A good judge of character

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Although Dorothy Kapenstein can’t remember the details of the day she met Lisa Aversa at Girls High School in 1942, she can attest her friend had a certain quality even then.

From the ashes

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Tensions mounted as Audenried High School faced closure and the Greater Grays Ferry Estates replaced the Tasker Homes, so students pulled out their cameras.

“Rising on the Hill,” one of 40 locally filmed documentaries covering area…

Great X-pectations

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A crosshatch of small streets and avenues named Mifflin, Wilder, Greenwich, Gerritt, Passyunk and, aptly enough, Cross intersect 11th and 12th streets in what the neighborhood association calls East Passyunk Crossing. They make for the cozy enclave dotted with…

Defacing history

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As a streaming parade of cars made their way down Ninth Street during Monday night’s rush…

College hoops scene

With college basketball season getting under way, several athletes with South Philadelphia ties are suiting up. Below is the list of players as well as what schools they’ll be playing for this winter:

Men’s basketball

Snooze, you lose

A bank robbing spree has possibly been brought to a halt when police discovered the man they believe to be responsible sleeping in a van parked at Packer Avenue and Smedley Street Oct. 26.

Frederick “Freddie” Baynes, 40, is allegedly behind 11 demand-note robberies at nine…

Philadelphia Parking Authority salaries

“I want that job! I’ll do it for $99,000.”

Izak Farbiarz,

13th Street and Passyunk Avenue

King of the castle

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Charles Demuth, the modernist painter from Lancaster, lived two distinct lives and is celebrated in both. The darling of the New York theatre scene, Demuth traveled through Europe, frequented creative colonies in Provincetown, Paris and Bermuda, and associated…

The next level

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The High School for Creative and Performing Arts girls’ volleyball team is such a close-knit bunch they have their own dance.

Players may break out at any time during a match when a Pegasus scores an unreturned serve. It involves a little…

Sports Briefs: 11–01–07

BOCCE SCORES

In last week’s women’s bocce action, Southern Auto defeated Mazza Bros., 12–5; Pastifico defeated City Pizza, 12–5, and Southern Auto, 12–8; Mazza Bros. defeated City Pizza, 12–6.

Urban Saloon

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A new addition to the growing Art Museum area restaurant scene, Urban Saloon has an open and airy dining room with exposed brick that is warm and inviting. (Photos by Greg Bezanis)

Say cheese

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The Bok football players and coaches have been smelling cheesy, meaty sandwiches as they practiced at Capitolo Playground, Ninth and Federal streets, since Aug. 13 while construction of their home site at 12th and Bigler streets continues. With a division title to defend…

The great pretender

I really never knew my Uncle Joe very well. He was my father’s brother, a slender, impeccably dressed man with the kind of long thin face that just bordered on being handsome.

The family never talked much about Uncle Joe when I was a kid, but when they did, there…

The great pretender

I really never knew my Uncle Joe very well. He was my father’s brother, a slender, impeccably dressed man with the kind of long thin face that just bordered on being handsome.

The family never talked much about Uncle Joe when I was a kid, but when they did, there…

Fowl play

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I am fortunate my husband Edward loves roast chicken and its leftovers. I roast a six-pound chicken or capon (a castrated rooster) and then create dishes with whatever we can’t manage to finish. Capon is meaty and has a nice plump breast with more fat. I save the fat and make…