Non-profit

Back in October, I spent a day at the Delaware County SPCA in Media. The staff there works hard to be a“life-saving organization,”in that it takes in animals from other shelters, both in the Philadelphia region and beyond, where the animals are more likely to be euthanized for no other reason than that […]

Public Justice, a D.C.-based nonprofit, works to“right wrongs”through public interest litigation. Each year the organization nominates five attorneys from across the country for their work in furthering public justice. This years’nominees argued some really incredible cases that have had and will have large legal impacts to come. Case topics for this year […]

Food Trucks Invade Fairmount The Food Trust held yet another Night Market on May 16 — this time in the Fairmount section of the city. Night Market features a wide variety of food trucks and vendors that offer endless types of foods. The roving event has previously taken place in neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia including East […]

Graduate Hospital–South Philly Well, I meant to post a few more videos from the visitphilly.com’s Philadelphia Neighborhoods series, but time has gotten away. This video features Rakia Reynolds of Skai Blue Media explaining why she loves Graduate Hospital — the Philly neighborhood just south of South Street. I lived in the neighborhood from 2002-2004, […]

Spruce Hill&Cedar Park — West Philadelphia The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation (GPTMC) recently unveiled a new two-year campaign to promote fourteen different Philadelphia neighborhoods that are outside the typical Center City area. Since late December I’ve been working on several videos for this series. This video is a neighborhood tour of two adjacent […]

Last night Philly Beer Week held a fundraiser called“The Bathtub Beer Fest”at the National Constitution Center. The event coincided with the Constitution Center’s current exhibit“American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition.”More than twenty regional breweries served their craft brews, many of them out of bathtubs. A diverse array of breweries participated […]