East Kensington Neighbors Association will be organizing the free sixth annual Trenton Avenue Arts Festival on Saturday, May 21, from noon – 5pm. Last year there were more than 8000 attendees and more thaan 150 booths with local arts vendors and activities on the cobblestone 2000 block of Trenton Avenue

To the right of Saigon Maxim sits Unit No. 7 at 600-636 Washington Avenue, a currently closed-for-business nail salon. The owners of that business have a five-year lease with an option to renew for five years and when they found that their nail salon business model wasn't working, they approached the Passyunk

We've tried for weeks now to get in touch with Adam Ritter, owner of The Sidecar Bar & Grille, when we saw the construction going on above 22nd and Christian Streets. Since we couldn't find Ritter, we invited ourselves into the construction site but found a smile wouldn't get us

This month is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War, for those of you wondering why Hallmark's Happy Civil War Day cards were out of stock. To help commemorate the war and the more than 600k fallen soldiers, Chestnut Street in Philadelphia will be packed from Sixth to Broad

It appears that the shiny new proposed grocery store adjacent to Bart Blatstein’s Piazza compound is going to require a few more months of waiting from the developer and the eager denizens of Northern Liberties. The unraveling and bankrupt parent company of Pathmark, A&P, is dawdling over their lease

On the way to an interview Monday afternoon, we found another example of Philly being rebuilt in artistic ways when we chanced upon a closed sidewalk and busy construction workers at 10th and Pearl Streets (just south of Vine Street) in Chinatown. The construction is part of a $1.7M Philadelphia

The Friends of Clemente grassroots group began a few years ago to revitalize the Roberto Clemente Park and Playground at 18th and Wallace. The second annual Clemente Fest on May 14 from 2 - 6pm will feature live music and performances, a moon bounce, local artists, raffle and a handball

With a grand opening set for May 12---less than a month away---the construction of the Race Street Pier Promenade has really begun to take shape. You can now see a line of freshly laid trees on the upper-level sky promenade leading down the pier and to the lower-level social gathering

Last weekend, the Mercer tiles outside of the Jacob Reed Building at 1424 Chestnut were removed and replaced with "garden variety red brick," according to an anonymous camera-ready tipster. The 108-year-old building, designed by William Price, was constructed with the added detail of decorative Mercer tiles, created by Henry Mercer

Todd Lowell of Lowell Property Management Group (and a Fairmount resident) is looking to turn 1900 Mt. Vernon Street into a plant retail and coffee shop spot (we can never have too many nursery coffee shop combinations around here). The location is right across from Clemente Playground and would be