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PHOTOS: These Beautiful Shots of 95 Revive Will Give You New Perspective on the Construction

Photography by Michael Klusek Most Riverwards residents are familiar with the Revive 95 project due to the recent work on interchanges at Girard Avenue and Aramingo Avenue, causing headaches for commuters…

Reach Your Valentine By Leaving a Note in the Spirit News!

The Best of Us: Remembering Fr. Dan Moriarity

“There’s a little bit of the bad in the best of us, and a little bit of good in the worst.” Just about every sermon I heard from Father Dan…

Robert Phillips: The Mind Behind Kensington Steel

The Riverwards are a haven for creative people to live and express themselves through whichever medium suits them best. Some artists use photography, painting and music as a way to…

Accu-Reggie: Weather Outlook and Forecast (Feb. 3 – Feb. 9)

This past week featured a warmth surge that melted the blizzard snow and made a lot of us happier. Don’t get used to it though. This week we start off…

Coach Pat Cain Honored by City Council For Community Service

Congratulations to Coach Pat Cain who was honored last Thursday by Philadelphia City Council for 53 years of volunteer work with the children of Fishtown. Cain accepted his award, accompanied…

THE LOCAL LENS

When AIDS became a full-blown epidemic in the early 1980s, times were so frightening that many wished that they could just fall asleep and then wake up when it was…

Community Organizations: Plans for the New Year in Brewerytown

Real estate development is looming large in Greater Brewerytown in the new year and 2016 looms on the Greater Brewerytown Community Development Corporation (GBCDC) with promise for continuing the services…

Restorative Justice: A Community Discusses Alternatives

Though Eastern State Penitentiary closed its doors as a prison more than 40 years ago, the 19th-century facility continues to play an active role in the modern exploration of the…

A Mano: A New Neighborhood Italian BYOB

The recent passing of actor Abe Vigoda, most notably remembered as Salvatore Tessio in “The Godfather”, had me thinking of all those timeless scenes featuring a mafioso chowing down on…

Sarah’s Place: In Defiance of the Finer Things

Neighborhood bars are dropping like sloshed barflies at last call, at least according to recent statistics. A Nielsen Consumer Report from October 2015 states that an average of one in…

Report: Overdose Cause of Death in SEPTA Taser Incident

The Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office has found that a drug overdose was the cause of death of a man who died after being stunned with a Taser by SEPTA Police…