BUSINESS - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Landscaper continues family tradition

Fifty years ago, when John Antonucci’s grandfather, Frank, immigrated from Italy and established his masonry business in North Wales, Pa outside Philadelphia, there was just a stop sign outside at…

June 2, 2014

ANIMALS BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

Eating energy bars made from crickets

Weavers Way Food Coop has introduced a new line of energy bars - ones made with crickets. On Tuesday, staff members at the Chestnut Hill store sampled Chapul’s Thai Cricket…

February 26, 2014

BUSINESS Family INTERNET

Money never sleeps: mining litecoins in basement

A father and son "mine" bitcoins and litecoins 24/7 in their unfinished Chestnut Hill basement. These "coins," son explains, are virtual currencies not under the control of any government. As…

December 31, 2013

BUSINESS ENTERTAINMENT Food and Drink

French Bistro Jazz Cafe gets ready to open

Partners Robert Bynum and Chef Al Paris are excited that construction is nearing an end at the long empty site of the former Melting Pot Restaurant and that their French…

December 23, 2013

BUILDINGS BUSINESS Children

How Lego conquered the toy industry brick by brick

The Lego Company has been fantastically successful. In each of the last 5 years sales have risen 24% and profits, 40%. But it was not always so. For most of…

December 16, 2013

African-American BUSINESS Food and Drink

McDonald’s high school worker aims higher

Danielle Taylor of Germantown, a 12th grader home schooled through Agora Cyber Charter School, works 30 hours a week at the Chestnut Hill McDonald’s. She’s paid at the rate of…

December 5, 2013

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Food and Drink

Ploughing new ground at urban farm

Scott Blunk employs a moldboard plow to break new ground at the Henry Got Crops Farm in Roxborough, Philadelphia. Blunk, who worked for the John Deere company at one time,…

November 20, 2013

ART BUSINESS Children

New baby, new studio at CH Fall for the Arts Fest

The youngest person at Chestnut Hill’s Fall for the Arts festival Sunday may have been two day-old Xavier Brubaker. Sleep-deprived but happy parents Japheth and Suzanne recently returned to Chestnut…

October 8, 2013

ANIMALS BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

“Royal” pets get to romp in Wissahickon Park

The dogs being served by Queenies Pets service ("Treating Your Pets Like Royalty") love romping around the Wissahickon Park (offleash) and swimming in the creek, reports Tim Abrams whom I…

August 22, 2013

BUSINESS Education Food and Drink

Herr’s potato chip factory tour

The story goes that in 1853, a restaurant patron at a New York resort who complained of a soggy french fry gave rise to the invention of the potato chip.…

August 14, 2013