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Plan Philly: South Kensington Church Plans to Sell Building

February 23, 2013

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo The St. Michael Roman Catholic Church in South Kensington plans to sell the vacant property it owns across the street. The

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Chestnut Hill

Chestnut Hill: School Making Teachers and Students Entrepreneurs

February 22, 2013

For a long time, teachers and administrators have discussed ways to bring education into the 21 century but haven’t taken much action. In order to prepare students for college, careers and life, they need to

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Plan Philly: New Shops Provide Commercial Progress On Girard Avenue

February 21, 2013

https://vimeo.com/60176594] A recent spike in the opening of local businesses and small shops has had Girard Avenue looking a bit different lately. On Girard Avenue, specifically between Sixth and Front streets, a handful of businesses

Arts and Entertainment

Francisville: Cambridge Street Studios Brings Realist Art to Neighborhood

February 19, 2013

[vimeo 60050295] In December 2010 an opportunity arose for three artists who studied in New York City. Anthony Ranalli, Andrew McManus and Jeremy Deck were asked by a former instructor at Grand Central Academy of Art to

Fairmount

Fairmount: Proposed Bicycle Lane is Up for Residents’ Approval

February 19, 2013

[vimeo 59862679] Fairmount residents voted last month to support of a bicycle lane starting at Broad Street heading west. Now the neighborhood awaits approval from Spring Garden and Francisville. These residents will be given the opportunity

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Northeast: Residents Want to Raise Chickens in the City

February 19, 2013

https://vimeo.com/59811079] This story is the first of two about backyard chickens in Philadelphia and the effort to legalize them. It’s done in partnership with NEastPhilly.com and NewsWorks. Almost a decade ago, the City Council met

Amateur Sports

Kensington: A Football Team Inspires the Players and the Community

February 16, 2013charper

Welcome to Rise of the Tigers, a documentary series that chronicles the story of the Kensington Tigers football team. Now in its second season, the team finds its home in one of the city’s roughest

Crime

Hunting Park: Residents Combat Neighborhood’s Reputation

February 15, 2013

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo Google Hunting Park. Count the articles on death, shootings, stabbings and assaults. Now count those that actually took place in the

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Axis Philly: Longtime Resident of Grad Hospital Expresses Concern Over Tax Increases

February 15, 2013

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo Many people are concerned that their property taxes will increase significantly due to the property value reassessments, which city officials expect to

Arts and Entertainment

Germantown: Local Seniors Craft Sock Puppets for Children Abroad

February 14, 2013

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo Residents of Wesley Enhanced Living at Stapely on the corner of Greene Street and West Washington Lane found a way to

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  • People stand on a sidewalk beneath a pale gray sky. The street behind them is between two tan stone buildings with floor-to-ceiling glass windows on their ground levels, and the multicolored glass exterior of a parking garage shines further down the street, next to some taller red brick buildings. Glass windows are visible behind the people on the sidewalk. Some of them wear raincoats or windbreakers, and some of them hold umbrellas of various colors. Two men in the right half of the image, one southeast Asian and one white, wear clerical collars. They are all waving wooden rods with thick red ribbons tied to the ends of them in the air. Most of the people present appear to be white and/or over the age of 50. One bearded, middle-aged man in a gray and black windbreaker and black pants points a camera towards the bottom right corner of the image, where a blue banner reads “GOD STANDS WITH THE OPPRESSED.” To the banner’s left, a canvas with a monarch butterfly painted on it is draped over a concrete sidewalk barrier. A blue bicycle is parked behind the man with the camera, and a black car in the street drives past the group of people.
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