Neal Santos Here’s the problem with health-care revolutions: They don’t always look like much. There was, for example, no ribbon-cutting outside the cramped rowhouse in Kensington’s Norris Square section, the base camp from which Dr. Barbara Schneider and her team…

One year ago, the city quietly closed the Ridge Center, its largest homeless shelter for single men and the central intake point for homeless men in Philadelphia. Today, out of the 280 beds at Ridge, only 100 have been replaced.…

Mark Stehle MARKET VALUE: (From left) Corrine Goodman, 9, McKenzi Custus, 14, Siani Garrison-Lloyd, 14, and Hannah Carr, 14, train to participate in the West Philadelphia Youth Entrepreneurship Program. Last year, thanks to a microloan and training from Villanova Business…

Cover Story A Party-Crasher’s Tour of Philadelphia email print font size share LinkedIn StumbleUpon Tumblr Digg ChimeIn Delicious Google+ Reddit options ÿ Posted: Wed, Jul. 3, 2013, 11:00 AM A Party-Crasher’s Tour of Philadelphia When it comes to block parties,…

For just one, sticky-hot summer day, when baking sidewalks send ripples into the air and hydrants are cracked open like cheap beers, forget those everyday news stories about Philadelphia. For this moment, we’re not the fattest, greenest, poorest or biking-est.…

For just one, sticky-hot summer day, when baking sidewalks send ripples into the air and hydrants are cracked open like cheap beers, forget those everyday news stories about Philadelphia. For this moment, we’re not the fattest, greenest, poorest or biking-est.…

In January, we told you how activists were preparing to map Philadelphia’s vacant land and create a social networking platform on which gardeners and advocates could organize. Now that platform is live. It’s called Grounded in Philly, and it’s designed…

Blackstone Development, known for student-housing projects around Temple University, wants to turn an entire block in South Kensington (aka Old Kensington) into a 277,000-square-foot mixed-use development with 247 residential units, a restaurant, a cafe, and other commercial and live-work spaces.…

It’s just after dawn on Friday morning, deep in the warren of cramped, overheated subkitchens that supply fare for conjoined siblings Fork and Fork Etc., and I am rapidly becoming acquainted with the full breadth of my incompetence. I am…