The coronavirus pandemic didn’t stop tourists from crowding beaches at the Jersey Shore Friday during the first day of the July 4th weekend. Hardly anyone wore masks on the sand, but sunbathers spread themselves out.Nicole Ried stepped on the sand on the Seventh Street beach in Ocean City and quickly turned around.About a hundred people were on the beach. No one wore masks. Ried didn’t think there was enough room for herself, her friend, and two sons, so she left to look somewhere else.“There’s too many people right there,” the Pennsauken resident said. “I don’t want to sit on top of...…The coronavirus pandemic didn’t stop tourists from crowding beaches at the Jersey Shore Friday during the first day of the July 4th weekend. Hardly anyone wore masks on the sand, but sunbathers spread themselves out.Nicole Ried stepped on the sand on the Seventh Street beach in Ocean City and quickly turned around.About a hundred people were on the beach. No one wore masks. Ried didn’t think there was enough room for herself, her friend, and two sons, so she left to look somewhere else.“There’s too many people right there,” the Pennsauken resident said. “I don’t want to sit on top of...WW…

It’s a fleeting marker of spring that brings joy every year.Cherry blossom trees throughout Philadelphia are already beginning to bloom, blanketing grassy fields and city cars with petals in all shades of pink and white.Head gardener Sandi Polyakov of the Japan American Society of Greater Philadelphia (JASGP) predicts we’ll see peak bloom in Philadelphia in the first two weeks of April, with the cherry blossoms along the Schuylkill River and into West Fairmount Park reaching their peak around April 8, which coincides with the Shofuso Cherry Blossom Festival (which runs April 8 to 10).Once a...…It’s a fleeting marker of spring that brings joy every year.Cherry blossom trees throughout Philadelphia are already beginning to bloom, blanketing grassy fields and city cars with petals in all shades of pink and white.Head gardener Sandi Polyakov of the Japan American Society of Greater Philadelphia (JASGP) predicts we’ll see peak bloom in Philadelphia in the first two weeks of April, with the cherry blossoms along the Schuylkill River and into West Fairmount Park reaching their peak around April 8, which coincides with the Shofuso Cherry Blossom Festival (which runs April 8 to 10).Once a...WW…

The city has a lot of great deep-fried, Buffalo-sauce-slathered vegan wings, made of seitan, cauliflower or tofu. Here's where to find them.When the pandemic forced Fishtown’s Cedar Point Bar and Kitchen to temporarily close, owner Shannon Dougherty started feeling weird pangs of guilt. With her staff out of work and her business at a standstill, Dougherty naturally found herself swimming in anxiety. But there was something else, albeit far less serious, also creating some remorse.“The neighborhood people needed their veggie wing fix — it was a thing,” says Dougherty.Made with seitan and...…The city has a lot of great deep-fried, Buffalo-sauce-slathered vegan wings, made of seitan, cauliflower or tofu. Here's where to find them.When the pandemic forced Fishtown’s Cedar Point Bar and Kitchen to temporarily close, owner Shannon Dougherty started feeling weird pangs of guilt. With her staff out of work and her business at a standstill, Dougherty naturally found herself swimming in anxiety. But there was something else, albeit far less serious, also creating some remorse.“The neighborhood people needed their veggie wing fix — it was a thing,” says Dougherty.Made with seitan and...WW…

“We decided to have the show. That’s the big news, and safety will be a very high priority in guiding all the decisions we make,” says Lisa Stephano, PHS chief marketing officer.The Philadelphia Flower Show is moving to a new location next year, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the show’s organizer, announced Thursday in an email to members. The location is yet to be determined, but PHS is looking at early summer of 2021, instead of its usual early March schedule.Billed as the “largest indoor flower show in the world,” the Flower Show welcomes hundreds of thousands of people every...…“We decided to have the show. That’s the big news, and safety will be a very high priority in guiding all the decisions we make,” says Lisa Stephano, PHS chief marketing officer.The Philadelphia Flower Show is moving to a new location next year, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the show’s organizer, announced Thursday in an email to members. The location is yet to be determined, but PHS is looking at early summer of 2021, instead of its usual early March schedule.Billed as the “largest indoor flower show in the world,” the Flower Show welcomes hundreds of thousands of people every...WW…