Manayunk artist Tom Sonnenberg makes beautiful eggshell mosaics. He believes he's among a small number of people in the United States who practice the art. The technique, he says, originated…
Sam Rhoads tastes a special cookie-like “Cake”, again, after a fifty year hiatus. Here he is at the Historic Wyck House and Garden annual new year tea. Rhoads, treasurer of…
A large electric transformer crashed down on the unit block of West Walnut Lane June 29th, 2025 during a thunderstorm. The storm was marked by the sudden onset of very…
The Lantern Theater Company gets ready to renovate its new location in Mt. Airy. The Lantern, a well-known professional theater troupe based at St Stephen’s Church in downtown Philadelphia, is…
Awbury Arboretum on Friday night, April 26,2013 was one of many venues set up throughout the city for stargazing as part of the 10 day Philadelphia Science Festival. A few…
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.…
During a break from cultivating and weeding a raised bed of peas at the Weavers Way Henry Got Crops farm in Roxborough where he volunteers, your correspondent captured a slice…
For the third year in a row, Joel Fath and Mira Adornetto of Philly Seed Exchange, set up their table top with seeds and small brown envelopes for packing and…
Marsha Isard of Mount Airy (left) and a fellow gardener, not shown, get an early start planting lettuce, spinach, peas, beets, and radishes in their community garden plots at…
Grace Kelly Herbert [center] founder of Finding Shelter http://findingshelter.org, a no-kill foster based animal rescue operation based in Norristown and current “foster parents” like Chava Spivak-Birndorf [left] seek permanent homes…
A few days after the start of the Pennsylvania trout season on March 30th, Naiyfuz Smith shows off the rainbow trout he caught in the Wissahickon Creek with his grandfather…
Ed Hille, a staff photographer for the Philadelphia Inquirer was at the Allens Lane Art Center on Wednesday April 3rd taking photos for a future story about the “Vision through…
While taking a leisurely, easy bike ride along the relatively flat Forbidden Drive, my daughter and I were amazed to see a young man atop a unicycle on the opposite…