Veterans still serving at home
If you are having a barbecue or picnic to commemorate Memorial Day, you might be missing the point, according to a leader of one local veterans post. "Many people think that...
As two become one
With just weeks to go before they close their doors for the last time as separate, single-sex schools, students, teachers and administrators at St. John Neumann and St. Maria Goretti high schools...
Man of the world
South Philadelphia native Thomas Foglietta, the former congressman and U.S. Ambassador to Italy, recently earned another prestigious political post -- Honorary U.S. Consul to South Korea. "I have been fortunate to...
Claws for alarm
Swarms of birds viciously attacked people near San Francisco in Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror movie The Birds. South Philly is experiencing an East Coast version of the scary creatures, although on...
Heaven help him
Chestnut Hill playwright and TV scribe Dick Goldberg is staging the world premiere of his new drama, God of Desire, at InterAct Theatre Company. The question in his play is straightforward: Is...
Gardens could be pruned
The timing couldn't have been more ironic. During a fundraiser earlier this month to benefit an award-winning community garden on the 2000 block of Fitzwater Street, part of the land was sold...
Cap graduation with class
May is one of the most beautiful months in Philadelphia. The flowers and trees are in full bloom and the stage is set to salute the class of 2004. Although parents toss...
Social fabric
A bustling atmosphere and a glee club's melodic strains of the hymn How Great Thou Art greet a visitor to the South Philadelphia Older Adult Center. A question immediately becomes obvious:...
Extra credits
CAPA students are ready to turn Broad Street into Broadway when they perform their school's ninth annual spring theatrical production this week. The High School for the Creative and Performing Arts,...
Finally, old Home becoming new homes
Last Friday, City Hall and the Historical Commission once again looked over and listened to the plans that Huntingdon Valley-based Toll Brothers has for the former Naval Home on Grays Ferry Avenue....
