CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Karl Marx returns from the dead

Actor and activist Robert Weick stars in the one man show “Marx in Soho,” based on the fantastical conceit that Karl Marx bargains with the authorities in the afterlife to…

October 3, 2022

BUILDINGS Current Affairs HISTORY

1903 Chestnut Hill stone building demolished for townhouse development

Experienced operating engineer demolishes historic but not historically registered stone building as part of controversial plan to replace it with 8 four story townhouses in Chestnut Hill neighborhood of northwest Philadelphia

June 28, 2022

Books BUILDINGS HISTORY

Anecdotes brighten tour of Rosebach rare book Museum and Library

Guide Charlie Karl gives anecdote filled tour of the Rosenbach rare book Museum and LIbrary on Delancey Place in downtown Philadelphia.

June 20, 2022

ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT

🐝 Beekeeper captures honeybee swarm

At the Historic Wyck House a beekeeper carefully collected a large clump of honeybees that had swarmed from one the hives he keeps there.

May 18, 2022

Current Affairs ENTERTAINMENT EVENTS

Playing online game, she attacks Russian web servers

At a bake sale in support of Ukraine, a woman plays an online game that attacks Russian web servers important to Russia's military in its invasion of Ukraine.

March 24, 2022

BUILDINGS CHESTNUT HILL Construction

New construction will shadow historic Chestnut Hill Baptist Church cemetery

A neighbor reflects on the historic Chestnut Hill Baptist Church cemetery, an open space for the neighborhood, which is about to be overshadowed by 5 story condominium complex.

January 18, 2022

BUILDINGS Construction HISTORY

Finds from a collapsed dairy barn

Chey Bouson helps her friends rescue stuff from a collapsed dairy barn to sell at their eclectic farm stand

October 21, 2021

BUILDINGS CARS AND VEHICLES machines

SEPTA bus and aerial bucket lift collide; “no major injuries”

"No major injuries" reported when part of an aerial bucket lift and a SEPTA passenger bus collide on Germantown Avenue in Chestnut Hill.

October 8, 2021

ANIMALS ART Books

3-d paper crafts, fanned book art at Springfield Township Library

Teen librarian Kris DeLabio leads workshops for children in making colorful eye-catching paper sculptures and also recycling old books into fanned book art.

October 5, 2021

FASHION STYLE WORK

Freelance designer loves Italy

Freelance fashion and textile designer loves Italy, Italian wool and her dog,

October 4, 2021

Czech Republic workaway journal

Ethical hacking, parallel police, graffiti art and more on “Alternative Prague” tour

Ukrainian war refugee drives taxi in Prague

Doktor Water mucks out old well

Granddaughter continues tradition at Czech Bead Factory