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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

Uptown Theater 2240 N. Broad Street. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)
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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

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NW 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

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Doll 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

Community

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

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