CLOSE UP Video Interviews

87years old, plays her keyboard on street for donations

Eighty-seven year old Pat Sellers, laid off from the Philadelphia Cricket Club three years ago, has started doing what she has seen young people doing to try to make ends…

August 13, 2014

ANIMALS ART Education

Hog Island Audubon Camp Journal 2014

Your correspondent volunteered for a week cleaning dishes and bathhouses at the Audubon Society Camp on Hog Island off of Bremen, Maine. He collected an old glass bottle encrusted with…

August 2, 2014

Food and Drink Photography

Farm to table photo shoot

Kira Luxon assists Courtney Apple on a photo shoot under the eye of Laura Shoup at the Henry Got Crops Farm in Roxborough for Jeffrey Miller Catering which does many…

July 13, 2014

Books BUILDINGS Funny

Dollhouse size library now open

Renee Polsky of the Friends of the Chestnut Hill Library shows off the "little free library, " a dollhouse-like wooden structure mounted on a post next to the book return…

July 13, 2014

ENTERTAINMENT MOVIES Music

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 Children Education

Homeschooled, they sell snacks at shopping center

Four homeschooled girls are selling snacks and cold drinks four days a week outside the Andorra Shopping Center in Roxborough, Philadelphia. They have been doing this for the last ten…

July 2, 2014

CARS AND VEHICLES Education HEALTH

Drive out suicide

Tova Tenenbaum sports a “Drive Out Suicide” bumper sticker on her car’s hatchback door to make it easy for people to notice. The sticker has a crisis telephone number 1-800-273-TALK…

June 25, 2014

SHOPPING Sports STORES

Pitches air conditioning and buckeye boys

Lee Bierie generates leads for Logan Heating and Cooling at a table inside the Home Depot store in Dublin, Ohio. And he pitches "buckeye boys" handmade by his wife for…

June 20, 2014

ART BUSINESS Death

Coffee Roasters ReAnimate the dead (or sleepy)

The images on "ReAnimator Coffee Roasters" bags of a skeleton reaching up with a bony hand to perhaps clasp a flask containing some potion held high up by a priestlike…

June 10, 2014

BUSINESS Elderly Gardening

Retired CSI cop, “Crazy Ed” sells plants outside his home

After 40 years in the police department Avon "Crazy Ed" Wilson now sells plants outside his home on Chew Ave in Germantown. He had seen enough murder and war in…

June 10, 2014

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