An old horse stable in South Philly finds a new function in the fashion world. Stacia Friedman takes a look inside

With the reinvention of the Bok Building well underway, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania give us an exclusive glimpse of school life there in the 1940s

From a towering Gothic house of correction to a busy neighborhood shopping center, the corner block of 11th Street and Passyunk Avenue has undergone quite the transformation since 1967. Jennifer Rogers takes us out of the Acme deli isle and into Moyamensing Prison’s penal past with this month’s Then and Now.

If schools are a key to retaining families, what is Philadelphia to do? Quite a lot, says David Feldman, who takes us inside the parent and community-led movement to invest in ten public elementary schools

Mayor Nutter joined Meryl Levitz and GPTMC this week for a trolley tour through three neighborhoods highlighted in the new Philadelphia Neighborhoods tourism campaign

We catch up with DesignPhiladelphia’s founding director Hilary Jay near her University of the Arts office to get some insight into the eighth festival, which starts next week

An additional floor turns a fine remake of the iconic South Philly corner into a moving piece of contemporary design, writess Nathaniel Popkin

Rittenhouse Square is full of mansions. So is Spring Garden and Fairmount. Dozens survive in North Philadelphia, home of the most gilded robber baron estates. But South Philly? Rachel Hildebrandt discovers three of them on Cross Street, in the heart of the iconic Italian-American neighborhood