Photograph courtesy of Unsplash.com By Nicolas Esposito Our City Sanitation system is broken. It was broken before Covid-19 and the cracks are now beginning to give way to a full breakdown of the system due to the pandemic as both trash and recycling pickups are consistently delayed. The reason my former office, the City’s Zero
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Black is Beautiful collaboration cans. Photograph courtesy of Two Locals Brewing By Jaclyn Zeal While the craft beer renaissance has generated an uptick in breweries throughout Philadelphia (with as many as 16 new breweries opening in 2019 alone), Rich and Mengistu Koilor are on a mission to add to the city’s thriving beer scene by
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Photography by Milton Lindsay Cutting Edge By Siobhan Gleason When Greg Fuguet looks at a piece of storm-damaged lumber, he can already picture what shape it will take in its next life as a piece of art. After years of woodworking, Fuguet has developed his observational skills. He can determine how a tree will need
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If you can keep your cynicism in check, corporate displays of support for Black Lives Matter can seem admirable, sometimes even moving. When done authentically, companies are holding a mirror to themselves, deciding that they are not doing enough to address racial injustice, and committing to make change. Some of these vows are genuine and
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Photograph courtesy of Unspalsh.com Meat your Maker By: Siobhan Gleason JBS meatpacking worker Carmen Dominguez is concerned about her co-workers’ health during COVID-19. Her colleagues Wilbert Rivera and Enock Benjamin died from COVID-19 this April after 19 workers at the Souderton, Pennsylvania plant tested positive for the virus. Dominguez felt it was important to speak
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I don’t think i would have noticed that the patch of forest off Livesey Lane had been restored if Steve Jones, president of Wissahickon Restoration Volunteers (WRV), hadn’t told me. I visited the area on a humid morning in late May. The canopy was complete, shading out the sun completely. I heard the usual forest
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Photograph courtesy of Netflix By Francesca Furey If you’ve been binging Netflix shows while social distancing at home, you might’ve come across Queer Eye’s 5th season — based right here in Philadelphia. The Fab Five spruced up the lives of 10 inspiring Philadelphians, including 19-year-old Abby Leedy, a staff organizer at the Sunrise Movement. The
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Photography by Milton Lindsay Grant Blvd set to open first storefront this month By Gabrielle Houck When you walk into Grant Blvd’s new storefront in West Philadelphia, owner Kimberly McGlonn wants you to feel like you’re at home. She says the sustainable clothing company’s new retail space is essentially a manifestation of the brand’s identity
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Photography courtesy Lora Snyder Troubled Waters By Siobhan Gleason On February 12, 2018, Delaware County residents along the Mariner East 2 pipeline route received a letter from Sunoco Pipeline LP, a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Operating LP, about a groundwater problem. Sunoco had punctured a local aquifer that residents of Edgmont Township relied on for
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