Wrapping up Breast Cancer Awareness Month with some laughter from survivor and comedian Queen Stewart at our live event with host Racquel Williams.
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Gunnar Montana literally built an immersive world for his latest dance production, "BLACK WOOD: WINTERBORN," about a coven of witches.
The show is for mature audiences. It runs through Halloween at The Latvian Society of Philadelphia on 7th and Spring Garden streets.
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A new museum in Germantown goes beyond the art to focus on the struggles and conflicts that inspired it.
The Rev. Dr. Michelle Simmons founded Why Not Prosper, a nonprofit serving formerly incarcerated people in Philadelphia and the organization behind The F.I.R.M.
She created The F.I.R.M. to change peoples’ perceptions by humanizing formerly incarcerated people through creative expression.
Simmons was also once in prison, where she served six years on drug-related charges. She says she knows the struggle firsthand — inside and outside of the system.
“I see the power in us, right? In how we transform. The creativity and innovativeness about us. And nowhere in the world was it being highlighted. And I said, ‘Well that’s going to change.’”
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Pink October has officially begun! 🎗️
On Bridging Philly's first episode of "Stories From the Journey," Dr. Arnold Baskies from the American Cancer Society gives us the state of the fight against breast cancer: detection, treatment, disparities, and the hope on the horizon.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
🛠️ We pick up our tools and get to work with Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia on this week's Shara in the City.
We joined their “building blitz” effort to build affordable housing.
In its 40 years of operation in West Philly, the organization has built over 400 homes.
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The team at Why Not Prosper, Inc. made a new museum of art and stories from formerly incarcerated people.
Hear how they're moving "from incarceration to inspiration" on Shara in the City, at the end of the latest Bridging Philly episode!
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Firefighters are battling a massive four-alarm fire in a four-story industrial building in Frankford.
The roof of the warehouse building collapsed. Flames spread to a nearby auto body shop, setting fire to a number of cars in the lot, as well as another adjacent building.
⚾ ⚾ For the second season in a row, the Phillies have surpassed 3 million fans in attendance at Citizens Bank Park. This year’s 3 millionth fan — in this case, fans — were the Spitko family from Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
Longtime Phillies ticket executive John Weber surprised them with a ticket upgrade to the CP Rankin Club behind home plate. The kids also received prize packs.
“I was just sitting in my car and I heard a boom. I turned around and I [saw] the car floating,” Jamil Wright told our partners at NBC10. “The rear end was up, then the hazard lights were on, then it dropped low.”
Police towed a Honda CRV out of the Schuylkill River on Kelly Drive, hours after the vehicle fell into the water.
Bridging Philly: Still RIse Farm
"Healing is not just surgery."
Breast cancer surgeon Dr. Monique Gary started Still Rise Farms to help patients and survivors heal through nature.
Join Shara Dae and Blues Babe Foundation Camp Jill Scott on the farm at the end of this week's Bridging Philly episode!
Two men jumped into the Schuylkill River to rescue a woman's dog
💦 Water rescue on the Schuylkill River Trail 💦
When Jayah Washington's dog, Bentley, a mixed-breed Maltese-Yorkshire terrier, got loose and went into the river around 11:30 a.m., a couple of men jumped in to rescue the little guy.
(video courtesy of Jayah Washington)
Bridging Philly: Village People drummer Russell Dabney
On this week's Shara in the City, we talk with a disco legend from Philadelphia: Village People drummer Russell Dabney.
Listen at the end of the latest episode of Bridging Philly.
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Balloon release in memory of Eddie Irizarry, 8/14
"We're still trying to stay strong. We're trying to keep his memory alive."
The family of Eddie Irizarry says they will continue to fight for justice in the case against the former Philly cop who killed him one year ago. On Wednesday, their focus was on Irizarry himself.
