This weekend, head to Main St. and check out the 2nd Annual Manayunk EcoArts Festival. This event will bring eco-conscious people together to highlight local green initiatives in business and the arts. Dozens of eco-friendly businesses and merchants will have booths to highlight their unique and earth-friendly approaches to what

Today, we snagged a delicious lunch at Paesano's and were reminded of a rather large empty lot in the middle of the Italian Market, just south of Carpenter St., on the east side of the street.

The address of this lot is 1009-11 S 9th St., and it's been vacant for

Months ago, we mentioned a zoning hearing for Ali Tifrani, who intends open a take-out restaurant in the former Dairy Queen location at 514 South St. We're now hearing that the space will (eventually) contain the first downtown location for the New York Bagel Cafe & Deli, which currently has

Penn Park, the new $46.5M outdoor space located between railroad tracks and railroad tracks on the eastern end of Penn's campus, officially opened last week to much fanfare. The park, covering 24 acres and designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, contains play areas for both formal, organized sport, and informal

We got a tip from a reader about a newly poured foundation on the 2000 block of Ellsworth, and we discovered said foundation at 2040 Ellsworth St.

The builder, Quaker City Properties LLC, is out of New Jersey and also has a couple of other properties in Pennsport. They purchased the

The Sesquicentennial International Exposition (insert Waiting for Guffman reference here) was sort of the sequel to the highly lauded Centennial Exhibition of 1876. Compared to the original, this world's fair was rather pathetic. The turnout was poor, the weather was worse, and by the end, it was considered a complete

Last week, 922 S. 20th St. was purchased by May, the person who opened May's Cafe at 1847 Christian St. a couple of years ago. From what we understand, she plans to renovate the building and open a new cafe in the first floor space, serving breakfast foods, coffee, and

The last time we checked in with the South Philly Food Co-op, they were just getting off the ground with a neighborhood community forum and surveys. Now they're incorporated and are hosting various events throughout South Philly to raise awareness and raise funds for the initiative, and trying to get

We're not sure why we were at 6th and Poplar Sts. yesterday (but we assure you it had nothing to do with an obsession with the pastries at nearby Kaplan's), but while we were passing by, we noticed some serious construction going on halfway down the block.

We spotted four fairly

As you probably already noticed, the Center City Italian Bistro closed back in May. According to a post on Foobooz from a few months back, the plan for the space is for an art studio as well as Terra Hall, a dining hall for UArts students that will not be