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Witnesses to a shooting on the 600 block of Fitzgerald Street Friday evening said the gunman walked up to the victim at about 6:20 p.m. unloaded the shots then fled on foot in an unknown direction.
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Early last Friday, Stephen Maciejewski scrambled to collect 50-plus plants among the hundreds he grows inside and outside his rowhome at 20th and Fitzwater streets.
SPORTS DEADLINE
The deadline for sports notices is noon Monday. Submissions should be typed or neatly printed with both a contact number for verification and one for publication. Names should be spelled properly and include both first and last names. Phoned-in…
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When Julian Awad’s grandfather was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in his 60s, his memory began to fade. One thing he never forgot, though, was his grandson’s name.
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After suffering a heart attack Sunday night, state Sen. Vincent Fumo was placed in the cardiac critical care unit of Hahnemann University Hospital. According to a press release, as of Tuesday, Fumo had been out of bed for brief periods, had no…
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There are times “Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day” appears to transcend the frothiness it mostly emanates and become more substantial, along the lines of a Merchant Ivory production. It never quite gets there, although it seems to really want to. The irony is, if “Miss…
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It’s very likely every footprint left in South Philadelphia belongs to someone who knows Isaiah Zagar. If not by name or face, then by the signature works he’s peppered throughout the area since moving here in the 1960s.
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When most people are putting in their 9 to 5, Paul Koon is probably napping.
The snooze time is necessary after working the graveyard shift at a security job followed by an early-morning five-mile run along the Schuylkill River. Before…
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Fascinating, talented and tragic Frida Kahlo has maintained a stronghold on the imagination throughout the decades following her death in 1954. Today, she is the artist as rock star. The blazing self-portraits, the multilayered symbolism, the suffering and sheer…
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Southern could’ve very easily thrown in the towel after getting eliminated by Frankford in the Feb. 20 Public League semifinals. It was a game the South Philly squad led almost the entire way, but ended up losing, 81–76.
“No. It don’t matter because people are going to do it anyway.”
P. Dub, 17th and Wharton streets
“Yes, because it’s a safety hazard. Speakers are OK, but ear to phone is not happening…