INTERNATIONAL - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Lead keeper welcomes giraffes

Two bull giraffes, 3-year-old Dhoruba and 10-month-old Jukuu, are making their official debut this Memorial Day weekend at the Elmwood Park Zoo, according to the Lansdale Reporter. They are on…

May 26, 2013

INTERNATIONAL Religion

Krishna Devotee engages Afghan immigrant

A passerby sat down and engaged in a long conversation with Dwija Mani, a Brahmacari monk of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, who was camped with a display near…

May 24, 2013

Children DANCE Education

Children learn ballroom dance from Champ

Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Estonian and Italian can be heard spoken as mothers of these heritages prepare their 5, 6 and 7 year olds for a ballroom dancing class at the Water…

May 18, 2013

Current Affairs INTERNATIONAL MILITARY

Korean laundress wary yet hopeful about Koreas

Christina Lee of BonLynn Cleaners was listening to a Korean language radio station when I asked her about the current tense situation in the Koreas. Lee came to the U.S.…

April 27, 2013

ART DANCE ENTERTAINMENT

Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival – beautiful!

April 15, 2013

BUSINESS Current Affairs ENVIRONMENT

During a break substitute teaching at Parkway Northwest High School in Mount Airy, Renaud Dardignac speaks with your correspondent about current conditions in his homeland, Haiti. He laments the poor…

March 21, 2013

African-American Education Elderly

Studies Tajweed, taking family to Mecca

Rashid Abdul/Majid, a practicing Muslim, turns to his Arabic language books during breaks in his substitute-teaching class schedule on a recent day at Parkway Northwest High School in Mount Airy.…

February 14, 2013

DANCE Elderly INTERNATIONAL

Israeli folk dancing Mount Airy

Although Rachel Wolok was exposed to Israeli dancing as a child, it was not until she had moved from Israel to the United States and was older that she had…

January 25, 2013

BUILDINGS BUSINESS Food and Drink

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

DANCE INTERNATIONAL Music

West Philly Orchestra rocks the Art Museum

The West Philadelphia Orchestra entertained an enthusiastic and dancing crowd of youngsters and oldsters for a Chanukah celebration at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on a December Friday night as…

December 29, 2012