Tonight, the fireworks arcing over the Ben Franklin Parkway will be a little bit greener.
The colors in the display will be as bright and varied as ever, but with less environmental impact. That's because Zambelli Fireworks Internationale, the company staging the show, is working to reduce - and eventually eliminate - the pollutant perchlorate from its fireworks.
For someone 200 years old, Abraham Lincoln was in fine form yesterday - cracking jokes, posing for photos, wandering around Independence Mall, nodding at the tourists who gathered to celebrate his birthday.
The news that planners of the American Revolution Center would abandon Valley Forge for Philadelphia generated real excitement in the city.
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The impending move of the Barnes Foundation to the Parkway is prompting other neighborhood changes - including the potential displacement of a nonprofit that provides mental-health services to thousands of troubled Philadelphia children.
John Young never went to a drive-in as a kid but now he runs something called "guerilla drive-in," a roving outdoor movie night for people he dubs "adventure nerds."
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When supporters of the Avenging the Ancestors Coalition converge on the site of the future President's House memorial at 4 p.m. today, they will be seeking to redeem the unpaid labor of enslaved forebears by ensuring paid labor in the here and now.
Upscale Suky closes after 33 years.
It's the last day of business at Suky, the Delaware Valley's premiere bridal boutique, and owner Mary Helen Ranieri is still the consummate image-maker. She doesn't want the store to be photographed without the vast selection of strapless, snow-white confections. But it is what it is: the end of a bridal era.
After spending millions of dollars and years of effort, executives with the American Revolution Center have abandoned their controversial plan to build the museum inside the boundaries of Valley Forge National Park and will move the project to Center City.
David Smith just wants to do some good. So when he heard about the campaign to fix the St. Malachy Church pipe organ, he immediately thought of the tin box of baseball cards in his dresser.
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Shades of the Brontes: Three sisters have created an imaginary world of fairies and demons, queens and minions.
This place is Arnelle and its language is Arnish. Not surprisingly, many of the phrases have to do with sisterhood, bravery, loyalty, rescue: "Noma brava gig" translates as "my brave sister." And the eldest Story sister, Elv, is indeed the brave one. At the age of 11, she saved her youngest sister, Claire, 8, from a child molester by offering herself instead.
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A troupe of storytellers carries the city’s saga into the Civil War era, coinciding with Lincoln’s 200th birthday.
In a five-minute span, Art Ryan morphed from portraying a scared female slave into the overbearing Southern aristocrat who owned her. As his listeners sat on a shaded bench near Independence Hall, he took them back to Philadelphia circa 1855, where they listened to the whispers amongst the staff at a Walnut Street hotel and relived a woman's fear as she stood trembling aboard a steamboat heading to New York.
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