WORK - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Popcorn seller sings between Jersey Boys screenings

When Tiffany Gaal is not selling popcorn or sweeping up spilled popcorn at the 100 year-old, one screen Hiway [Movie] Theater in Jenkintown, Pa., she’s auditioning for or appearing in…

July 7, 2014

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Family

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

BUILDINGS Current Affairs Death

Collapse attorney’s tire collapsed by pothole

Driving my daughter from Chestnut Hill to her job in Roxborough Saturday morning, we passed a man making his way on foot down the steep and treacherously narrow, icy shoulder…

February 23, 2014

BUILDINGS Poverty STORES

Goodwill donation center opens in Mount Airy

Saleece came smiling and protectively gloved out of the brand new Goodwill Donation Center in Mount Airy as soon as I pulled up in my car. Located on Lincoln Drive…

February 21, 2014

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

FASHION Funny LOVE

Vet sports LOVE cap

Seventy six year old Mr. Bell, whose granddaughter is often at his home in Mount Airy, didn’t think his granddaughter would mind if he borrowed her cap with the big…

November 4, 2013

Children Current Affairs EVENTS

The Mexican-American and Spanish speaking communities rallied in Norristown Monday evening for immigration reform. They demanded that Congress pass the immigration legislation that is now stalled and overshadowed by the…

September 11, 2013

ART Children DANCE

Dancing puppet delights passersby

Frank Moore, a tall muscular man, pulls on the strings of a 2-foot tall high Tina Turner-esque puppet; it lip-syncs and dances to funky music blaring from his boom box…

July 22, 2013

BUILDINGS HOUSING Public Safety

Installing the new RF smart electric meter

PECO is replacing the existing electric meters in the neighborhood with new remote controlled smart meters using Radio Frequency (RF) transmission. Installer Peter Paige stopped by one morning, as scheduled,…

July 20, 2013

JOURNALISM Religion WORK

Minister pitches Inky subscription

Andy Autrey, a resident of the Hill House in Chestnut Hill, has long been in professional sales – cars, life insurance – and now is pitching subscriptions to the Philadelphia…

June 26, 2013