Building a future
The students at YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School know a lot about fresh starts. The North Philly school gives former high-school dropouts, ages 18 to 21, a chance to earn a diploma...
Off to a sobering start
The late Doors leader Jim Morrison sang, "Strange days have found us." The lyric certainly seems to describe the crime streak that has gripped the area in the early weeks of 2004....
Making love and history
The Dreamers
NC-17
Starting tomorrow at Ritz theaters
Three reels out of four
Set in Paris just before the May 1968 student riots, Bernardo Bertolucci's maddeningly imperfect yet fascinating new film, The...
Square grassroots
One of the neighborhoods south of Washington Avenue has a new civic association -- and by association a new name. The Passyunk Square Civic Association held its first official meeting last...
Driving toward survival
A proposed municipal program that would provide college scholarships to city children is not fair to thousands of students, according to Councilman-at-Large James Kenney. The budget Mayor John Street will introduce next...
Finding her Zen
Deana Sabasino enters the room at St. Agnes Wellness Center, removes her coat and fiddles with a few audiocassettes. She finds what she wants and chats gregariously with the women arriving in workout...
The chilling season
Holy guacamole! People are stealing avocados. A recent front-page story in The New York Times told how these thieves in the night -- especially when the moon is full -- drive to California...
Expanding while contracting
The healthcare options in South Philadelphia are about to change again, leaving the community with one less emergency room but with better-focused facilities, according to officials. Executives from the companies that...
Give this show a medal
Anyone who enjoyed Neil Simon's klutzy character Eugene Morris Jerome in Brighton Beach Memoirs can see the sequel to that funny and sensitive autobiographical sketch at the Walnut Street Theatre. Biloxi...