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Uber senior rides

Uber is offering free rides to older adults in West and Southwest Philly

Meet the West Philly fashion designer who's on the upcoming season of 'Project Runway'

Bobby Project Runway 1

Penn Medicine to offer free mammograms, eye health screenings and preventive care in West Philly

Penn Medicine Health Fair

Firefighters find 1 dead and rescue person on roof in West Philly blaze

West Philly fire dead

Will Smith to play FBI agent investigating a prison murder in new Amazon thriller

Will Smith movie

Hundreds pack Philly school district's headquarters to oppose plan to close schools around city

facilities presentation

Community printmaking shop is raising money for larger space in West Philly

Printmaking studio crowdfunding

Colman Domingo to give Temple University's commencement speech in the spring

In West Philly, there's a 'Fright Registry' for homes that decorated for Halloween

Underwater Kraken 2024

West Philly tool lending library is seeking donations for a new home

West Philly Tool Library

Philadelphia's Puerto Rican Day Parade celebrates the mainland's second-largest Boricua community

puerto rican day parade

'Bel-Air,' which left on cliffhangers, will return for its final season in November

bel-air

New movie about a Philly woman who runs an iced tea business is a 'love story' to the city, local filmmaker says

Sugar Honey Iced Tea film

Five acts worth checking out at West Philly's PorchFest this weekend

Local Honeymoon PorchFest

At this West Philly street festival, everything costs $1, $3 or $5

Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll

West Philly's Renzo will sing for the win on the finale of 'The Voice'

Renzo the voice finale

Estate sale scheduled at West Philly home once owned by Muhammad Ali, Kobe Bryant's grandparents

Ali Bryant Home

Penn is among U.S. colleges changing financial aid eligibility in move to make college more affordable

Penn financial aid

SEPTA workers rescue cat, 5 kittens trapped inside a Market-Frankford Line station

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Penn Medicine to open new proton therapy center in University City

penn Presbyterian proton

Shakespeare in Clark Park returns with free outdoor performances of 'As You Like It'

shakespeare clark park 2024

Golfer Jordan Spieth's foundation will fund new putting green at Cobbs Creek

Cobbs Creek Golf

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Learn tips to become a better writer at the Philly Indie Book Fair later this month

Philly Indie Book Fair

Philly author explores life, art and a queer group house in new novel

Housemates Emma Copley Eisenberg

Nearly 200 musicians set to perform from West Philly porches on June 8

West Philly Porchfest

Philly police disband pro-Palestine Penn encampment, arrest 33 protesters

penn arrests protesters

At least three people shot at Eid al-Fitr event in West Philly

Shooting West Philly

Explosion in West Philly apartment injures one person, police say

West Philly Explosion

Involuntary manslaughter charge filed against man involved in fatal fight inside SEPTA station in University City

SEPTA Market Frankford death

More City Avenue lane closures scheduled near St. Joe's for pedestrian bridge construction

st joe's tunnel bridge

Where to find holiday markets in Philly during the rest of December

1223 Christmas Village Love Park

MOVE Bombing commemorated with permanent exhibit at Philadelphia's Municipal Services Building

MOVE exhibit

Mr. Potato Head's forgotten friends from the 1960s live in Philly at the Please Touch Museum

Please Touch Museum potato head

This 5,000-year-old stone tablet at the Penn Museum is among the oldest examples of writing in the world

Penn ancient tablet

Scranton's new 'The Office' mural was painted by Philly artists

the office mural

Housing activists liken 76ers' arena plans to Philly's long history of displacement

Sixers arena protest

Watch a special showing of 'Night of the Living Dead' at the old Leader Theater during Velocities pop-up market

Now+Them Movie

Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll returns with $1, $3 and $5 deals

Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll 2023

West Philly residents no longer need to boil their water, PWD says

Philly Boil Water Advisory

Some West Philly residents should boil water as PWD continues to recover from equipment failure

PWD water outage

The Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll offers popsicles, books and samosas for $1

baltimore avenue dollar stroll

Porchfest musicians use Facebook to compete for West Philly performance spaces

porchfest valendina.jpeg

Porchfest 2023: The free music festival takes to the makeshift stages of West Philly homes Saturday

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