Month: November 2017

Is East Falls the kind of community that would welcome a home for sick kids by our favorite residential park?  UPDATE 6/18: KenCrest’s plans for a transitional care home move forward despite Community Council opposition, [more…]

An East Falls fairy tale for our friends at Frequency Tattoo, and all our neighborhood’s cyclists & art lovers.  Gather ‘round, kids, here’s a story about a wizard, a woodsman, and a fish who all [more…]

In a neighborhood where over 90% of parents send their kids to private/charter schools, Lynsey and her husband Dan Larson are thrilled to recommend Mifflin.  We recently left behind two sets of grandparents and a [more…]

Possibly our favorite news all year: a friend in our condo complex won almost $75k on Wheel of Fortune this October! Our neighbor played it so cool. Cori Frede didn’t say a peep to us [more…]

As new construction goes up, older buildings come down. What can Fallsers do to save our architectural legacy?  East Falls and Allegheny West lost more than lovely architecture last month: the old “Catifsh Café” had [more…]

JK talks turkey about the best beers for the season. [more…]

Falls Taproom has closed and the neighborhood is bummed. (But not, evidently, all that surprised.) [more…]

A new life for thousands of prayers from East Falls and around the world. When Pope Francis visited Philadelphia in 2015, two East Falls artists — Dan & Stephanie Ostrov on Stanton Street — were [more…]