BUILDINGS - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Jyoti Indian Foods to open in Mount Airy

Kevin Belmonte, a builder, was applying finishing touches to the about-to-open eat in-/take out Indian restaurant, Jyoti, pronounced “joy tea’ in Mount Airy. Belmonte has been acquainted with the husband…

January 3, 2013

BUILDINGS libraries

Patrons find Chestnut Hill library closed due to staff shortage

John Rauch and other library patrons arrived at the Chestnut Hill Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia early Monday afternoon and unexpectedly found it closed. A sign posted in…

December 19, 2012

Books BUILDINGS HOUSING

Why Thoreau went to the woods

On a walk around Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts we stopped at the site where Thoreau had built his cabin. I asked another tourist if she might not read aloud…

October 21, 2012

ART BUILDINGS DANCE

Dances midst sculpture: Philly Fringe

Watch video here. Ellie Goudie-Averill of Stone Depot Dance Lab performs structured and improvisational dances amidst art installations in the warehouse space of Pieri Creations in the …

September 18, 2012

ANIMALS BUILDINGS NATURE

Swifts descend school chimney

Chimney swifts by the hundreds, perhaps thousands, gather swirl in a circle around the tall chimney at the J.S. Jenks Middle School in Chestnut Hill. The circle becomes denser and…

September 5, 2012

ART BUILDINGS ENVIRONMENT

Chestnut Hill mural is artist’s romp-l’oeil of Wissahickon Valley

I ask mural artist Ann Norththrup to take a break and hold up her paint-spattered hands. We chat about the watercolor she painted of the Wissahickon Park that she and her crew of helpers are now installing on the wall of Bredenbeck's Bakery, the first mural in Chestnut Hill, Northwest Philadelphia. Watch video here.

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July 14, 2012

BUILDINGS BUSINESS Children

From Kickboxing to Childcare: Children of America opens in Chestnut Hill

Children of America greeters with Mascot Bentley Watch video tour and interview here. Assistant Director Katie McDonnell and coworker Mary Catherine of the Lansdale Children of America “Educational Childcare and…

June 17, 2012

BUILDINGS HISTORY INTERNATIONAL

Argentine bases Philly visit from Chamonix Mansion

Alejandro Martinez, an Argentine who works in the agricultural field, was staying in the American Youth Hostel Chamonix Mansion in Fairmount Park while taking in the historical sites of Philadelphia.…

May 14, 2012

BUILDINGS Current Affairs Life and Death

Quiet fallen firefighter played “Prince Charming”

Bishop McDevitt High School Admissions Director Christopher Seifert smiles recalling the memory of former schoolmate Daniel Sweeney. The young Philadelphia firefighter died from injuries suffered battling a blaze in a…

April 12, 2012

ART BUILDINGS NATURE

Skyspace for new Friends Meeting in Chestnut Hill

This is a sky space in Pomona in California and I think these are houses maybe in Connecticut. I’m not quite sure. But his work is all over the…

January 9, 2012