Stacia Friedman

Gwen Bailey, 64, isn’t into “this retirement thing.” As the executive director of Youth Service, Inc., a support servic ...

Most people see with their eyes. Marilyn MacGregor sees with her sketchbook. “I find line and color are inspirations in themse ...

“Dancing has been really important in bringing me out of my shell and making me more open to the world around me,” says Steve ...

Rabbis often address troubling community issues in their sermons. Rabbi Ilene Schneider takes a different approach: She writes humorous m ...

Sorry folks, there’s nothing “new” about the new skating rink at Dilworth Plaza. I honestly wished the mayor had spent ...

In 2004, Kathryn “Kitsie” Converse lost a bet. “I told friends if Bush won again I was going to Paris to be a Baguette ...

When Kati “Jazz” Gray-Sadler, 56, speaks to members of the LGBT community, people listen.  Not just in Philly, but around the wo ...

If the wrecking ball demolishes the Parker-Spruce Hotel and adjacent Westbury Bar and Restaurant at 13th and Spruce, it’s goin ...

Alice Dustin, 72, likes to get high. Not on drugs or alcohol. But on the flying trapeze at the ...

I had been worried for weeks. Lola, who had always been vain about her slender figure, was suddenly eating twice as much as usual. Not ju ...

Philadelphia schools are failing. Students are not reading at grade level. Some classes are so overcrowded, children are sitting on windo ...

My affection for libraries goes back to my childhood in Penn Wynne where a matronly lady behind the desk stamped my card with the date du ...