Lights, sound, activism! The Beardmobile brings the Love Tour to South Philly

Celebrate the magic of queerness with take out cabaret. The Bearded Ladies Cabaret Company’s Beardmobile will be making some stops in South Philadelphia over the next couple of weeks as part of their Fall Love Tour. The “roving cabaret truck”

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Singing Fountain Park Redesign Concepts Revealed

Concepts for an expanded park were presented at EPX Civic’s virtual monthly meeting. Check out the renderings! By Sequoia Medley for the Passyunk Post Bryan Fenstermaker, Executive Director of the Passyunk Avenue Revitalization Corporation (PARC), discussed the results of last

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Q & A: Singing Fountain Restoration and Reimagination Project

Your input can help reshape the Singing Fountain for the future. The Passyunk Avenue Revitalization Corporation (PARC) is seeking community input about the Singing Fountain park at the intersection of East Passyunk Avenue, 11th, and Tasker Streets. Read this Q

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With another grant secured, Columbus Square work set to begin spring 2017

The plans for the Columbus Square redesign are finally coming together, thanks to some additional grant money which secures the funding for the project. This new grant for $300,000 ensures that construction on the $2.8 million redesign can begin, with a

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Funding secured for Columbus Square redesign, construction to start 2017

Columbus Square has been slated for a redesign for about two years, awaiting enough money to remake the park at 12th and Wharton into a gathering space as well as a recreational park. Now, the project is about to come to fruition. Construction on the

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Work begins on Palladino restaurant coming to former Colombo’s

And, we’re off. The Passyunk Avenue Revitalization Corporation tweeted this picture yesterday: https://twitter.com/passyarc/status/458696284082163712 PARC has begun work on the new home of Palladino, the upscale steakhouse moving into the fire-damaged former home of Colombo’s  at 1934 E. Passyunk Ave.

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