Chickie’s & Pete’s 15th Street and Packer Avenue 215–218–0500 Credit cards accepted Wheelchair-accessible Open daily, 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Reservations only for parties of 12 or more
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Tyreece Brown never got much attention as a high-school basketball player. The George Washington High grad played one season and failed to earn All-Public or All-City recognition.
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He’s 21–0 with 16 knockouts. He spent six weeks in training camp with world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis.
But no matter which of the alphabet-soup boxing organizations you check, those achievements have not been enough to get Gerald “The…
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What better way to kick off National Night Out than with another actual night out?
On Tuesday, residents and Town Watch groups from across the country will celebrate the national event — one that encourages citizens to sit outside their…
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Universal Companies speaks. After weeks of silence that nearly split the neighborhood along racial lines, Abdur-Rahim Islam, president and CEO of Universal Companies, briefed nearly 400 residents from the Southwest Central community about the nonprofit…
ALL-STAR BASKETBALL GAME
The Point Breeze Universal Youth Development League is hosting an all-star event Sunday at Chew Playground, 19th Street and Washington Avenue. The Point Breeze All-Stars will face the Teddy Marris South Jersey All-Stars in 12-and under…
Homicide detectives continue to search for the killer who gunned down a 20-year-old Grays Ferry man Monday.
Alonzo Brown was struck three times — once each in the upper back, left arm and right hand — while outside his home on the 2200 block of Reed Street…
Somewhere in the halls of the State Capitol, between the chambers of the Senate and the House Representatives, the bill Senate Democrats passed to legalize gambling became unrecognizable.
Now, led by Sen. Vincent Fumo and Democratic leader Sen. Robert Mellow, of Lackawanna…
Photos by Jules Vuotto
“I think it was them. The pictures were in good taste.”
Novella Harrison, 1800 block Race Street
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Photo by Jules Vuotto
Hey, it was free … More than 100,000 Eagles’ season ticket holders and just plain curious people from the general public turned out Saturday and Sunday for an open house at South Philly’s newest traffic clogger…
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One of the worst-kept secrets in the Philadelphia art world is the career of Warren Rohrer, a Mennonite from Lancaster who absorbed modern precepts into his art, an art based solidly on the structures of his childhood — the farms and rolling landscapes of Lancaster…
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Gigli R Playing in area theaters tomorrow Two-and-a-half reels out of four
One of every four women in this country is physically abused at the hands of a husband or lover, according to recent statistics. But it’s a mistake to think women are the only casualties: Children suffer emotional trauma living in a home where violence is a way of life.