https://vimeo.com/18391663] “The office is a mess,” Alice Manos says with a laugh. “It doesn’t usually look like this.” She stands off to the corner of the Spiral Q Theater office and pulls wires across the [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18391556] Every Thursday there is a reconciliation hearing at City Hall for people who are in danger of losing their homes due to foreclosure. At these reconciliation hearings, a housing counselor is available. This is [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18391734] Laurisa Adorno-Camacho-Rivera, a self-proclaimed “motor mouth,” credits her father for getting her involved in the Congreso de Latinos Unidos after-school program, North Star, at Fairhill School. “He likes it a lot,” Adorno-Camacho-Rivera said with [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18391693] Brad Johns waits for the bus at the corner of 41st Street and Westminster Avenue, resigned to the long wait. From his perch at this stop on SEPTA’s long-term detour for bus routes 38 [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18391422] When Kensington High School for Creative and Performing Arts opens at its new Front and Berks location in September, community group Youth United for Change will have realized a major victory in its neighborhood [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18391628] Wister, the smaller of Germantown’s two R-7 SEPTA train stations, is an easy spot to miss if you are not a local to Ashmead Street or making a special effort to look for it. [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18393266] Hungry residents in Germantown may find their bellies a little fuller this year, thanks to the efforts of the three churches that comprise Germantown Avenue Lutheran Parish (GALP). For six weeks Christ Ascension (8300 [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18391216] For Samuel Nalbandian, owner of Rising Sun Pizza in Lawncrest, the business is a way of life and the recession is nothing to worry about. “For me, it’s been the same,” he said of [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18393543] When it comes to fashion, few cities can compete with New York City. However, Philadelphia, a neighbor to the fashion capital of the world, has been trying for years to make a lasting impression [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/18392212] The droning sounds of generators, backhoes, hammers and dropped lumber fill a section of North Central Philadelphia. From Broad Street west to 20th Street, and from Oxford Street northward up to Susquehanna Avenue this [continue reading…]
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