Pictured above: A female go-go dancer atop a dance-floor platform at The Dolphin Tavern. One afternoon more than a decade ago, Melissa Blimline (as she was then known) wandered to The Dolphin Tavern for a [continue reading…]
The development of Penn’s Landing is something that has been plaguing planners, developers and administrations for the past few decades. Since construction began in 1967 to turn the previously wharf-ridden, eastern portion of Old City [continue reading…]
As water ethics and awareness have grown over the past decade in Philadelphia, residents have become accustomed to hearing messages of sustainability from such familiar voices as the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, the Delaware River Basin [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/92169217] The sounds of a keyboard and drums filled the banquet hall as dancers practiced their moves and actors rehearsed musical numbers. In front of the stage, rows of chairs were lined up behind circular [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/91627549] A long time ago, Warren Muller heard something strange coming from the street outside his Philadelphia apartment. “I used to hear this man calling his dog outside of my apartment and he would keep [continue reading…]
Walk near the corner of 37th and Wallace streets on a Sunday around noon and the red-and-white brick building will be screaming at the top of its lungs. It’s not the building itself, but the [continue reading…]
The people of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction took Walter Benjamin’s theory and ran with it. The German critic penned an essay of the same name in 1936 suggesting art was ever-evolving and, [continue reading…]
Facing a $304 million budget deficit last June, the School District of Philadelphia laid off 3,800 employees, including 127 assistant principals, 676 teachers, 283 counselors, 1,202 aides, 307 secretaries and 769 service assistants. Extracurricular programs [continue reading…]
Driving her son to basketball practice and her daughter to dance class, Barbara Petrasovits spends each week surrounded by athletics. However, watching her children from the sideline failed to burn any of her own calories. [continue reading…]
It may seem like it is taking a while for the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) to issue Philadelphia’s second gaming license, but the wait is nothing that the city has not been through before. [continue reading…]
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