For Barbara Green’s 29th wedding anniversary, husband Henry took her and their 24-year-old daughter, Melissa, to Hawaii.
When Barbara awoke that first day on the idyllic island, she started to cry.
The Neumann-Goretti Saints have a chance to make history. If they make it to the postseason, they would be the first girls’ team to do so under the banner of the new school. The playoffs had eluded the Goretti Lambs for more than two decades.
Three students have been arrested and police are looking for a fourth in connection with a melee Friday aboard a school bus.
The driver of that bus was beaten unconscious and a police officer who tried to contain the chaos was assaulted, said Inspector Bill…
Shante Cummings and Jimerea Lee are both All-Catholic basketball players, yet the pair didn’t suit up for the first Neumann-Goretti home game last Thursday.
The juniors won’t be playing in any other Saints game this season, either.
The banging was so intense, it nearly knocked Mary Morrone’s blue glass crucifix off her bedroom wall.
The noise was from Morrone’s next-door neighbor, L’angolo Ristorante, which began its expansion project two weeks before Thanksgiving.
The scene outside Edwin H. Vare Middle School last Thursday was a parent’s dream.
Two police officers arrived promptly at dismissal, monitoring the throngs of children exiting en masse. Approximately 10 minutes later, the area was free of students — and any…
Just in time for Christmas, lights will be up on most of the George C. Platt Memorial Bridge.
But these aren’t holiday lights; they’re highway lights.
For the first time since 1993, the 1.7-mile link between I-95 near the airport, the…
Watching a James L. Brooks movie reminds me of those old movie previews that ended with the promise, “You’ll laugh. You’ll cry.”
To be sure, Brooks’ latest film, Spanglish, is often quite funny and occasionally heartbreaking, as were the director’s Terms of Endearment…
Over the summer, I watched a furniture store on East Passyunk Avenue turn into a restaurant. Paradiso finally opened a month ago, with a feel that is unique to the neighborhood.
Paradiso has the look and ambiance of a big-city restaurant. Light wood French doors enhanced by soft…
When South Philly resident Kathy Valle met relationship guru Dr. Phil McGraw this month, she wasn’t starstruck.
However, she was struck by the image of the children who were invited to Dr. Phil’s Beverly Hills mansion. All of the youngsters have a parent stationed in Iraq.
A herd of deer, a flock of birds, a gaggle of geese — what to call more than a dozen Calder sculptures along a half-mile stretch of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway?
The first inclination is “circus of Calders,” but these are not from the famous series of wire…