You may see them walking around your neighborhood wearing sharp-looking suit jackets, spotless white shirts, with backpacks and nice slacks. You may also see them stray away from the sidewalks and up the front steps [continue reading…]
It’s a warm sunny day at Vernon Park in Germantown. Moms bring babies out in strollers to get some fresh air. But it doesn’t take long for wrappers and bottles to get caught in those [continue reading…]
It’s just an unassuming building on a typical Germantown street, but the Happy Hollow Recreation Center is put to good use on many fronts, lending space to a wide range of organizations, including Narcotics Anonymous, [continue reading…]
Empty 40-ounce bottles of Old English make a loud cracking sound as they roll down Kensington Avenue. Devoured bags of Doritos and old, worn-out clothes pile up on the corners of the streets, while people [continue reading…]
Congratulations! Your entry has been selected for presentation at the “Best Practices in Teaching of Diversity Competition” session at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual convention in Boston. I am happy [continue reading…]
[soundslide url=”https://astro.temple.edu/~tua45772/su0905sfriedmanspotfeature/” height=”550″ width=”600″] Memorial Day Weekend – the kickoff to summer, famed for beach trips and getaway weekends. The city of Philadelphia clears out a little bit, as people jump at the chance to [continue reading…]
Philadelphia has long been an esteemed beer city dating back to the colonial times. Taverns and pubs were meeting places for revolutionaries. The tradition of immigrants finding community in pub life continued throughout the industrial [continue reading…]
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