2016 - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Lyft Driver solicits business from riders

James drives for Lyft so he has the time to talk to his passengers about credit and pitch his company's services (FES Protection Plan) for credit restoration for a monthly…

December 31, 2016

Family HOUSING NonProfits

Family moves into their Habitat Home

Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County, PA supported by a coalition of community partners including AmeriCorps National Community Service members along with sweat equity put in by the Thompson family…

December 16, 2016

Games INTERNET Sports

Football is Female Commissioner’s Fantasy

In 2013, Kim Hyunh got so tired of hearing about fantasy football from the guy she was then dating that she joined his league. He was the league commissioner and…

October 7, 2016

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Incense smoke art and vintage typewriters at Chestnut Hill Fall for Arts Festival

Bryan Kravitz, retired from repairing typewriters for 22 years, recently got back into the business when he heard Edward Snowden say that you can't keep secrets on a computer but…

October 5, 2016

ENVIRONMENT Food and Drink NonProfits

The foraging gourmet and the wild foodie

Lynn Landes, founder of the Wild Foodies of Philadelphia joins with Chef Jeff Miller of the eponymous catering company to forage for wild plants in the fields of the Weavers…

September 26, 2016

FASHION STYLE WOMEN

Mail Carrier wears tank top to beat heat

Kalam Shaheen a new United States Postal Service mail carrier hasn't yet received an official uniform allowance so when a guy came around the Post Office [in the hot weather]…

September 15, 2016

BUSINESS ENTERTAINMENT EVENTS

Mount Airy Village Fair draws crowds

The annual Mount Airy Village Fair centered around the Greene and Carpenter Street intersection in the Mount Airy section of Northwest Philadelphia featured a variety of vendors and organizations and…

September 14, 2016

BUSINESS HEALTH WORK

Meet these local soapmakers

Watch video here. Tim Minor and Theresa Peoples who originally were in IT fields started a bath and body business 14 years ago because they wanted soap where good ingredients…

August 4, 2016

ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM

Periscope viewers aid baby sparrow rescue

At our neighborhood train station my son and I heard lots of frantic chirping then saw a baby bird on the concrete ground. It appeared to have fallen from the…

July 30, 2016

Current Affairs PERSONAL GROWTH Poverty

She helps people find work

Sandy Ellis-Johnson, an interviewer at the Pa Career Link in Germantown (Philadelphia) office for helping people get jobs is the first staffer a person meets. According to Ellis-Johnson, employees laid…

July 30, 2016