Jumpstart Germantown is a redevelopment program that was established in April, 2014 by Mount Airy real estate developer Ken Weinstein. The organization tackles the problems of blighted properties in the Northwest by training a new generation [continue reading…]
Executive Director Wes Tudor and his group of instructors at Raja Yoga and Meditation Center of Greater Philadelphia are breaking down financial barriers and changing perceptions surrounding yoga one downward dog at a time. In [continue reading…]
Although Ryan Howard‘s time with the Philadelphia Phillies has come to an end, his impact in Philadelphia is far from over. On a rainy fall night, more than a dozen aspiring baseball players worked on their swings at [continue reading…]
Philadelphia is full of parks and lush gardens that make it easy to forget it’s a large city on the East Coast. Rittenhouse, Graduate Hospital and Logan Square are three neighborhoods within walking distance of each [continue reading…]
A community is only as good as its people allow it to be, and the folks living west of Broad on South Street have taken this notion to heart. Both the South of South Neighborhood [continue reading…]
Stacy Redmond remembers when one of her neighbors used to unplug the fire hydrant on her small South Philadelphia block. Kids would play in the water, trash and grime would be washed away along with troubles at work [continue reading…]
No. “No” is one of the first words a dog hears in life and sometimes never learns. But for dog owners living in South of South, “no” is a word they hear all too often. South Philadelphians love [continue reading…]
For the past three years straight, Philadelphia was named one of America’s dirtiest cities in Travel + Leisure magazine. Public trash might be one of the least glamorous topics known to mankind but imagine how [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/79097353] Exercise is an important part of life. You must push yourself and be persistent in order to get better. At NextFab Studio on Washington Avenue in the Graduate Hospital area, minds are the muscles [continue reading…]
https://vine.co/v/htTzAVa02mj You’ve probably heard that trees are good for the environment, providing clean air and shade to reduce energy consumption for heating. Graduate Hospital area residents call their sidewalk saplings street trees and say they’re [continue reading…]
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