By Claire Marie PorterKerry Boland doesn’t remember getting a tick bite. It was 2002 and she was entering her first semester at Georgetown University when she began experiencing flu-like symptoms, which landed her in the emergency room. A short time later, she started experiencing extreme food intolerances. She couldn’t eat gluten without hours of vomiting
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By Claire Marie PorterIt’s the imperfect trees that make a beautiful piece of furniture for John Duffy of Stable Tables. “I don’t really consider myself an artist or anything like that,” Duffy explains. “I’m more of a business person.”Stable Tables, he says, began after he bought a table from a carpenter in Maryland and had to
MoreBy Constance Garcia-Barrio Devaluing black women’s work is a holdover from slavery time. It often cuts our employment opportunities, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank focused on economic issues. The view prevails that women of African ancestry should go on being “…de mule uh de world…” as the acid pen of
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By Meenal RavalThere’s a Global Climate Strike planned for Friday, September 20, days before the United Nations Climate Summit in New York City on September 23. The Global Climate Strike invites people of all ages to strike—by refusing to attend work and school—to disrupt the social order and to push our governments to act on
MoreIt’s all relative. For each person, there is a different set of needs that a wardrobe must fulfill. The landscaper’s wardrobe will be vastly different than the ballerina’s. A better question to explore is, “How do I maintain a healthy relationship with my clothing?” From here, we can do some digging and talk about how
MoreBy Claire Marie PorterDid you know that you can major in sustainability? Colleges and universities all across the nation offer programs on the subject. “A lot of people assume that sustainability is [just] environmentalism. It’s not,” says Rob Fleming, an architect, professor and director in the sustainable design program at Thomas Jefferson University. The term
MoreBy Alexandra JonesThe teen years are an opportune time to learn smart money habits. High school students are on the verge of making big decisions—choosing colleges and career paths, opening bank accounts and sometimes getting their first cars and credit cards—that may have long-term effects on their lives. A few fundamental lessons can set them up
MoreBy Claire Marie PorterRyan Ebner is a construction consultant by day and a cooper by night. In a rented workspace in West Philadelphia, shared with Ice Sculpture Philly, he and his father, Jeff, moonlight amongst smells of smoke and wood.The father-son duo started Anthony Barrel Company in 2015 as a side hustle. Jeff is a
MoreBy Constance Garcia-BarrioFor a black transgender woman, being true to one’s self sometimes exacts a horrific price. One hears little about them unless they make lurid headlines as victims of violence—as did Michelle “Tamika” Washington, shot to death on May 19 in North Philly.
MoreBy Bernard BrownGardeners who have taken a peek inside the hand-sized yellow flowers on their squash plants have probably witnessed what looks like a bee dance party. On smaller flowers, bees perch themselves and deploy their long tongues to suck up the tiny droplets of nectar inside. By contrast, on winter squash plants (like pumpkins, butternuts
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