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https://vimeo.com/25038119] The women from New Directions Inc., who participate in Gearing Up’s bike rides on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, have unique backgrounds, stories and motivations, but they have all fallen in love with biking as

https://vimeo.com/25634615] John Phillips has been a part of Philadelphia’s landscape for 30 years, but his work is best when you never know he was there. From working on the Washington Monument and Rocky statue in

https://vimeo.com/24794312] Imagine a place surrounded by stark urban blight where you hear the bright sounds of music, laughter of children and see engaging artwork, such as shiny mosaics and colorful murals, on all the walls around

https://vimeo.com/24843888] The fact that a German immigrant founded Germantown may seem common knowledge, but the various layers of Francis Daniel Pastorius’ legacy are often overlooked. While a monument in honor of Pastorius is positioned along

https://vimeo.com/24838895] Gwen Hardeman, a former drug addict, received the Gearing Up Bicycle Ambassador award this weekend and a brand new Fuji mountain bike at the 2011 TD Bank Philadelphia International Liberty Classic bike race, in

  Only a few years ago, 215 E. Penn St. was an abandoned lot, overrun by 15-foot bushes and weeds. Now it’s a half-acre farm in the city. The Germantown Kitchen Garden practices local agriculture,

Sunday evening was a night filled with musical festivities and poetry at the Bread and Cup Coffeehouse at 35 W. Chelten Ave. The coffeehouse, hosted by the First Presbyterian Church, has been held for the

On an unseasonably hot spring morning just before the clock strikes noon and temperatures already scorching 96 degrees many people are avoiding the outdoors. But for sidewalk entrepreneurs Marie and Greg Ford, enduring the sweltering