Close to 800 guests packed The Fillmore on Mar. 11 all in the name of supporting the Sixers Youth Foundation at the 4th Annual Evening on the Court, presented by VIP Wireless. Once the night concluded, more than $1 million was raised to support youth...
It wasn’t a restoration, rehabilitation, or recreation. Thursday’s uplifting, spirited event on the previously unfurnished playground adjacent to John F. Hartranft School in North Philadelphia was – in the truest sense – a revival....
PHILADELPHIA - The smell of fresh hardwood - northern hard maple wood, to be precise - was immediate, and symbolic. For many reasons, the scents, too, were cause for a justifiably celebratory mood - the byproduct of the rallying of a neighborhood; the culmination of hard,...