Neon’s Alive
We're nuts about vintage neon. The modern and retro stuff, not so much until we saw Rob Lybeck's photo essay on neon signs around town > more
Your Friendly Neighborhood Music Venue: More Than A Harbinger
How a thoughtful music venue can turn around a neighborhood, photos of the demolition of Mt. Olive AME Church in G-Ho, the promises and woes of banks' "short" sales, and shrinking visions for one Delaware waterfront tower > more
New On The Market
The urban farmers market movement a decade old, Angela Taurino gives us tour of what's new this year at Philadelphia's markets--new locations in Mt. Airy, South Philadelphia, Norris Square, and at the Porch at 30th Street Station > more
Progress At 19th Street Baptist
With training provided by the Bucks County-based LimeWorks.us, which specializes in hydraulic lime mortar, volunteers stabilized the church's north wall > more
Left To The Archeologists
What's left of David Guinn's 2001 mural “Autumn (a.k.a Your House in the Forest)” at Ninth and Bainbridge is about to be lost for good > more
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