Philadelphia
OARC to debut West Oak Lane Night Market in 2013
A new outdoor festival is coming to West Oak Lane next summer. The Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Corporation (OARC) is teaming up with the ...
14 years ago
State Rep. Cherelle Parker co-hosts annual Thanksgiving luncheon in West Oak Lane
About 100 Northwest Philadelphians seniors came out on Tuesday to Upper Room Missionary Baptist Church for an annual Thanksgiving meal&nb ...
14 years ago
14th Police District: Where baseball-bat attacks occur at breakfast time
This list covers from Oct. 15-24, 2012. Oct. 15 7:45 a.m. Residential Burglary: 7200 block of N. 20th St. ...
14 years ago
Harmony on the street and on the stage of the Uptown
This was a neighborhood crawling with talent. “It was not uncommon to have boys and men walk around ‘crooning,’ ...
14 years ago
ListenNW Philly’s Ivy Ridge Trail planners shoot for 2015 opening
It’s one small step for the Manayunk Bridge project and a giant leap for trail users. On Monday night, project leaders and r ...
14 years ago
Philadelphia controller to review election procedures
Elections aren’t usually within the purview of Philadelphia’s city controller, but the fiscal watchdog wants to know why so m ...
14 years ago
Hearing for man accused of fatally strangling pregnant Germantown girlfriend delayed
A defense request for a continuance delayed the preliminary hearing in the case of a pregnant East Germantown woman who was allegedly str ...
14 years ago
Post-Sandy, new Atlantic City ad campaign beckons tourists
Atlantic City is embarking on a new ad campaign. The goal is to tell people that the resort town hasn’t sustained the kind of storm ...
14 years ago
Philadelphia DA: beware thieves and shopping scams
The holidays are near and Philadelphia’s District Attorney says along with new toys, there are new schemes to separate you from you ...
14 years ago
Before there was Martha Stewart, Philadelphia had Mrs. Goodfellow
As home cooks around the region are heating up their kitchens for Thanksgiving, many will wish they had taken a class to learn how to mak ...
14 years ago
ListenDoll museum embodies passion for history, hope for future
Recent talk of development along the north corridor of Broad Street has one of the area’s cultural mainstays cautiously hopeful to ...
14 years ago
Will a North Broad revival help historic Freedom Theatre?
Freedom Theatre has friends in high places. Denzel Washington called its training program “unique and exciting” in a c ...
14 years ago
Farmer’s Market overhaul gets underway as Chestnut Hill’s gourmet food scene prepares to expand
Construction work hasn’t even begun yet on Bowman Properties’ project at 8200 Germantown Ave., and the grocery store-retail-c ...
14 years ago
Video shows police questioning man legally carrying gun on Manayunk’s Main Street
Joshua Rodriguez said he knows the laws. On Nov. 8, Rodriguez, a resident of Roxborough, parked his car on the 4200 block of Main ...
14 years ago
Weavers Way community pitches in to help Hurricane Sandy victims in New Jersey
Anne-Marie D’Onofrio has seen her fair share of hurricanes. During an 11-year stint in Kill Devil Hills, a city on an island ...
14 years ago