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ZIP Photo Essay: College Kids, Main Street, and Everyday Life in Manayunk, 19127

I, like many people, immediately think of drunken college kids when I think of Manayunk. Students from La Salle University, Saint Joseph& ...

10 years ago

New Thankful Baptist
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ZIP Essay: Easter on the avenue, an enduring faith, and the best Sunday mornings of my life in 19121

(Photo: Laura Blanchard/Flickr) Easter always triggers memories of everything I love about the culture and communit ...

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Finding the heart of Philadelphia by exploring around its edges

When photographer J.J. Tiziou describes his recent project of walking the perimeter of Philadelphia in under a week, it sounds like he ...

10 years ago

Finding the heart of Philadelphia by exploring around its edges

When photographer J.J. Tiziou describes his recent project of walking the perimeter of Philadelphia in under a week, it sounds like he ...

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Jessie used to eat breakfast every Saturday morning at Little Pete's before moving to New Jersey. She vividly remembers a first date at the diner. (Neal Santos/WHYY)
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One Day at Little Pete’s in Center City, 19103

Little Pete’s restaurant has been the greasy spoon of choice for Center City residents and workers for over 37 years. At the corner ...

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Untangling what black women’s ‘rebellious’ hair says about identity at work

Work-life balance is usually about parsing out workplace and personal time. But for many African-American women, it also includes somethi ...

10 years ago

An urban techie defying Millennial expectations

Philadelphia has few better examples of how brilliantly our tech scene shines than a transplanted British millennial who walked into city ...

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Reviving an old neighborhood name to help new life take root: Swampoodle, 19132

At the foot of West Silver Street sits an unremarkable vacant lot. Like hundreds of others across the city, it’s overgrown, trash strew ...

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A Photographer and A Friar Find Common Ground in Chinatown, 19107

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Jim Kenney
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ZIP Audio Postcard: Jim Kenney, South Philly, 19148

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Ron Wilch
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ZIP Audio Postcard: Ron Wilch, Center City, 19102

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 John Paul Ramos, Jack Griffin, and Lee Weingrad operate a booming South Philly hydroponic vertical farm. (Jason Sherman/Technical.ly Philly)

This South Philly hydroponic vertical farm is booming and has plans to go restaurant

What do South Philly, changing the world, and tomatoes have in common? Probably more than I realize. But at least one common denominator ...

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Depression Screenings for Women During and After Pregnancy

An influential government-appointed panel of health experts has specifically called for depression screenings for women during pregnancy ...

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Queen of Jeans front woman forges an identity as a band and an artist

Take a masculine Philly icon and turn it around into feminine flaunt That’s how the band ...

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Scenes from the annual Wildwood Polar Bear Plunge. (Bastiaan Slabbers/for NewsWorks)
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2016 Wildwood Polar Bear Plunge [photos]

At precisely 1P.M. on Saturday costumed plungers, many dressed as Gene Simmons, Wolverine, Elvis, a bunch of Waldos, made a dash into the ...

10 years ago

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