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05/24/13 12:00pm

To-Do List: Branch out a bit

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If you’re staying in town this weekend, you might as well spread those legs and take a vacation from South Philly into parts unknown.

All weekend

OK, so maybe it’s not unknown, but it’s definitely one of those things people always talk about doing, but you never seen to do it. Take a picnic to Laurel Hill Cemetery. It’s beautiful, it’s memorial by definition and it’s got a great view.

Also all weekend

NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship at the Linc. Sure you’ve never seen a lacrosse game, but who cares? The Linc is a great stadium and tickets to Saturday, Sunday and Monday’s championship games can be had for as little as $26 including fees. Or you could probably walk up to the stadium and get them for even cheaper. This thing ain’t gonna sell out.

Anyone else have ideas? Put them in the comments.

Developments
East Passyunk Crossing
05/24/13 9:00am

Rumor Mill: Coffee shop coming to 13th and Snyder?

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Not so fast.

Remember the abandoned “South Philadelphia Shipping Center” building on the corner of 13th and Snyder Avenue?

The view last week. Say hi, sir

The view last week. Say hi, sir

Well, it’s being renovated. After we posted about an architect’s office coming to Snyder and Juniper, we kept hearing rumors that a coffee shop was going to the 13th Street corner. But unfortunately, the “For Rent” signs in the window indicate it is still available, which the owner of the building confirmed.

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Restaurants
East Passyunk Crossing
05/23/13 10:30am

Joncarl Lachman won the bet, so he gets his champagne

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You could say a lot about Passyunk Post, but we ain’t no welchers.

Back when the newly opened Noord was first announced, we dubbed chef Joncarl Lachman’s plan to open by the end of April overly ambitious, pompously listed several reasons and set the over-under for his opening date as May 10. He said he could beat it, wagered a bottle of champagne (the real stuff) and proceeded to open two days before.

Two days? Really?

Two days? Really?

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News you can use
05/23/13 10:30am

School Talk: South Philly civics focus on education

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Editor’s Note: Welcome to School Talk, a monthly guest column looking at education issues in South Philly. If you have concerns, ideas or other thoughts about the state of schools and ways to keep improving them, email us at punk@passyunkpost.com. To kick things off, we have Christine Knapp, education committee chair at the Passyunk Square Civic Association.

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great schoolsIt’s clear that South Philadelphia neighborhoods have been undergoing a dramatic change over the last several years that has created a palpable new energy.

However, much of that growth and excitement is stymied when parents begin to think about sending their children to school. Many parents assume that their local public school isn’t an option, which creates a scramble to get into charter or private schools. Others immediately begin to look to the suburbs for educational options.

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Art
East Passyunk Crossing
05/23/13 9:00am

Isaiah Zagar wants a business partner to help him do something with Watkins Street

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Earlier this week, we showed off Isaiah Zagar’s magnificent Watkins Street space, a sparkling, frenetic piece of gargantuan artwork that he’s been working on just off 10th Street for seven years.

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He’s nearly finished, but there’s just one problem. He doesn’t know what to do with it.

“I thought it could be an event space, or a restaurant, but I don’t know,” Zagar told us in an interview. ”I don’t know how to fulfill the next step.”

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News you can use
05/22/13 10:30am

Navy Yard blooms with hydroponic pride

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A friendly rivalry is taking root in the Navy Yard.

One of the area’s seemingly normal shipping containers is actually a hydroponic garden, built, designed and operated by city high school students from the  Sustainability Workshop, Newsworks reported.

Pic by Kimberly Paynter/WHYY, via Newsworks.org

Pic by Kimberly Paynter/WHYY, via Newsworks.org

The garden’s fledgling lettuce plants are the product of a $10,000 grant from FreshDirect, an online grocery store that has created the Green Angel Fund Challenge, a bi-city contest that’s pitting the City of Brotherly Love with the City That Never Sleeps.

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Developments
Passyunk Square
05/22/13 9:00am

Cedars Village on Ellsworth now moving residents in

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The senior-living development next to the Italian Market, Cedars Village on Ellsworth near 9th, is finished and residents began moving in this month.

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The affordable-housing complex, developed by St. Maron’s CDC, an arm of the little Lebanese Catholic Church at 10th and Ellsworth, built 64 units on the 22,000-square-foot lot, plus 25 parking spaces and a community garden.

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Featured
East Passyunk Crossing
05/21/13 9:00am

EPX Civic Association to launch huge community garden

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The East Passyunk Crossing Civic Association has announced that it is starting a community garden this month on the grounds of Neuman-Gorretti High, next to the civic’s office at 1729 S. 11th St.

Matt Simone, beautification chair for the civic, said they’ve been working behind the scenes on the garden for a few months and hope to have it completely built by June 15.

“We’ve made some big steps,” Simone told us last week. “The fence is up, we have a few plots in and have a couple builds planned over the next couple weeks.”

Tucked between the houses on Watkins Street and a Neumann-Goretti building

It’s tucked between the houses on Watkins Street and a Neumann-Goretti building. That gray building straight ahead is Isaiah Zagar’s Watkins Street version of the Magic Gardens

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