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Library technology expert Marshall Breeding recaps this year's Library Marketplace at ALA's Annual Conference and Exhibition in Philadelphia.
For 18 years, one month and 23 days, as Chuck Dillon tells it, he has worked as a field representative for the Senate of Pennsylvania in the state ...
An effort to save the Tryon house where Nina Simone was born reveals the artist’s complicated relationship with her hometown.
While industrial bakeries are pumping out thousands of identical donuts with chocolate coatings that taste like sweetened cardboard, these artisans are crafting each glaze in small batches with the ...
Get a free backpack, sign up for school or even get your student a physical at these locations on Philly's Back-to-School bus tour.
It was a celebratory Saturday as Philadelphia officially announced that the 400 block of South Broad Street is now also named ...
The city of Philadelphia honored legendary R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass with a street renaming ceremony Saturday.
Northern Liberties got its name from the founder of Philadelphia, William Penn, who granted free bonus acreage, or “liberty” ...
Crews are working to fix a water main that broke near West Philadelphia High School early in the morning on Tuesday, July 29.
With every honest decision, with every generous action, every kindness, every act of forgiveness, with every prayer, with ...
A “Love TKO” took place in Pennsylvania over the weekend when the city of Philadelphia renamed a street for legendary soul balladeer, City of Brotherly Love native Teddy Pendergrass. Pendergrass, who ...
Could there ever be a moment in which the interests of political party leaders and government reform advocates come into ...