CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Mounted police on patrol in Chestnut Hill

Officers Manuel Lorenzo (left) and Carmello Oquendo (right) were patrolling Chestnut Hill along Highland Avenue astride their mounts. Lorenzo was riding Ruben, a black coated Dutch warmblood and former dressage…

January 10, 2013

BUSINESS Food and Drink HEALTH

Touts Organo Gold coffee

“Organo Gold” coffee is a game–changer, says Derrick Carter, an independent distributor for a line of products including not only coffee but also toothpaste and soap, all containing the Chinese…

January 3, 2013

BUILDINGS BUSINESS Food and Drink

Jyoti Indian Foods to open in Mount Airy

Kevin Belmonte, a builder, was applying finishing touches to the about-to-open eat in-/take out Indian restaurant, Jyoti, pronounced “joy tea’ in Mount Airy. Belmonte has been acquainted with the husband…

January 3, 2013

ENTERTAINMENT Religion Theater

Nativity re-enacted

In Bethlehem, because there was no room at the inn, in a barn Mary had just given birth to a baby boy named Jesus, weighing in at 8 pounds 2…

January 2, 2013

DANCE INTERNATIONAL Music

West Philly Orchestra rocks the Art Museum

The West Philadelphia Orchestra entertained an enthusiastic and dancing crowd of youngsters and oldsters for a Chanukah celebration at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on a December Friday night as…

December 29, 2012

ANIMALS Children HOLIDAY

Pet “reindeer” visits American Legion post for Christmas

Tom Shallow's kids fell in love with "Pocono" at a deer farm in Pennsylvania where deer are bred for their racks and meat and certified as disease free. Saved from…

December 20, 2012

BUILDINGS libraries

Patrons find Chestnut Hill library closed due to staff shortage

John Rauch and other library patrons arrived at the Chestnut Hill Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia early Monday afternoon and unexpectedly found it closed. A sign posted in…

December 19, 2012

ART Books libraries

Esherick designed library stool for her Mom

Carol Isard talks about a library stool created by the renowned wood sculptor and furniture maker Wharton Esherick. Esherick made the stool for Isard's mother, a friend and patron, who…

December 17, 2012

CHESTNUT HILL HOLIDAY SHOPPING

A morning in Chestnut Hill

PASSERSBY REACT TO BOULDER WRAPPED AS CHRISTMAS PRESENT Passersby react to seeing a boulder at the corner of Ardeigh and Evergreen in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, gift wrapped in green…

December 13, 2012

African-American ART EVENTS

They photograph street sounds

Nathea Lee, Anthony Dean and Monica Lyons-Jones (above with a self-portrait) are photographers who, together, form the Philadelphia Street Sounds Collective. Dean likes how the lighting and weather on the…

December 7, 2012

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