Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion in Germantown, the only Victorian-era house museum in Philadelphia, is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Yazmine Acosta didn’t know it, but the paddle she held in her hand was shaped like a key to the past, and just maybe the future as well.

As Philadelphia residents spend the summer in green spaces like Wissahickon Valley Park and Fairmount Park, city and state experts are warning the public to be mindful of increasing tick activity.

A robust range of plays is scheduled for Northwest theatergoers in a 2025-2026 season varied enough to rival the stage fare offered in Center City.

The best pizza I ever ate was the large Mediterranean pie created by Anthony “Tony” Christopher Iaquinto in his family’s pizzeria, Tony’s Pizza City.

Steve Poses, who lived on Benezet Street in Chestnut Hill from 1991 to 2004 and started the Philadelphia Restaurant Renaissance in motion, is the driving force behind the unique “Blue Plate Special” ...

The Harry Potter Festival will once again take over Chestnut Hill as the destination, located just outside of Center City in the Northwest section of Philadelphia, mystically morphs into Hogsmeade for ...

He added that clients should be “engaged in all the ordinary day-to-day activities that a family would.” JEVS Human Services, another nonprofit social service organization that has residential homes ...

Samuel M. “Beau” Freeman, 80, chairman of Freeman’s Auction, died June 15 at his home in Chestnut Hill. Mr. Freeman, who represented the sixth generation of the Freeman’s family, had been a staple of ...

This week marks the 90th anniversary of Norwood-Fontbonne Academy, a Chestnut Hill institution. Over those past 90 years, Norwood-Fontbonne Academy has grown from a small school for boys into a ...

John C. Graham, 92, of Mt. Airy, an artist and teacher who was a former president of the Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia, died Dec. 23 of congestive heart failure at Holy Redeemer ...

Legend has it that Kelpius lived and meditated in a cave built into the hillside of the ravine. But, as with most legends, there is a sizable gray area in the story. The cave is said to have been an ...