Image via readingterminalmarket.orgThis week, join the Reading Terminal Market in celebrating the latest updates to this historical local food landmark. With more than $3 million in renovations completed, the market now boasts an updated demo kitchen, larger bathrooms and additional floor space to house new vendors, including: Valley Shepard Creamery, The Tubby Olive, The Head
MoreThe Wissahickon Gorge of Wissahickon Creek Park is great for hiking, biking, and fishing. | Photo Credit: Friends of Wissahickon (http://www.fow.org/)Summer weather and extra daylight mean one thing: time to get outside. And what better place to do it than our own Schuylkill River! While perhaps best known for their bike and running paths, the
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story by Lucas HardisonHang out with brewers long enough and eventually you’ll hear one say “brewers make wort, yeast makes beer.” False modesty aside, there’s a lot of truth to that. It’s not just booze and bubbles our fine fermenting friends are putting out, it’s the esters and phenols (and other, sometimes less desirable, compounds)
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story by Suzanne LevyEvery week, on Friday night, something close to a miracle happens at our house.
My 12- and 15- year old stepdaughters turn off their cell phones, unplug from Facebook and step away from the TV. My four-year-old daughter even stops whining to play a game on my computer.
The reason? Our humble tradition of
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Hollywood Rides a Bike: Cycling with the Stars, by Steven Rea, Angel City Press, 160 pp., $20.
Take a ride back in time and pay homage to classic wheels. Steven Rea, film critic for the Philadelphia INquirer and professor at Drexel University, initially took his love for cinema and cycling to the internet in NOvember 2010
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One of Tim Gaudreau’s “Lost Posters” looks for missing coniferous forrest. | Photo Credit: Gersham YThere’s a new art exhibition in town, and its turning heads! Turn Here, a collection of environmentally-themed art, is now on display at the Borowsky Gallery of the Gershman Y. The exhibit features four artists, including Philadelphia-local Amie Potsic. The
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Founded in 1966 as a program of the Bicycle Coalition, Neighborhood Bike Works is now the leading nonprofit educational organization for empowering Philadelphia youth in underserved neighborhoods through bicycling. Their flagship program, Earn-A-Bike, teaches youth basic bike repair and maintenance skills, safe urban riding practices, and lessons on health and nutrition, all while refurbishing a
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story by Shaun BradyIn 1972, there were no bike lanes in Philadelphia. There was no way to cross the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on a bicycle, and SEPTA had banned bikes from all their buses, trains and trolleys. Even the few trails that existed weren’t connected. But while the climate was bleak for cyclists, it was
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story by Char VandermeerHeat can beat even the most conscientious of gardeners. All it takes is consecutive 100-degree days to reduce cucumbers and tomatoes to sad piles of shriveled leaves and cracked fruits. But even though the best way to avoid heat damage is to keep roots cool, and the best way
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story by Samantha WittchenFACT: Americans are estimated to buy as many as 12 million car seats a year.
PROBLEM: Kids outgrow car seats, and the seats have expiration dates (usually five to six years after manufactured), as the materials eventually degrade from ultraviolet light exposure. So, parents generally buy multiple car seats for their children during
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