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He has two feature documentaries under his belt and has added the long-proposed Reading Viaduct project to his list of inspirations and passions. He's leading a major push to promote the "park in the sky" at the Philadelphia International Flower Show this week.

Old, new, improved and re-tooled, festivals focused on nature, science, kids, culture and films are on tap in the coming weeks, so pick your spots, starting this weekend, to experience and support Greater Philadelphia's best.

In an effort to increase effective communications, employee satisfaction and profits, the sustainability focused design/build firm is becoming the city's first employee-owned co-op.

A mansion, post office, farm house, and stone bridge were among the projects that were recognized by the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia as 2011 Preservation Achievement Award winners.

Medusa is more than snakes and horror to Hannah Tsapatoris MacLeod, who is reprising the character to raise funds for her Naked Feet Productions company to produce a world premiere play she co-wrote for 2012.

Face it Philly, we're not as healthy as we'd like to be. Center City native Clint Randall's job is to help make the connection between city planning and public health, putting our region at the forefront of a growing trend.

The school's chair of its Board of Trustees, Penny Fox, and her husband Bob have given $2M to create its first endowed professorship and fund internships.

You're a few Google searches away from becoming a bona fide practitioner of social media, says online marketing specialist Laris Kreslins, whose vast experience has helped raise Philly's profile in a variety of unlikely ways.

A new co-working space for filmmakers and media professionals underscores the benefits of collaboration and the need for Pennsylvania's film industry tax credit.

Build your own carbon nanotube! Drexel, Penn and WHYY have teamed up for Saturday's free event, which will offer the public a variety of hands-on science and engineering experiences.

The annual PhillyCHI Design Slam brought out the best from the user interface and industrial design camps and made a fairly indestructible, remote-controlled, video camera-toting toy even more awesome.

The longtime Haverford-based nonprofit's first-of-its kind program is already a smash hit. The yearlong initiative, dubbed C3, proves for every starving artist there's a hungry patron. They just need a little help finding each other.

The Barrymore Award-winning production, created from local teens' personal stories of violence they've experienced growing up, culminates with a public performance on Thursday.

As dean of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science, Eduardo Glandt has helped propel the department to the forefront of advancements in technology and research.

Most definitely the only event of its kind to feature a teeter-totter, the fifth annual Bilenky Cycleworks Junkyard Cyclocross in Olney is believed to be the only cyclocross race held in a junkyard.