Local residents convened Sunday afternoon at the Sedgwick Theater for the first annual Community Café. The event, co-sponsored by Neighborhood Networks and MARCHinG for Change, created a forum for people in the community to express their opinions on matters such as health care and safety and to suggest ways of promoting change.
Café organizers reached out to community leaders doing significant work within their fields to moderate a series of roundtables. “There are a lot of people doing things at the grassroots level and they need a forum to share that information,” said Margaret Lenzi, a member of MARCHinG for Change and an organizer for the event. The resulting café consisted of two 45-minute sessions where about 100 attendees could choose among six …
A heavenly aroma spills outs from a bubbling pot of potato squash soup in the basement of the Cavalry Church. Claire Smith quickly turns down the burner and goes back to preparing three large trays of savory brussel sprouts.
Paul Divido and Anna Jacobs take turns kneading dough to turn into luscious cinnamon buns. In an hour’s time the three volunteers have created a veritable feast to feed up to 80 people. All the food used was salvaged from grocery stores and bakeries across the city that would have otherwise been thrown in the garbage.
For the past 10 years The West Philadelphia Food Not Bombs have recovered food that is just past its selling date and used it to feed people in need. Setting up at 5 p.m. every Wednesday in Clark Park at 50th and Baltimore, the organization provides vegetarian and vegan food to approximately 50 to …
Imagine risking your life for the country you love by joining the military. After serving your time overseas, you come back healthy and uninjured, with a job lined up and waiting for you.
Unfortunately, this is not the case for many veterans who have served our country. The reality is that some soldiers returning to the United States have a tough time readjusting and are shocked to see that civilian life is completely different than what they had expected.
Kenny Dockery, who was a part of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan for the Global War on Terror, recalled his troubles after coming back in 2003.
“It wasn’t easy transitioning, it was rough. Not being in a combat environment, not …
When television host Gordon Ramsay of “Kitchen Nightmares” focused his culinary microscope on a family-owned BYOB in Fishtown, his major changes were to the items on the menu. He used the name of the restaurant, the Hot Potato Café, to create new-spud-accommodating choices that just made sense.
In May, the restaurant, located on Girard Avenue, received a makeover from the crew of “Kitchen Nightmares,” the Scottish chef’s reality show in which he revitalizes restaurants that are failing.“I received a call from a producer for the show saying that somebody anonymously nominated us,” said Claire Keller, co-owner of Hot Potato Café.
Claire; her sister, Kathryn; and their sister-in-law, Erin …
Behind the News
A program of the Department of Journalism at the School of Communications and Theather at Temple University. Copyright 2009.
