Alaina Mabaso
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Maplewood Mall block party draws families, fire jugglers and awareness efforts
Locals came to the year’s second Reimagining Maplewood Mall block party on Saturday afternoon to, among other things, eat ice cream ...
11 years ago
Northwest Philadelphia art studios open to the public this weekend
Just behind the Germantown train station, Gina Michaels and her husband, John Phillips, have crammed a 10,000-square-foot artists’ ...
11 years ago
On eve of Maplewood Mall event, G-town Radio seeks spot on FM airwaves
Germantown’s Maplewood Mall and one of its anchor organizations, G-town Radio, are both looking at a major milestone this week, but ...
11 years ago
Phila U. students meet with residents to discuss visions for Germantown’s future
Mt. Airy resident and Philadelphia University landscape-architect professor Kim Douglas knew that asking her students to develop “e ...
11 years ago
Calling all groundlings: Quintessence Theatre goes back to the Globe in ‘Hamlet’ production
With his comfortable gray sneakers, black-framed glasses and shaggy hair, you might not be surprised to see the young Alex Burns reading ...
11 years ago
Thanks to a kickstart, made-for-TV movie about Germantown’s Sonia Sanchez closer to reality
Philadelphia filmmakers Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater have been following the city’s poet laureate, and Germantown luminary, So ...
11 years ago
Photo Walk shutterbugs face some resistance in Germantown but persevere in the name of art
As he sashayed down Germantown Avenue, the gentleman with a long braid in his hair passed by Arlene Renee Finston. He instantly took note ...
11 years ago
Mt. Airy artist opens exhibit full of never-before-seen art at the Woodmere
This fall at Woodmere Art Museum, visitors are experiencing paintings that the artist hid for decades, not only from his colleagues, but ...
11 years ago
Germantown Town Hall could host special events as early as Spring
Inspired by the Hidden City Festival’s June reopening of a neoclassic edifice on Germantown Avenue which had been abandoned for mor ...
11 years ago
Famed ecologist and longtime Chestnut Hill resident Ruth Patrick remembered by former apprentice
Environmental scientist and longtime Chestnut Hill resident Dr. Ruth Patrick died at the age of 105 in Lafayette Hills, Pa. on Monday.&nb ...
11 years ago
Chalk artists create 3D illusions on the the streets of Atlantic City
On Indiana Avenue, near Bally’s Casino in Atlantic City, a giant centipede crawled out of a yawning black hole in the pavement wher ...
11 years ago
Germantown’s Park(ing) Day features mini-parks, poetry, drums and supermarket talk
Nothing daunts the poets in Germantown where, for a second consecutive year, one parking spot wasn’t nearly enough space for the Ar ...
11 years ago