Temple University Multimedia Storytelling
Where we go past the headlines and straight to the streets of Philadelphia
Josephine Slavsky, who has worked as the Visitor Relations Manager at Philadelphia's Magic Gardens on South Street in Center City for over three years, has discovered that the art exhibit attracts all visitors with its array of colors and texture.
For Tom O’Connor, June 27, 2012 started out as just another delightful summer morning as he opened the doors of the famous Lorenzo & Sons Pizza that had been sitting on the 300 block of South Street since 1988. Around 10:25 a.m. that particular Wednesday morning, a fire sent the entire place up in a... Continue Reading →
Free boxing. Those two words led Johnny Rivera to the second floor of a building on Howard and Thompson streets. He had just turned 16 and already loved to fight, so he followed his friend to Rock Ministries Calvary Chapel of Kensington where he could get free boxing lessons. The Rock was run by Pastor... Continue Reading →
Kensington is a Philadelphia neighborhood that often receives negative coverage, and member of Temple University's Multimedia Storytelling class, Jennifer Karrigan, seeks to remedy this Kerrigan is the new beat reporter for the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, hopes to showcase the positive features of a neighborhood that is commonly negatively stigmatized. She has past experiences photographing and... Continue Reading →
Jake Galli has never played an instrument. He can't read a sheet of music. All he can do is watch, listen and enjoy, which is more than enough for him. But the Phoenixville, Pa. native, who is in his third year studying journalism at Temple University, was recently assigned to cover local musicians and bands in the... Continue Reading →
Emerson Max, a junior journalism student at Temple University, plans on taking an in-depth look into the lives of the homeless throughout the city of Philadelphia. You see, Max comes from a small town in North Jersey called Union County and for a suburban kid, college in the big city can be a bit of... Continue Reading →
Still just in his first year at SEPTA, T found himself amid a strike of all the transportation service's subway, bus and trolley operators and engineers. As a new employee, he said he was afraid to do anything that went against both SEPTA and the Transport Workers Union. “I just know a lot of people... Continue Reading →
Every year the Fairmount Park Conservancy and the Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Department chose one park to be the “signature site” during “Love Your Park” fall-service day. This year, the seventh annual Love Your Park event brought volunteers and media attention to Malcom X Memorial Park. This park was chosen out of over 90 parks... Continue Reading →
In South Philadelphia, music of the bandstand era was something extremely monumental to that time period, and still lives on with people to this day. Inhabitants of South Philly have grown up listening to the music of Frankie Avalon, Chubby Checker, and listen in with Jerry Blavat weekly during the summer months in Margate, NJ.... Continue Reading →
With funding from the community, Senator Anthony Williams brings back the N2N Festival in West Philadelphia. Local businesses come together as vendors to open up for the rapper Common's headlining performance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HNApiBktRs
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