On Saturday, Philadelphia Cambodians observed Ancestors Day, the reunion of ancestral spirits with the living. It’s the holiest day of the year in Cambodian Buddhism, and, for the first time in South Philly, it was celebrated at a Buddhist temple that looks like a Buddhist temple. Under a canopy outside the newly renovated Preah Buddha [...]
http://www.geocities.com/arvcondor/hollipop.mp3
There’s nowhere to go from here but down.
Opponents to an alternative high school for troubled teens in the East Falls section of Philadelphia should not all be written off as NIMBY reactionaries.
A recent public hearing between the private school operator Delaware Valley High School (DVHS) and local residents brought out a host of concerns. In a recent Philadelphia Inquirer story, it [...]
From CP:
In early 2007, the East Park Revitalization Alliance (EPRA), a community nonprofit in Strawberry Mansion, decided to tackle the nutrition vacuum in the neighborhood, one of Philly’s poorest. A produce stand comes to an adjacent neighborhood, but only once a week, and only during the growing season. To really get any food besides the [...]
The Francisville section of lower North Philly has remained largely untouched by the sort of development that tends to usher in gentrification. But at a neighborhood meeting on Friday, 95 percent of attendees voted to allow chic developer Onion Flats to build a super-sustainable five-story residential building at the long-overgrown corner of 19th and Wylie [...]
…and gives advice whose lucidity could only come from a conversation with children:
“Discipline, Alex and Tanieka, is the prerequisite for accuracy and fairness, which add up to integrity. To make sure you’ve got the story right, you learn to report against your own story. Check your facts, not only with the people who are likely [...]
It’s 10:30 AM on Sunday and my all-night attendance at the Summer Solstice at the Kimmel Center included a lack of sleep that blurred night into drum-circle dawn into day. I apologize in advance for any ramblings. Sleep deprivation’s creative powers, a recipe combining dopiminergic stimulation and delerious logic, has been known to be both [...]
My girlfriend called it a “Zoe Strauss” moment. I can’t disagree:
Normally I would assume them to simply be homeless, but the pink hat and other elderly-chic elements make me think they went shopping and just had a geriatric sleep attack on their way home.
Last Wednesday morning, Dennis Crowley received a text message from his employees at the Gold Standard Café saying that their building had received a radical new paint job. The café, at 48th and Baltimore streets, was in its fourth week of operation. By the time Crowley arrived, employees had begun removing the splotches of silver. [...]