North Philadelphia

As I sat in the Lillian Marrero branch of the free library in Fairhill, I couldn’t help but notice a girl, not much older than myself, hunched over her sketchpad with a furrowed brow, deep

In the Greater Olney Branch Library, Veronica Henson, who is in her mid-60s, sat near a wooden oak table reading Maya Angelou’s “Even the Stars Look Lonesome.” Henson graduated, with an associate’s degree in computer

When married couple Amanda Bossard and Murat Aritan dreamed of bringing their unique sustainable seafood company, Otolith, to Philadelphia in 2007, they knew some bumps in the road would follow. Aritan spends six months of

https://vimeo.com/21940908] Stan Heleva, the producing artistic director at the  Walking Fish Theatre , loves being a cornerstone of the Kensington art community. “We are constantly introducing ourselves to the neighborhood, and introducing art to the neighborhood.

  The building sitting on the corner of North Third and West Oxford streets looks like it houses residential apartments, but actually it is the home of Impacto Latin Newspaper. Impacto started as a small newsletter

For 30 years, Gomez Mini Mart has stood on the corner of Eighth and West Lycoming streets in Hunting Park. The locally operated grocery has withstood changing owners, economic downturns and even violent shootings outside

There’s a popular trend among teens in Hunting Park and other neighborhoods around Philadelphia. For fun, young kids will gather on street corners or playgrounds and square off to see who has the baddest dog.

Dominoes. How important can the game be? “We cannot wait until the finals,” said player Gabriel Martinez. It’s the second to the last week of the year-long tournament and the teams are ready to take