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Tina Spence Dixon opened Buddha Babe on Small Business Saturday, November 28, but it had existed online since 2014. (Photo by Heather McBride)
Local store owners hoping for a big turnout on Small Business Saturday
Move over, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. After more than a year of getting hammered by the Covid pandemic, small business owners deserve all the love they can get this year on Small Business … more
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Jen Hasson, a mail carrier since 2004 whose route has been a part of Chestnut Hill for the past 14 years.
Married pair are a special delivery to N.W. Philly
In the era of Covid, the word “carrier” tends to take on a negative connotation, but when it comes to the term “mail carriers,” Tom and Jen Hasson are just what the doctor ordered for mail customers on their respective routes in Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill. more
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Nina Streets Design. Streets started sewing in high school and was so proficient the teacher asked her to take over the class.
Black Women Mean Business
If you think you’re noticing an uptick in the number of Black female shop owners in Chestnut Hill and Mt. Airy in recent years, you’re not imagining things. more
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Streeteries like this one in front of Campbell’s Place in Chestnut Hill could
Hill restaurants welcome permanent “streeteries”
A Philadelphia City Council committee approved legislation to make these “streeteries” a permanent fixture in some parts of the city last week – a move that many in the Northwest say is a very good thing. more
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“Kids Care 28: The Art of Color and Light,” at the Woodmere Art Museum Children’s Gallery.
Experience Art in person: Local Galleries open again
Whether you’re shopping for a unique gift or browsing so you can drop hints when someone asks what you’d like for a present, the artwork and handcrafts on the Hill this season will draw you in. more
Annual Carol Night. Dec. 3. Rotunda, St. Joseph Hall, Chestnut Hill College.
Onstage for the holidays: shows and concerts
Things to see and do as the holidays arrive. more
Quintessence Theater Group is once again performing for live audiences at the Sedgwick Theater on Germantown Avenue.
Historic Mt. Airy theater reopens for live performances
Quintessence's Little Women: The Broadway Musical, Dec. 1-31 at the Sedgwick Theatre on Germantown Avenue, celebrates its return to in-person theater. more
All the homes in Mt.Airy’s FrenchVillage were nominated to the city’s Register of Historic Places last week, including these ones on Gate Lane.The village is now called the French Village Historic District.
Mt. Airy’s French Village is historically designated
The Philadelphia Historical Commission unanimously decided to add the French Village Historic District to the city’s Register of Historic Places on Friday morning, completing a more than ten year process to get historic protections for the Mt. Airy neighborhood. more
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Nicetown CDC plans to use an empty, 3-acre right of way beneath the elevated Roosevelt Boulevard to make the neighborhood more walkable, active, and fun.
Evans gives his vote to Federal Infrastructure bill
As a result of the federal infrastructure bill passed last week, the Nicetown Community Development Corporation will receive $1 million to develop a sports court beneath the elevated Roosevelt Boulevard. more
Ron Johnson, owner of Yard Out Fit Club in Germantown, is living proof that a person who has made terrible mistakes as a young man can still turn his life completely around for the better.
From prison sentences to success as local gym owner
Ronald Johnson is candid about his past because he is on a mission to convince other youths with troubled personal histories that they can also turn their lives around.  more
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Qadr Williamson
Friends and neighbors remain worried about missing fifth-grader
Qadr went missing from the 300 block of Glen Echo Road on the morning of Thursday, Oct. 21. She was last seen walking to the Henry Houston Elementary School on Allens Lane where she is a fifth-grader. more
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The historic building at 7208 Germantown Ave., which once housed the Mt. Airy National Bank, in its present form. | Photo by Julia King.
Plan for historic building highlights city’s vision for future growth
Neighbors in Mt. Airy’s central business district will likely soon see a taller version of the historic building that once housed the Mt. Airy National Bank at 7208-10 Germantown Ave. Developer … more
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A Mt. Airy resident for 52 years, Chief Buffy Red Feather Brown, dressed in her Native regalia, often spoke at local schools, universities and other public and private assemblies about the history, culture and historical significance of Native Americans.
Foremost local Native American advocate dies at 93
Chief Buffy Red Feather Brown, a Mt. Airy resident for 52 years and passionate Native American activist, died at age 93 on Oct. 23 at the Visiting Nurse Association Hospice in East Falls. more
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Bledar Istrefi, chef/owner of Trattoria Moma, an Italian BYOB at 7131 Germantown Ave. in Mt. Airy, was a winner of the “green card lottery.”
Wins lottery: from Albania to Mt. Airy for BYOB chef
Bledar Istrefi came to Philadelphia after winning the immigration lottery in 2004. When he left Albania in 2005 to start a new life in Philadelphia, food was always going to be part of the picture. more
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“Unfortunately in our city when a person is facing a mental health crisis the family doesn’t have a choice except to call 911, for the most part,” said Rev. Mark Tyler, Co-Director of POWER Live Free and senior pastor at Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. "An armed response should not be the first response,” he added.
One year later: honoring Walter Wallace Jr.
More than 100 people gathered outside the Unitarian Society of Germantown Church on Lincoln Drive last Wednesday to mark the first anniversary of the police killing of Walter Wallace, Jr and to call for reforms. more
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Cresheim Valley Drive will be closed to traffic from Germantown Ave. to Emlen and Allens Lane.
Cresheim Valley Drive closes Monday for 6 months
The closure is from Allens Lane and Emlen Street to Germantown Avenue and Cresheim Valley Drive.e is expected to remain closed from November 2021 through April 2022. more
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Springside alumna and Mt. Airy resident Jennifer Ailey will discuss her new book, “Give it Our All: Creating Sustainable Change Through the U.S. Nonprofit Sector,” virtually in connection with Big Blue Marble Bookstore on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 8 p.m.
Springside grad to discuss new book at Blue Marble
Most children can't possibly imagine what career they will eventually pursue as adults (except maybe for Major League baseball players or U.S. President), but from the time Mt. Airy resident Jennifer … more
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Qadr Williamson
Whereabouts of a missing fifth-grader still unknown
Philadelphia police still have not found Qadr Williamson, the 10-year-old girl who went missing two weeks ago from the 300 block of Glen Echo Road. more
Lynn Washington n in front of her store, Books and Stuff, which sold mostly Afrocentric books in Germantown's Maplewood Mall before she took the business online.
Covid pandemic turns Germantown bookstore virtual
Lynn Washington was always interested in literature and education, but it wasn’t until she became a Director at the Free Library of Philadelphia, creating graphics and exhibits and promoting … more
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Lee Locklear opened the Avenues Café at the corner of Mt. Airy and Germantown in April of this year.
Mt. Airy cafe has Native American roots
The Avenues Café offers Lee Locklear a chance to blend his business acumen and cultural heritage. more
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