Philadelphian Jon McGoran’s “The Price of Everything” is in the running against 11 others for a $13,550 prize. “Climate change is the biggest threat humanity faces, and we have been tragically ...

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Please be sure to check the event organizer’s website for any last-minute changes or cancellations prior to attending. Have an event that will fit well on our calendar? Submit it here!

March 14 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm ...

The Global Water Alliance’s (GWA) 18th Annual Conference Levers for Progress to Strengthen Water Sustainability and Public Health, co-hosted by the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel ...

In the 340 years since Philadelphia’s founding, the city’s landscape has constantly shifted, as waves of development and redevelopment shipped out with the old and in with the new. Unfortunately, on ...

Myriam Siftar cried tears of joy. It was March 2012, and she was at the grand opening of Mariposa Food Co-op’s new home, a Greek-revival style former bank building on Baltimore Avenue in West ...

Samara Banks was the life of the party. Everyone waited for her to arrive at family gatherings, knowing that she would be the one to rally her cousins and entertain the crowd with a song or dance.

In the spring of 2024 the board of trustees of Parks & Rec Heroes, previously known as the Philadelphia Parks Alliance, voted to wind down the organization’s operations. Originally called Friends of ...

Ordering takeout from your favorite neighborhood spot is a treat. What’s not a treat? The disposable packaging that’s used for pretty much every to-go order. Whether you’re digging into a burger and ...

In the early 1700s, botanist John Bartram surveyed his farmland abutting the banks of the Schuylkill River in what is now Southwest Philadelphia and had an idea: build a garden for his beloved plants.

Crushing poverty, corruption and gang violence drive the exodus of undocumented minors, especially from Central America. “Most of the kids are fleeing some type of violence,” says Rachel Rutter of ...