Scenes From The Opening Of Paine’s Park
A dozen years of planning and organizing produces Philadelphia's first intentional skate park, which opened yesterday > more
Two Paths In The Woods Of The Wissahickon
A look at the treeline course dispute in Wissahickon Valley Park, quilting with film , SEPTA hopeful for more state funding, and forty apartments may be on their way for Washington Avenue > more
Penn Treaty Educational Institute To Chronicle The Riverwards’ Layered History
Penn Treaty Museum to get its own place, “Fading Ads of Philadelphia” author to speak at Atwater Kent, new report aims for safer city parks, and neighbors nix oversized apartments in Bella Vista > more
Jazz City
Philadelphia gets a jazz orchestra, Eastwick to look for solutions to flooding woes, the backlash against the Wisshickon’s gradual privatization, and the latest on the billboard “tug-of-war” > more
Sitting Tight On Old City’s Blight
“Why Philly’s most iconic neighborhood can’t get past the blight,” Please Touch Museum in desparate need for capital flow, Controller gives Parks & Rec a to-do list, and another look at Drexel’s planned Lancaster Square > more
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