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Three turtles are waiting in the garden at the Max Myers Playground.
When you were in high school, did you eat everything that got
It was a muggy morning in mid-August and parents were gathered inside
A flock of passenger pigeons rests frozen in time on the third
One in 10 Philadelphia public schools had high lead levels in water
Museumgoers express heartache and outrage on the final day of the Academy of Natural Sciences Museum
Just before 10 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 27, dozens of people stood
Surrounding nearly every suburban business center and office park are swaths of
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The Sunday following Philadelphia’s apocalyptic microburst storm, the Garden Court gardeners gathered late in the day to honor our fallen fruit trees. They sat around the apple stump and shared stories of the shade the tree had offered on hot July days and the roost the branches had made for birds and squirrels. Of the
“1854,” says Jacques-Jean “JJ” Tiziou, with authority, when asked about the origins of Philadelphia’s borders. “That’s when the Consolidation was signed: February 2, 1854.” Good luck finding another Philadelphian who could, on the spot, provide the exact date on which the Consolidation Act transformed the neat rectangle of William Penn’s colonial city — from Vine
Nicole Pepe’s house on the 5100 block of Catharine Street shook as the tree hit it. She had been watching through a window as the fierce winds of the July 11 microburst whipped leaves and bits of roofing shingles in a vortex behind her house. “My husband said, ‘Get in the middle of the house,’”
With the closing of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Drexel University has blundered into a spectacular public relations disaster. I could almost feel sorry for them, had their actions not been so cruel and heartless. When the news first broke, the reaction was a stunned grief. According to Drexel, this beloved museum, the public-facing side
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Meet Craig Santoro, a bike commuter whose trek to work involves constantly dodging cars. From the vehicles parked in bike lanes to the vehicles whizzing by in driving lanes, the city’s streets are always keeping Craig on his toes. Cue the Philadelphia Parking Authority’s bike patrol. Follow Craig and the PPA as they bring us
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Ten-year-old Josiah Marcelino lives within walking distance of Tacony Creek Park, but had never ventured onto its nature trails. This July, through the Bikes & Trails Camp, presented by YJR (Yo! Just Ride) Outdoors and the Tookany/Tacony Frankford (TTF) Watershed Partnership, Marcelino was able to experience the park in a brand-new way: via bicycle. “I
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Often the best business ideas arise from seeing a need. For Natalia Cardona, owner of Azúcar Jams, opportunity was hiding in an unlikely place: the jam aisle. Other sections of American supermarkets feature ingredients that generations of immigrants brought to the United States. But Cardona, the Guatemalan daughter of a woman who ran a juicery
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Dear Readers, Grid’s December issue, #211, will be its last in print. Our business model is no longer working. I have mixed feelings about making this announcement. As someone who has spent over three decades in this medium, I’m attached to it. I will forever prefer paper and ink to any other format. However, I’m
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Since May, the 13th Street bike lane has sported some new protective infrastructure: a series of plastic modular curbs. Between Locust and Chestnut streets, 18 of these curbs have been installed along the bike lane, stationed between existing flex posts, which have lined many of the city’s bike lanes for years. The new protectors were
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There is a surprising truth about the affordability of solar panels that few people understand: despite all the headlines, solar has never been more affordable. It’s easy to see why people might think otherwise. If you’ve been following the news about cuts to solar incentives — and to just about anything perceived as “green” —
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How much do you love your park? Maybe enough to organize or participate in a cleanup, raise or donate money to make an improvement, or lead an educational walk. Or maybe you don’t have the time or money to donate, but simply find your local park to be a refuge — and appreciate the work
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Two hundred and fifty years ago, as a new nation was being born in Philadelphia, botanist William Bartram was on the Altamaha River in Georgia — the edge of the infant United States — nearing the end of a three-year plant-collecting expedition. In addition to Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas, he had traversed the “powerful
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On May 4, following the unanimous passing of the “ICE Out” legislative package by Philadelphia City Council, a series of letters were sent by the federal government to City officials demanding they turn over years worth of materials concerning “far-left” immigrant activist groups. Among the groups singled out was Asian Americans United (AAU), a community
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While Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker’s ambitious Housing Opportunities Made Easy initiative (H.O.M.E.) sets out to close the city’s affordable housing gap, some area nonprofits have begun working against an unintended consequence they foresee: the illegal act of short dumping demolition waste, often in known dumping hotspots in Black and Brown neighborhoods. The community “collaboratory” Trash
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On a June Monday evening, the loudest sound in the South Philadelphia Library was the clicking of computer keyboards. Behind the busy island of computers, another group of people filtered into a classroom filled with green plastic chairs and soft ambient music: a space of quiet resistance. “I’m tired of AI being shoved down my
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