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The entire conference wing of The Wyndham Philadelphia Historic District Hotel smelled like books — notebooks, paperbacks, hardcovers, and short stories. Books for sale on tables, books being written in corners with cups of coffee,

Justin Deutsch’s classroom is filled with an array of tools: about a half-dozen cameras, iMacs, a recording studio, and a couple of green screens. He uses these to teach students how to create multimedia projects,

Originally a group of villages surrounding the falls of the Schuylkill River, East Falls flourished as a neighborhood when Philadelphia began to industrialize in the early nineteenth century. The river was an important resource, and

When Hakim Hopkins was sent to juvenile detention in New Jersey at age 14, his mother sent him the book Native Son by Richard Wright. “I became an avid reader,” Hopkins said. “That was the

There is no such thing as a typical day at the Philadelphia Free School, located at 2001 Christian St. Students do different things each day, whether that be practicing a song on the piano with

In 2010, Addisu Habte, and Ethiopian immigrant now living in West Philadelphia, stood in the doorway of his Wynnewood home, assuring an officer that there was no reason for the police to have been called

Despite the fact that over the last twenty years, Yoga has gone from a marginal activity to an almost mainstream one here in the West, the general impression is that Yoga is still not altogether