CLOSE UP Video Interviews

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

HOBBIES NATURE

Plant swappers compete

"You bring a plant or garden-related item and you get an item that you like" explains Diane Olesik who has been coming to the Northwest (Philadelphia) Gardeners Association plant swap…

July 16, 2016

CURRENT AFFAIRS ENVIRONMENT EVENTS

Picnic and paddle to stop the oil trains

Under the watchful eyes of a score of officers from the Philadelphia Police foot and marine patrols, the PA Fish and Game Commission and the US Coast Guard, serious but…

July 9, 2016

MUSIC WORK

Bethlehem and Sad Patrick play music for public

If you've ever had a butterfly collection, "Sad Patrick" says, you know the butterflies didn't die naturally- they were either stuffed in a jar and suffocated or stabbed with a…

July 2, 2016

DANCE EVENTS HISTORY

Merry Pranskters and Pure Jerry reincarnate the Grateful Dead

Watch video here. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters went around the country in the drug fueled 1960s in a school bus encouraging…

July 1, 2016

Storm causes electric transformer to crash down

Lantern Theater gets ready to renovate Mt Airy church sanctuary

Czech Republic workaway journal

Graffiti Art takes the stage on alternative Prague tour

Ukrainian war refugee drives taxi in Prague