In a rousing community policy meeting, residents and liaisons for local organizations assembled to discuss and develop action plans for multiple neighborhood issues. “We want to see results and to sustain those results,” Mike Cormany, [continue reading…]
Author Eve Troutt Powell held a discussion at the University of Pennsylvania bookstore on Tuesday evening to talk about her book, Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman [continue reading…]
[vimeo 60263484] The Food Trust, a nationally recognized nonprofit, is making Philadelphia a healthier city one corner store at a time. Through The Healthy Corner Store Initiative, the Food Trust targets corner stores all over Philadelphia [continue reading…]
When Charles Burke, a junior architecture major at Penn University, first heard about the Actual Value Initiative – the reassessment of every property in the city of Philadelphia done with the intention of rooting the [continue reading…]
The Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Center holds many nature programs for members of the community including the Junior Docent Program, which is set to start March 2. “Docents are highly trained guides. The guides that [continue reading…]
In the past month, neighborhood crime reports indicate two robberies, two burglaries and a car theft have taken place in the 19th Police District near Overbrook. The 19th District is being proactive in educating community members [continue reading…]
The Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church in West Philadelphia featured music this weekend that consisted of different traditional Latin American and Caribbean beats. The event, “Carnival Tropical,” mirrored the celebrations that occur in many Latin American [continue reading…]
Over the past year, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia has combined parishes in various Philadelphia communities. Earlier this month, the archdiocese announced Saint Donato’s Catholic Church, in Overbrook, would merge with another Catholic church in the [continue reading…]
[vimeo 59468918] The Lam family took a chance. They pooled together their money to open a restaurant, named Saigon Cuisine, and entrusted two brothers, Then and Len Lam, to make it successful. “We know we can [continue reading…]
“West Philly’s best kept secret.” Those were the words used by Mahari Bailey to describe Café Rue 52, the new creperie and espresso bar at 503 S. 52nd St., which he owns. Bailey grew up [continue reading…]
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