Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Warren Wright and his street buddies didn't know what to make of Adam Bruckner when he first started coming around the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in 2002.
CBS 3 (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
... school marching bands, 15 floats and 14 helium balloons.The procession made its way along the Ben Franklin Parkway and continue to the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art where Santa himself arrived to ring in the Holiday season.(© MMVIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)CBS3.com Editor's Picks
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
The parade on Thanksgiving Day will kick off at 8 a.m. at 20th and Market streets. Floats and festivities will travel east on Market for five blocks, then up 15th Street to Arch before heading west to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The parade will wrap around Logan Circle and end at the south side of Eakins Oval near the reviewing stand in front of the Art Museum.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
More than 16,000 runners are expected to compete in the 15th annual Philadelphia Marathon on Sunday. The race is scheduled to begin at 7 a.m. near the Philadelphia Museum of Art at 22d Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The finish line is also at the museum.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Bikers are welcome to ride with the actor, who can be seen now in the CBS series "Gary Unmarried." He'll be riding from City Hall at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 29 up to Benjamin Franklin Parkway through Fairmount Park, ending at the Strawberry Mansion Drive bridge, where there will be some type of reception. For info, visit changehappensindegrees.org.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
"Hadrosaurus Foulkii: The Dinosaur That Changed the World," 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday (exhibit opens at 9 a.m. Saturday for members and will be on display until April 19) at the Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Admission: $10, $8 for children ages 3-12, seniors, college students, and military members, and free for academy members and children younger...
Above Average Jane (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
According to WHYY's " It's Our City " blog: Friends of the Free Library will hold a special Community Meeting on the 11 proposed library closures this Saturday, November 8, 10 am - Noon, at the Children’s Story Hour Room inside the Central Branch, 1901 Vine St. (20th and the Ben Franklin Parkway)
The Onion (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
PHILADELPHIA—A recent Bruce Spring- steen free acoustic set on Philadelphia's Ben Franklin Parkway completely changed the mind of sales...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
... one first proposed by a Dutch economist named Jan Pen in 1971.Imagine a parade up, say, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on a crisp fall day.In this parade, every household in America will have one representative. Each person's height will be proportional to his household's income, with the average of about $64,000 pegged to the average height of American men: 5 feet, 9 inches. The parade...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
You will find the sliver of hope called the H.O.M.E. Page Cafe across the rather hangdog lobby of the Free Library.Here are directions: If you arrive before 9 a.m., ignore the drifts of litter against the wall outside on Vine Street, facing Logan Square's lovely Swann Fountain and the busy Benjamin Franklin Parkway.Climb the broad steps and pass through an off-putting turnstile, better...
