In 2011, fair food decided to bring its mission of uniting local farmers with businesses and consumers to a broader audience with the first Philly Farm and Food Fest (PF3). Held at Reading Terminal Market, the celebration of the Philadelphia area’s local food system brought together farmers, makers, butchers, artisans and educators in the local
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"Sale" in big block letters reads a sign inside a window at the H&M at 17th and Walnut. On the discount racks hang shirts, sweaters and T-shirts in a wide variety of styles for as little as $5 each. For $6, a new dress can be yours; for $9, a new pair of jeans.For the
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As the old saying goes, what goes around comes around, and in the fashion industry, that is definitely true. If you are over 40, you see the same styles of clothing that you wore as a teenager being worn by today’s adolescents. Ron Wilch, Philadelphia fashion designer—and stepfather of hip-hop legend Eve—is taking full advantage
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Some people call me a "scrapper.” Some people call me a "garbage picker.” I call myself “Philly Green Man, Environmental Superhero.”It’s hard to say exactly where it began. I had what people would consider a respectable job, teaching architecture for nine years with some of the greatest students in Dobbins High School history. But even
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It wasn’t long ago that a budding environmentalist had only a handful of choices in higher education. But about a decade ago, this all began to change. As sustainability became a major cultural watchword, many students—some new to academia, some returning after losing jobs—were searching for a modern kind of major, and the stage was
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There was little public fanfare when Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell’s bill establishing new parking regulations in the Mantua section of West Philadelphia passed, easily, in City Hall.As any Philadelphian will tell you, parking is perhaps the most contentious issue in the entire city—and Blackwell has often acted as the commander-in-chief of parking wars, most recently fighting
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As a preschool teacher at Moonstone in South Philadelphia, Kate Leibrand was always thinking of new, creative lessons to do with her students. After mastering the art of papier-mâché, Play-Doh making, and the always-popular slime, she attempted to make chalk with her class. It was a disaster.“Between inaccurate measuring and drying times, we were left
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"Subversive cards and other awesome sh*t,” read artist Katie Novak’s business card at the Go West Craft Fest at The Woodlands Cemetery, 4000 Woodland Avenue, a gathering with the liveliness of a Bruegel painting, splashed with light and laughter and layered with the scent of organic edibles and spring buds, against a backdrop of tombstones.
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After watching 2016’s Hidden Figures, a movie that documents the contributions made by three brilliant African-American women to the space race, then-10-year-old Cordelia Dunston decided that she wanted to be an engineer. Her father, who works on Drexel’s campus, heard about a program called TechShopz, managed by the nonprofit TechGirlz, and led by Drexel’s chapter
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The Department of Homeland Security’s “zero tolerance policy” for undocumented immigrants crossing into the United States has caused a major uproar around the country. The protests intensified as images of children being held in cages started to circulate on social media. People across the nation could not believe that our country would do such horrible
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