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Launch Party for The City Real and Imagined at the ICA this Wednesday

By Autumn Konopka at 11:41 am on Saturday January 30, 2010

Most of us, everyday, have some experience of the city – real or imagined. Whether it stems from our encounters at home or work, images shown on TV news, memories of the past, or dreams of the future, we interact with our city in ways that are public and private, singular and communal.

Rise in Bicycle Accidents in Philadelphia is leading to more Bike Laws

By Randy LoBasso at 12:10 pm on Thursday November 19, 2009

On October 15, police found Andre Steed, a 40-year-old paralegal, down and bloody at 16th and Locust. Witnesses would tell police he’d been struck by a biker. Within 10 days, Steed was dead. The biker who fled scene still hasn’t been identified.

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre of London Brings Love’s Labour’s Lost to Philadelphia

By Debra Yemenijian at 9:24 am on Saturday October 31, 2009

The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts continues its season of Shakespeare with the highly anticipated return of the Globe Theatre of London, with six performances of Love’s Labour’s Lost. Fresh from a critically acclaimed run in London, the Globe Theatre brings what has been called Shakespeare’s most ludicrous comedy to the Zellerbach Theatre from Oct.

Community College of Philadelphia is the City’s Hidden Gem

By Bill Neri-Amadeo at 3:10 am on Saturday October 10, 2009

When people think of higher education in the Philadelphia area such storied institutions as the University of Pennsylvania,Villanova and Temple come to mind but amidst the fame and prestige of these institutions is a school on Spring Garden Street that has become a “Launching Pad” for success in the City of Brotherly Love: the Community College of Philadelphia.