Philadelphia
Once friends, Nutter and Kenney at odds
When Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter vetoed a bill lowering the city’s parking tax last week, he killed a measure sponsored by Ji ...
15 years ago
Interim House celebrates its 40th anniversary of offering a “safe place to heal”
Thirteen years ago, Toni Montier didn’t think she’d be where she is today. “When my addiction took off, I lost e ...
15 years ago
Philly City Council revisits teen curfews
After imposing earlier curfews by executive order this summer, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is asking City Council to change the cur ...
15 years ago
U.S. Supreme Court turns down Abu-Jamal resentencing case
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up Mumia Abu-Jamal’s case. The Philadelphia District Attorney’s office had appea ...
15 years ago
My Place Bar, located on the 2100 block of 65th Ave. in East Germantown, was robbed of $800 early last Friday. According to police ...
15 years ago
Learning how to fundraise in tough economic times
For the past three years, the Nonprofit Center at La Salle University’s School of Business has coached struggling Philadelphia nonp ...
15 years ago
City election candidates make their pitches to East Falls community
Ten candidates running for citywide office briefly introduced themselves Monday night to a small cluster of voters from the East Falls se ...
15 years ago
5th District: Another theft reported at Venice Lofts
5th Police District in Philadelphia This list covers Sept. 26 – Oct. 2. —- Featured ...
15 years ago
Gorgas Park’s Harvest Festival honors a neighborhood institution
Standing among hundreds of people at Gorgas Park, John Boyce looks around from under his large brimmed sun hat and predicts that this is ...
15 years ago
Suburban home furnishing store relocates to Chestnut Hill
The definition of hipster as listed in the Dictionary is “a person who follows the latest trends and fashions.” So ...
15 years ago
River Road residents express concern over proposed sewer line installation
The delay in a proposed sewer line to River Road in upper Roxborough has caused some anxiety for residents. Originally scheduled to be co ...
15 years ago
Chestnut Hill gets a new kind of hand dryer
The latest in hand drying technology is available in Chestnut Hill. Over the summer Starbucks installed these $1200 hand dryers that blow ...
15 years ago
Revitalization efforts continue along Germantown’s West Rockland Street, prize money or not
The festivities have ended and the Philadelphia More Beautiful Committee judges are gone, but residents of West Rockland Street in German ...
15 years ago
See the suspects and solve the mystery as the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion hosts its fifth annual murder mystery “A House Divided.̶ ...
15 years ago
It’s your last chance to see some of the best local, national and international art at the 26th Annual October Gallery Philadelphia ...
15 years ago