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Copeland: Face-to-face meeting saved Delaware Symphony Orchestra
After months of negotiations, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra and the union representing its musicians have finally found some middle gro ...
13 years ago
Center for Literacy launches social media campaign to raise funds and awareness
Philadelphia’s leading community-based adult literacy provider, Center for Literacy (CFL), is trying to raise $15,000 through a social ...
13 years ago
Pa. State Police busts people buying booze south of the border
It sounds like something from Prohibition days, but over the weekend, authorities cracked down on people buying liquor out of state and b ...
13 years ago
Much of Red Cross fund for Sandy aid still unspent
Nearly seven months after Superstorm Sandy, a third of the money the Red Cross raised to assist storm victims is still unspent. Th ...
13 years ago
Philly wig shop looks to connect hair donors with patients
“My life is defined by my hair,” says Erica Matos, 27, in the living room of a friend recruited to straighten the mass of bla ...
13 years ago
High flyers compete at Wildwood kite festival
In the competitive kite flying scene, 20-year old Spence “Watty” Watson is a breath of fresh air. Competing in the Eas ...
13 years ago
Tax the deadbeats, fix the bridges
In August of ’07, after an interstate highway bridge collapsed in Minneapolis and turned 13 commuters into corpses, I called the di ...
13 years ago
Hermann has not considered resigning as Rutgers AD
Julie Hermann has not considered resigning as Rutgers’ incoming athletic director following reports that 16 years ago she humiliate ...
13 years ago
Police release video in Monday’s Valley Green Inn burglary
Philadelphia Police are looking for two suspects connected to a burglary that occurred yesterday at the Valley Green Inn in Wissahickon P ...
13 years ago
Dragon boats look to return to Schuylkill
The Schuylkill Dragons, an all-women dragon boat team, has high hopes of qualifying to compete on the international level. With a few nat ...
13 years ago
The final month: Scenes from Germantown High School’s last-ever prom
With all due respect to Donna Summer, what happened on Friday night inside the Hyatt Regency Philadelphia at Penn’s Landing was the ...
13 years ago
Worried civic groups call on Philly to help out with insurance
The death of a Philadelphia civic group is raising concerns about the vulnerability of similar organizations across the city.& ...
13 years ago
An espresso bar and art gallery grows along Germantown’s Coulter Street [video]
On a spectrum that starts with a vision and ends with reality, Germantown’s Coulter Street Supply Co. sits somewhere in between. ...
13 years ago
Woodmere’s juried exhibit features local up-and-coming artists
Every spring, Woodmere Art Museum takes what director and CEO William Valerio calls, in this year’s show catalog, “a step int ...
13 years ago