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As Philadelphia residents spend the summer in green spaces like Wissahickon Valley Park and Fairmount Park, city and state experts are warning the public to be mindful of increasing tick activity.
Yazmine Acosta didn’t know it, but the paddle she held in her hand was shaped like a key to the past, and just maybe the future as well.
The best pizza I ever ate was the large Mediterranean pie created by Anthony “Tony” Christopher Iaquinto in his family’s pizzeria, Tony’s Pizza City.
Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion in Germantown, the only Victorian-era house museum in Philadelphia, is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
A robust range of plays is scheduled for Northwest theatergoers in a 2025-2026 season varied enough to rival the stage fare offered in Center City.
The CHCA's Movies Under the Stars series returns with four films in August. By coincidence, the first film in the series will also be featured that same night at Mt. Airy CDC’s Moonlight Movie.
The Harry Potter Festival will once again take over Chestnut Hill as the destination, located just outside of Center City in the Northwest section of Philadelphia, mystically morphs into Hogsmeade for ...
Ellen Fishman-Johnson, who teaches art and new media at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, has composed an innovative opera in which the audience chooses what comes next. by Peter Crimmins The new ...
Peter Randall, 91, formerly of Chestnut Hill, a plastic surgeon, died Nov. 16 at Foulkeways in Gwynedd, where he had been a resident for the past 15 years. Dr. Randall was a former chairman of … ...
By Pete Mazzaccaro Leroy Wilson, a handyman who did work in the East Mt. Airy home of Regina Holmes, was convicted of her murder last Friday, May 5. Holmes, 85, who was killed on June 27, 2015, was a ...
Chef Al Paris is getting away from running a restaurant and will use his years of expertise to coach other business owners. (Photo by April Lisante) by April Lisante Something beautiful has happened ...
Helen, an 8-year-old Pit Bull Terrier, was saved from probable euthanasia by Sam’s Hope in Wyndmoor. [/caption] by Marianne Iaquinto Ed. Note: Marianne Iaquinto is the founder of Sam’s Hope, a 501 (c) ...