Neighborhoods

The much-anticipated Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts kicked off Thursday, April 7. Inspired by an artistic movement in Paris in 1911, the month-long festival features over 135 citywide events and 1,500 artists in hopes

  https://vimeo.com/22319683] Nicole Mattis murdered her abusive boyfriend. Cindy Livingston, 46, has been a PCP user since the age of 13. Together they are starting over at New Directions for Women Inc., an alternative to

https://vimeo.com/22180314] Early in the morning at 28th Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue a school crossing guard looked perplexed when asked where the corner store was. The look on her face seemed to ask, “Where

https://vimeo.com/22266887] Beyond the liter rolling along the sidewalk and the debris that fills Sixth and Cambria streets is a place where everyone is welcome. The two-sided building looks like it is two row homes in the

https://vimeo.com/22204647] After John Perzel, the speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, was charged with misusing public funds, he lost the seat he had held for more than 30 years in the 172nd district to Democrat

Two years after losing the community firehouse, groundbreaking for a new LEED Silver Certified Tacony firehouse is only a month away. The new Engine 38 firehouse, which has a proposed cost of $5.5 million, will

https://vimeo.com/22349952] About $10.6 million was funneled directly to the Mayfair Community Development Corp. since 2000, granted from the State Department of Community and Economic Development, according to its website. Much of it went into street

On the corner of Main and Gay streets, Laura Cheadle and her band impressed a gathering of music lovers basking on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in Manayunk. Cheadle boasted her band’s family routes.  Her father, James