October, 2014 - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Lisa’ Army- Pumpkin Race to help cancer patients

According to her Dad, Bill, when Lisa Loonstyn was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 20, she accelerated the process of having a baby in expectation that she would need…

October 25, 2014

EVENTS POLITICS

Started Free Dominion Party, seeking seat on Philly Council

Michael Galganski is the founder of the Free Dominion Political Party. At the Philadelphia 12th Democratic Party Ward meeting on October 2, 2014, he announced he is running for the Philadelphia…

October 13, 2014

ART EVENTS Photography

Young photography profs open their studio

Sarah Kaufman, Vita Litvak and June Yong Lee are photographers who teach at area colleges and share a spacious, well-lit third floor studio space at Kendrick Mill in the Germantown…

October 13, 2014

ART Children ENTERTAINMENT

Weaving with fabric Harry Potter style

Melissa Maddonni Haims led kids in weaving the fence at the J.S Jenks School in Chestnut Hill with colorful strips of fabric as part of the community’s annual Fall for…

October 10, 2014

ANIMALS Education Food and Drink

Mondays without meat

At the Chestnut Hill Fall for the Arts Festival, a Humane Society advocate asked people to try going “meatless” on Mondays as a step toward ending the keeping and killing…

October 10, 2014

Current Affairs INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

Scot reflects on “No” vote on independence

Andrew, a Scotsman who has been out of the country for the past few years, says he probably would have voted in favor of independence from Great Britain in the…

October 10, 2014