Bond of brothers
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When Evelyn Mercer (Fionnula Flanagan) is brutally murdered in a liquor-store robbery, the cops chalk it up to wrong place, wrong time. But her sons know better.
Having spent some...
Seeing through colored glasses
Just as Kodak announces it will no longer manufacture photographic paper for black-and-white negatives, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is opening a show celebrating the early pioneers of color photography. "Mavericks of...
Aya’s Café
Aya's Café opened several weeks ago in Logan Square. This was well-received because my family and I live in Logan Square and have lamented for years on the lack of a good neighborhood...
Get an ear full
Like tomatoes, peppers and potatoes, corn is a New World food. Native Americans called it "mahiz," which Europeans translated as maize. It is difficult to imagine the summer without corn. Lancaster County and...
Stitch in time
When Octo Design Group owner Wendy Verna decided to relocate her business from its 12th and Callowhill street location last year, she could have gone anywhere. But the 36-year-old graphic designer chose 803...
Procession for peace
The Aztecs Pop Warner North Philly football team will march down Broad Street Saturday afternoon as part of the inaugural Family Fun Day & Bike Fest. The event will be held later that...
Bright future
Amid a refreshing breeze and mid-morning sunshine, Marilyn Paige contently reads a newspaper in a shaded section of Marconi Plaza. The resident of the 2400 block of Carlisle Street basks in the sun,...
Hot sun in the summertime
A combination of the sun's scorching rays and oppressive humidity July 27 was not a deterrent for Lou Garbarino. During the hottest day of the month, he patiently waited for his free fan,...
Escape to a Hybrid
To most observers, the 2006 Ford Escape I'm currently piloting is just one more gas-guzzling SUV, indistinguishable from the thousands of others around me. But this is a land barge with a difference:...
Rebels with a cause
Of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence, five were captured by the British as traitors and tortured before they died, 12 had their homes ransacked and burned and nine fought...
