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The Navy Yard in South Philadelphia has become a hub for business and industry under the management of the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC). At 1,200 acres, The Navy Yard offers office space, green space, and a campus-like feel along the Delaware waterfront. 143 companies and 11,000 employees come to work at The Navy Yard each […]

Back in July I had to fly to Seattle for a video project I was working on. This trip would mark the third time I’d traveled to Seattle. And, yet, I had never gone to Mt. Rainier National Park. The mountain looms in the distance reminding you every time you look in its direction that it […]

Library Acts of Culture–Opera Philadelphia On Monday, March 24, Andrew Bogard and Elena Perroni surprised library patrons with a short performance of an scene of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Bogard and Perroni, both students at the Curtis Institute of Music, have also performed with Opera Philadelphia. The duo performed the excerpt from Don Giovanni at three […]

Library Acts of Culture–Kùlú Mèlé African Dance and Drum Ensemble It was another typical Tuesday at the Lucien E. Blackwell West Regional Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia, when members of Kùlú Mèlé African Dance and Drum Ensemble broke into a performance of Fula Fare, a celebratory dance of the Fulani people in Guinea, West Africa. Also, […]

Library Acts of Culture–BalletX It was just a typical Tuesday at the Chestnut Hill branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia, when a group of ballet dancers from BalletX performed two excerpts from their recent shows, Slump by Joshua L. Peugh and Head in the Clouds by James Gregg. The dancers whizzed around book shelves and twirled […]

Chefs Matthew Ridgway and Paul Mitchell have collaborated to create The Pass, a restaurant in Rosemont, New Jersey in the French roadhouse style. Just up the road from Stockton, NJ, The Pass features a seasonally-inspired prix fixe menu that changes weekly and a casual dining atmosphere. In addition to the sit-down dining experience, patrons can […]