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Year: 2015

Brewerytown

Brewerytown: Revitalizing Commercial Corridors Through Public Funding

December 7, 2015 pnadmin

When you walk around Fairmount and Girard avenues, you might begin to notice local businesses receiving a facelift. The facades of some local businesses have been assisted in their transformations with help from a city-run

Education

Overbrook: Farmacy Aims to Bring New Meaning, Access to Healthy Food

December 7, 2015 pnadmin

In 2017, the Overbrook Environmental Education Center is hopeful of opening the Overbrook Hall Farmacy for Human and Environmental Health Center, or Overbrook Farmacy, at a vacant structure at 6150 Lancaster Ave. The Overbrook Farmacy

Education

Logan: Residents Emphasize Education at Town Hall with Mayor-Elect Jim Kenney

December 4, 2015 pnadmin

Mayor-elect Jim Kenney met residents of North Philadelphia at Central High School in the first of a series of five town hall meetings taking place throughout the city. Central High, located in the Logan neighborhood,

North Philadelphia

Strawberry Mansion: Community Votes For Members of the Neighborhood Advisory Subcommittee

December 4, 2015 pnadmin

Residents of the 19121 and 19132 zip codes showed up to the Strawberry Mansion Neighborhood Action Center (NAC) last month to vote for members of the Neighborhood Advisory Subcommittee. Community members voted at one of two

Arts and Entertainment

Music: Opportunity for Producers of Electronic Dance Music Grows

December 4, 2015 pnadmin

Philadelphia is frequently in the shadow of New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Miami when it comes to electronic dance music but some top DJs’ roots are in the City of Brotherly Love. After

Education

Education: Sick at School? No Nurse on Duty

December 3, 2015 Lora C Strum

It’s a busy Monday morning at Andrew Jackson Elementary School in South Philadelphia when two kindergarteners walk into the front office, one with wet pants. As the little boy begins to tearfully explain how he

Center City

Center City: Valuing the Individual at the Ethical Humanist Society of Philadelphia

December 3, 2015 Tom Dougherty

For Hugh Taft-Morales (above), the closest he came to a religious experience was “Star Trek.” Taft-Morales, the leader of the Ethical Humanist Society of Philadelphia, grew up in an intellectual home with his father a scientist.

Arts and Entertainment

Port Richmond: Senior Citizens Showcase Their Inner Artists And More

December 2, 2015 pnadmin

Friday afternoons at St. Anne’s Senior Community Center are never a bore. The weekly Clay Creations class, taught by Anne Koszalka, highlights many seniors’ weeks and gives them something to look forward to on Fridays.

Featured Stories

Fishtown: Martial Arts School Teaches Self Defense, Self Improvement

December 2, 2015 pnadmin

She came home with bruises running up and down her arms. Her mother told her to just try to make the bullies her friends, and the school told her not to fight back. That’s when

Featured Stories

Fishtown: Selling One-of-a-kind Guitars, One Decade at a Time at DiPinto Guitars

December 1, 2015 Khaliha Ina Hawkins

Philadelphia has always been known for its love of cheesesteaks but it is also a city that loves music just as much. From live music venues such as World Café Live, Union Transfer and Electric

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