Chants of, “Stand up! Fight back!” echoed throughout LOVE Park on Tuesday, Oct. 23. Hundreds gathered to vocalize their concerns about recent threats to transgender civil rights and to show support for the transgender community. [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…]
Philadelphia skateboarders have slowly pieced together a skater’s paradise underneath the Interstate 95 overpass in Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park. Located near Broad Street and Pattison Avenue, skaters gather at FDR Skate Park daily to shred in [continue reading…]
Where do the flowers growing in Philadelphia’s public parks came from? Do they grow wild or are they planted? They are actually grown by the Horticulture Center, a little greenhouse nestled in Fairmount Park not [continue reading…]
Several hundred protesters against anti-union legislation converged on Love Park at noon on Saturday. Those who couldn’t make it to Harrisburg to participate in the nationwide chain of demonstrations taking place in each capital city [continue reading…]
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