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Home2015

Year: 2015

Featured Stories

Powelton Village: Lancaster Mews Gets Historic

November 17, 2015 pnadmin

Lancaster Mews, a row of apartments and businesses on the 3600 block of Lancaster Avenue will keep its 19th century architecture after a city commission ruled on its importance. Last month, sites around the city were

Amateur Sports

Mill Creek: Playing a Traditional Game Untraditionally

November 17, 2015 pnadmin

On a cool Monday night in October, more than 20 young adults bundled up to play softball at Mill Creek Playground in West Philadelphia. But these were no ordinary players. There were men and women hustling

Amateur Sports

Center City: Roman Catholic’s Nazeer Bostick Becomes a Leader

November 17, 2015 pnadmin

While basketball is not a major contact sport, aggressiveness and toughness are certainly important traits. Nazeer Bostick possesses both of these and has used them to become a leader on one of the top high

Amateur Sports

South Philadelphia: LGBT Community Comes Together Through Football

November 16, 2015 pnadmin

Mention football and South Philadelphia in the same sentence and most people will instinctively think of the Eagles. However, across the street from Lincoln Financial Field, at FDR Park, another kind of football is making

Amateur Sports

Old City: Fearless Athletics Welcomes Early Birds

November 16, 2015 pnadmin

Recently, the gym Fearless Athletics has been going through what could be called a growth spurt. Membership has continuously risen at its South Philadelphia location, and now it has opened a new location in Old City. One of the

Hunting Park

Hunting Park: Ryan Harris Helps Youths to Think, Grow Outside of the Box

November 11, 2015 Harrison Brink

When you leave the neighborhood you grew up in, it can be easy to simply move on from the troubles you faced there. Many want to escape their, perhaps, troublesome pasts and move on toward

Center City

Center City: Freedom Church Keeps Their Young Crowd Engaged

November 11, 2015 Moira E Wilson

Walking by the Prince Theater at 9 a.m. on a Sunday and you will wonder, “What are all those lights doing on so early?” That’s because Freedom Church is preparing for their weekly Sunday morning worship at

Featured Stories

Strawberry Mansion: Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facility Helps Build Better Community

November 10, 2015 pnadmin

Rochelle Amos sat nervously at a desk in a conference room at Stop and Surrender Inc., a substance abuse treatment provider located at 2522 W. Huntingdon St. In a shaky voice, she talked about what

Arts and Entertainment

Rittenhouse: Curtis Institute of Music Thrives in Tradition

November 10, 2015 pnadmin

With a music teacher mother, an older sister who played the violin and an aunt who also attended the school, Erika Gray (above), a second-year viola student at the Curtis Institute of Music, decided it

Mayfair

Mayfair: Reuniting the Community With a Playground

November 10, 2015 Christina Ann Dogas

The Mayfair Memorial Playground is a community built park and is helping the community come together. It’s located in front of Lincoln High School on Ryan Avenue. The playground received a $80,000 grant from KaBOOM

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