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  • Villanova graduates a record number of female engineers

    Hillary Guardo (from left), Rebecca Weigand, and Christine Alizzi are among the female engineering graduates. (Michael Bryant / Staff ...

  • For Philadelphia Futures director this college success story was personal

    For the last 13 years, Joan Mazzotti has made a public career of helping low-income, first-generation students from Philadelphia's public high schools get into and through college. Quietly, she and her husband, Michael Kelly, also have made it a personal mission in the case of two Haitian-born orphans, who received their degrees Sunday at Haverford College, a selective, liberal arts school ...

  • N.J. developmental centers brace for huge change

    TRENTON - With its imposing, Victorian-era buildings and leafy, college-like campus, the Vineland Developmental Center was in its time a state-of-the-art institution for treating young women with complex mental and emotional disorders. At its peak in the late 1950s, just over 2,000 women lived at the center. Once there, often at the behest of families that no longer could care for them, they ...

  • Beverly B. Brownstein 75 businesswoman

    Beverly B. Brownstein, 75, of Bala Cynwyd, who helped her husband build an ad agency and later ran her own businesses, died Monday, May 13, at home after battling breast cancer for several years. Born in South Philadelphia, Mrs. Brownstein was 19 when she married her future husband, Berny, who was 21. They began their lives together in Mount Airy and then moved to Cheltenham, where they raised ...

  • Flocking for a taste of Evesham

    Mike and Donna Hesse of Mount Laurel stroll down Main Street in Evesham during the fifth annual "Taste of Evesham" day. (Clem Murray / Staff ...


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The Complete Jean Vigo [Blu-Ray]

The Complete Jean Vigo [Blu-Ray]

Jean Vigo will forever be one of cinemas tragically lost geniuses. An unconventional artist whose life was taken at 29 by tuberculosis, he had just four short years to work behind the camera, turning the love of movies he cultivated in his early 20s into his own form of cinematic poetry. Working largely outside the French studio system and helped by friends and family (particularly his wealthy and ... ...

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  • Airport workers deserve living wage

    By Mark Tyler and Thomas Higgins As an airport-lease agreement that will bind US Airways, the airport's major carrier, to a long-term contract is considered, Mayor Nutter and City Council should insist that Philadelphia's living-wage ordinance applies to the deal. By linking the ordinance and the agreement, which was introduced in Council last week and is expected to be heard before ...

  • If we pay to fix beaches public should get access

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  • Study confirms poverty hits the suburbs too

    Say poverty in the Philadelphia area, and it conjures images of North Philadelphia or Kensington, not the suburbs. But the suburbs on both sides of the Delaware River are becoming steadily poorer, part of a national trend that confounds long-held beliefs that life is always better in greener pastures beyond urban limits. "People have this cliched notion of poverty being based in the inner ...

  • Phila. Council to vote on bill governing teens use of tanning salons

    Councilman William Greenlee hopes not to get burnt Thursday when his indoor-tanning bill comes up for a vote. Citing what he called "a preponderance of evidence" that indoor tanning greatly raises one's risk of developing skin cancer, Greenlee has introduced a bill that would restrict minors from using indoor-tanning facilities in Philadelphia without parental permission. The ...

  • Putting the Buckminster in remodeling

    ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Kenny Grono at his firm Buckminster Green, with image of R. Buckminster Fuller on the ...

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