Let’s take a healthy stroll in the park together! Join your neighbors every Thursday, Friday, or Saturday morning for a healthy and empowering stroll on the Tacony Creek Park trail. On Fridays, we meet from 9:00am–10:00 am at the E Tabor & E Olney Ave Gateway of the park. All are welcome to join us
MoreA CULTURAL EXPERIENCE Family Fun, Guest Speakers, Fashion & Talent Showcase Vendors,Food, EDUTAINMENT Hosted: Bigga Dre “Amun Sen Hotep Re” Over 60 years, first begining as individuals and later in marriage, Dr. Rosalind and Leonard Jeffries have began their Great and Majestic Walk with African Peoples and our Great Culture. Their Walk has spanded more
MoreJoin us on June 22nd for ASHM’s Midsommarfest! Midsommar is one of Sweden’s most important holidays and a day to rejoice in the coming of summer at a time when daylight is at its longest. Following tradition, Swedes decorate with greenery and flowers as they sing songs and dance around the maypole, celebrating the start
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Our first all outdoor Now + Then Marketplace of the year, taking place at the recently reopened Greensgrow Farm, that has been closed for over 2 years in Fishtown. The NKCDC is resuming activity at the farm with programming and our market is the first big event since the gates have reopened. The market is
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Join the American Swedish Historical Museum (ASHM) for this fundraising dinner to celebrate our 2024 Outstanding Achievement Award Honoree, chef Ulrika Bengtsson. Guests will enjoy hors d’oeuvres, drinks, and a three-course dinner by Jeffery A. Miller Catering. The Spring Ting Dinner and Auction raises critical funding for exhibitions and educational programs at ASHM. The silent
MoreThe Trump administration has openly questioned climate science, but there are more reasons to be concerned about the president’s budget proposal by Jared Brey Three years ago, after decades of waiting and pestering city officials to do something, residents of Bridesburg, a riverside community in Philadelphia between Frankford and the great Northeast, met at a
MoreIllustration by Anne Lambelet 1. Try out a new neighborhood spotSpring usually brings many restaurant openings, and two to try are The Lab in Fishtown and Second District Brewing in Newbold. 2. Weed grass on walkways or sidewalksThe grass has been growing since February, which means it won’t be long at all before it goes
MorePhilly Releases Action Guide After Trump’s Executive Order on Climate ChangeMayor Jim Kenney released a response in late March to the Trump administration’s executive order aimed at rolling back climate change programs and regulations. The order includes directing the Environmental Protection Agency to rescind the Clean Power Plan, aimed at reducing carbon emission from power
MoreGarden Supply Hot Spots by Laura Everard Whenever you talk to gardeners, regardless of who they are, where they live and what kind of garden they have, they always have the garden center that they swear by, and they tend to get very “Sharks and Jets” about the whole situation. I don’t claim to have
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Drinking & Riding by Justin Klugh Philadelphia has no shortage of home brewers. But not every tech specialist, contractor or middle school teacher who goes home to a distillery in their garage has the know-how of commercial business to take the next step in a crowded craft beer universe. “How do I do that without
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