offer a variety of care to Latino communities across Philadelphia literally tending to the body, mind and soul. These organizations offer their services in both Spanish and English. Further, these organizations [continue reading…]
For the past three summers, Brewerytown has hosted the annual Art and Soul Food festival, a celebration of local food, art, music and fashion. The event is an indoor-outdoor festival located on West Girard Avenue [continue reading…]
The La Salle University Art Museum is honoring Philadelphia artist Jane Irish. Irish’s material comes from La Salle’s Connelly Library’s Imaginative Representation of the Vietnam War collection. The exhibit War is Not What You Think [continue reading…]
Hunting Park Tires is a lot like other small businesses in the area. Family owned and operated, it caters to an array of regulars while also servicing anyone with tire troubles on East Hunting Park [continue reading…]
For one Saturday a month over the past two and one-half years, the Blackwell Regional Library has held the Reading to Dogs program, a chance for local children of all ages to read aloud to [continue reading…]
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The Lucien Crump Gallery Art Education Resource Center, located at 6380 Germantown Ave., was founded during the mid-1970s by Lucien Crump. Since his death, his wife Loretta Tate has taken over the center. In 2008, [continue reading…]
Philadelphia is emerging from rundown outskirts to a new uptown feel with the help of local shop owners planning to defend the crown of the city and help the planning commission revamp and realize they [continue reading…]
Art enthusiasts collect Picassos. Baseball fans collect autographed balls. Shoe collectors, or “sneakerheads,” buy the Nike Air Jordan. The term sneakerhead refers to a person who collects rare, original or exclusive shoes. Fairhill native Chris [continue reading…]
Minter Krotzer decided she wanted to teach others how to do what she did: write. So just months after her move to Mount Airy in 2007, Krotzer, the Big Blue Marble Bookstore’s writer-in-residence, began teaching. [continue reading…]
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