University City : Featured Stories

From Open Data Philly to Rethinking Shelter, our photographer followed the game developers, coders, hackers and dreamers who made Philly Tech Week pop.

Fittingly, there's no centennial extravaganza for the historic building in West Philly. There will simply be more of the same � a wide range of high-quality arts and community-building, including a site-specific dance performance this week.

The term 'tech transfer' is giving way to new approaches focused more on developing technologies rooted in the region's vast academic and research laboratory, and early results are promising.

More than 50 technology related events are slated for April 25-30 around the city for the inaugural event, which also boasts tech quizzo and a video game showcase for hardcore techies.

A University City investment group is raising $75 million for a fund devoted solely to water, and Temple University's WET Center is working on four technologies for water and wastewater treatment. The water business in Philly is approaching tidal wave proportions, and here's how.

The 30-something, skateboarding South Carolina native is hard at work on Paine's Park, a mixed-use project that will give skaters and pedestrians more reasons to come to Philly and stay.

The old vaudeville theater has stood vacant for a half century. The lights come on again April 1 with an established entertainment brand, but the $25 million project would not have been possible if not for a host of collaborators.

We asked more than a dozen of the city's opinion leaders, game changers and gracious hosts that very question, and the consensus says that while we're often too hard on ourselves, we're good enough, we're smart enough, and people like us.

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.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a more current and better sampling of the toe-tapping fruits of Philly's acoustic music community: Up the Chain, Hezekiah Jones and Joe D'Amico.

Enzybel will reside in Port Business Incubator as it establishes U.S. foothold for the natural compounds it commercializes for food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and textile industries.

A Penn grad and diplomat and host of Chinese officials helped restore all the artifacts to the much-anticipated exhibit, which has been controversially altered last week. A 4,000 year-old mummy is among the artifacts to be back on display.

College dropout turned DIY entrepreneur Sean Agnew of R5 Productions keeps independent music alive in Philadelphia. With a venue in the works, he'll only get louder.

A record number of applicants have produced a particularly impressive crop of Green Fund recipients, including a project that will install electric charging stations for car-sharing vehicles, announced today by the University of Pennsylvania

The Breadboard non-profit program of NextFab Studio brought together artists Laureen Griffin, Marisha Simons and Peter Hanley for this cutting-edge exhibit, which opens Friday, at the Esther Klein Gallery.