When Trish Maunder and Katherine Allen of Philly Touch Tours (PTT) give trainings about welcoming people who are blind or have low vision to museums and other institutions, they get...
“However many neighborhoods there are in Philadelphia,” said artist James Hough, who was incarcerated at SCI Graterford for 27 years, “that prison is an extra one, because the people that...
Have you ever wondered if there was some small thing you could do for your neighbors if you got to know them well enough—and if there was something they could...
After years of grassroots community effort alongside a raft of City partnerships, Philly finally has its own Rail Park—but that’s just the first phase. What’s next for other sites along...
“As a kid, if you asked me what kind of birds there are in Olney, I would have said two kinds of birds: pigeons and sparrows,” says Andorra Library branch...
Sonalee Rashatwar (who uses she/her or they/them pronouns), a “superfat queer bisexual non-binary therapist,” brings their identity to the job every day as clinical social worker, sex therapist, adjunct lecturer,...
Philadelphia artist Maureen Drdak has pioneered a process that no-one else in the world is using, through her work in a Nepali family’s atelier, which dates back almost 500 years—but...
Losing your job is always a tough moment. A few years ago, it happened suddenly to Alex Jones, when the nonprofit she’d been working for lost an operating grant. On...
Melissa Robbins, now on the ballot for a Democratic City Council At-Large seat in our upcoming municipal election, says she knew she wanted to run for public office since she...
A man with light-colored hair and a small bald spot walks through Philly, wearing a white shirt and pants. He’s upright and unhurried, arms at his sides. The camera is...