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https://vimeo.com/33289422] Walking down most of Germantown Avenue and the surrounding area, it feels like nearly every other storefront is a hair salon or barbershop. However, when owner Yolanda Bailey of The Weave Bar in University

https://vimeo.com/33166763] From the outside, Philadelphia Hair Co. blends right into the plethora of other barbershops and hair salons lining Germantown Avenue. A montage of event posters covers the window front below a gaudy, neon-red lit sign

When Jane Golden, the executive director of the Mural Arts Program, received an application for a project intended to address homelessness in the city, she said she was “deeply moved.” Submitted last year by a law

In her Bright Futures classroom, Tara Matise danced fast and slow danced to accomplish her lesson plan: teaching a group of 3- and 4-year-olds the meaning of opposite. “I’ve taught preschool for the past five

Ten years ago, Mamoudou Hama traveled from Mali for a vacation in New York City. Little did he know he would meet the woman of his dreams and end up spending the rest of his

Workers were cleaning up the mess after a sudden explosion and fire left a home on the 1100 block of Ontario Street literally a shell of its former self. Verlene Stephens has been living on

https://vimeo.com/32556577] At the gateway of East Falls on Ridge Avenue, surrounded by a chain-link fence, lays a large empty lot known as “The Rivage.” Gina Snyder, the executive director of the East Falls Development Corp.,

The old convent in the ominous shadow of the abandoned Bonaventure Church could have easily fallen into disrepair. But Rev. Mildred Kee and a host of volunteers transformed the building into a place where women