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Neighborhoods

10th Annual Turkey Day Tailgate

November 10, 2025 Chelsea Lubbe

A decade of giving back to Philadelphia’s community, PhillyPR girl’s event returns for their 10th year with the Headstrong Foundation  The Giants and the Eagles had their second match up of the season after taking

Neighborhoods

8 Seconds Rodeo Rides Proudly into Philadelphia

November 9, 2025 Chelsea Lubbe

8 Seconds Rodeo rider, Tyler Torrey, rides a bull in the finals for a chance to win the $60-thousand grand prize at the Liacouras Center on Oct. 11, 2025.
Photo: Colt Gunn

Kensington

Recovery Through Community: A Conversation with Project HOME Outreach Specialist Monique Taylor

November 7, 2025 Áedán Alexander-Mullen

 Kensington, a small neighborhood in the North East of Philadelphia, is considered one of the largest open-air drug markets in the country. Last week, it made national headlines when the FBI publicly raided and arrested

Neighborhoods

Artist José Ortiz-Pagán on Indigenous Spiritual Practices and Art in a Time of Political Upheaval

November 7, 2025 Megan Beal Russell

José Ortiz-Pagán is a Puerto Rican visual artist based in Philadelphia. His work focuses on harnessing indigenous spiritual practices through murals, installations, performances and spiritual rituals to create community-engaged art. Ortiz-Pagán spoke to Philadelphia Neighborhoods

Arts and Entertainment

Funding Queer Art Amid Trump’s DEI Crackdown: A Conversation with Leeway’s Pia Agrawal

November 7, 2025 Morgan L Ritter

The Trump administration’s crackdown on arts and culture funding has had particularly dire consequences for queer and trans artists and the organizations that support them. A PA Humanities CultureCheck report found that more than 90%

Arts and Entertainment

“Create Spaces of Love and Abundance”: Bearded Ladies Cabaret Founder Rose Jarboe Talks Resistance Through Queer Art

November 7, 2025 Morgan L Ritter

Since Trump took office in January, arts organizations that support queer and trans artists have faced political backlash and funding cuts.   But in Rose Jarboe’s world, it ain’t over till the bearded lady sings.  Jarboe

Fairhill

Keeping Puerto Rican Culture Alive Through Art: A Conversation with Marilyn Rodriguez

November 7, 2025 Jacob E Toussaint

Philadelphia Neighborhoods sat down with Marilyn Rodriguez, the Education Director at Taller Puertorriqueño. Taller is an arts and culture organization in the heart North Philadelphia, a neighborhood that is home to  approximately 67,000 Hispanic residents.

Muslim students gathered in the James E. Marks Cultural Center for prayer on Oct. 3, 2025
Immigration

“Fear Doesn’t Drive Us, Community Does”: Philadelphia Muslim Communities Respond to Rising Political Tensions

November 5, 2025 Julianna Musser

Philadelphia’s Muslim communities are working to build safe spaces as they navigate the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrant communities and an increase in Islamophobic violence since Isreal’s war on Palestine began in 2023.  Currently, there

Neighborhoods

“No Contract, No Peace”: Philly Hotel Workers Strike Ahead of City’s Biggest Tourism Year

November 5, 2025 Rhys Gordon

This month, Unite Here Local 274, a labor union of nearly 4,000 private sector hotel and food service workers, is going on strike. After 17 months without a new contract, Unite Here is demanding that

Neighborhoods

North Philadelphia Community Spotlight: A Conversation With Hazel Edwards

November 5, 2025 Jada Rae Montgomery

As the Trump administration rolls back federal nondiscrimination protections, restricts access to gender-affirming care, and rescinds protections for transgender students’ rights to use bathrooms that match their gender identities, Philadelphia Neighborhoods Reporter Jada Montgomery sat down with

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