Photo of the Week: The Fabulous Franklin Fountain
Reader, Sharon, is the creator of PA/NJ Photo Tour Enthusiasts, a local photography group with over 600 members. She considers herself an expressionist, exploring the beautiful bones of life through language and the visual arts. Born in Germantown, the city often serves as the backdrop for doing so.
Philly’s Most Happening Hospital Hosts Seminars on Weight Gain After Surgery
Join Happening List winner for Best Hospital, Mercy Philadelphia Hospitals for free seminars on Weight Gain after Bariatric Surgery. As people become increasingly aware of the weight loss and the other health benefits associated with bariatric surgery, one aspect can be overlooked: the risk to gain the weight back after surgery. “Weight regain after bariatric [...]
Night Market is Back!
The Night Market returns for another great year of outdoor food fabulous-ness! Join The Food Trust Tonight, May 16th along Fairmount Ave for an evening of the city’s best ethnic food, gourmet food trucks, beer and live music. The Food Trust is a nonprofit foundation founded in 1992, which strives to make healthy food available [...]
Starter Mom: Baby Shower Gift Ideas (that she’ll REALLY need!)
By Nicole Loughan It got cold about 8 months ago, everybody went inside…some people got bored and some people got busy. For those who created life, it’s now time for you to get them a gift. Yep- we are heading into baby shower season! Every time I am invited to a shower, I rack my [...]
Paint a Healthy City
What do free food, paint, and music have in common? They’ll all be available this month at the Porch Light Program’s “Painting a Healthy City” events! Where public art and public health collide, Painting a Healthy City promotes health and wellbeing across Philadelphia. Stop by to enjoy some food and entertainment; contribute to one of [...]
*WIN* 1 Week of Summer Modeling Camp
Do you know a girl between the ages of 4-17 that is destined to be a star? She can learn to rock the runway, model the next big fashions, and a master photo shoot like Tyra Banks at TLC Summer Modeling Camp, where they have a program designed to make your child a huge success. [...]
Photo of the Week
“Though I’ve been a resident of the Bucks County area for the past 33 years, nothing quite stirs those “home again” sensibilities the way a visit back to the streets of my hometown, Philadelphia. does. It’s where I am most in my element. It’s where I most belong. It’s the one place in the world [...]
Free Writer’s Workshop Lead By Best-Selling Author
A Writer’s Intensive Workshop, led by Essence Bestselling Author, Karen E. Quinones Miller, will be held at the David Cohen/Ogontz Branch Library on Saturday, May 18th, 2013. Novice authors looking to improve their craft are welcome to apply for this FREE 6-hour intensive workshop. Ms. Miller is the author of many novels, including her self-published [...]
Philly Indie Developer Releases Quirky New App for iPhone
A brand new face-detection-integrated App hit the App Store this week. Goon Galaxy, a space shooter game with face-detection technology developed by a Philadelphia-based indie development company, Eychmotech. Available in the App Store as of April 18, 2013, Goon Galaxy is a classic space shooter game updated with the powers of iOS face detection, built [...]
ABC’s “Shark Tank” Holds Local Auditions This May!
Dad-a-dad-a-dad-a….the sharks are swimming this way, with May auditions for ABC’s Shark Tank happening right here in Philadelphia. If you are an entrepreneur or inventor, if you’re nursing a start-up that is ready for the next level, then put on your wet suits on and get ready to jump into shark infested waters, for the [...]
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