2019 – 14th Street Magazine https://14thstreetmagazine.com Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:56:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://kleinsites-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2021/03/03183814/14StreetAvatar-150x150.png 2019 – 14th Street Magazine https://14thstreetmagazine.com 32 32 Can you dig it? https://14thstreetmagazine.com/2019/04/24/can-you-dig-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=can-you-dig-it https://14thstreetmagazine.com/2019/04/24/can-you-dig-it/#respond Wed, 24 Apr 2019 14:30:41 +0000 http://smcsites.com/14thstreet/?p=860 Meet the musicians struggling to keep North Philadelphia’s jazz scene alive.

 

It was odd that Henry Tirfe, a saxophone-wielding house bandleader, listed Art Blakey, the prolific, Pittsburgh-based jazz drummer who led The Jazz Messengers for 35 years, as one …

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]]> https://14thstreetmagazine.com/2019/04/24/can-you-dig-it/feed/ 0 Reinventing the Library https://14thstreetmagazine.com/2019/04/24/reinventing-the-library/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reinventing-the-library https://14thstreetmagazine.com/2019/04/24/reinventing-the-library/#respond Wed, 24 Apr 2019 14:22:03 +0000 http://smcsites.com/14thstreet/?p=856 North Philly library branches are embracing a new, modern role: filling the gap left by rec centers.

 

As a 21-year-old mother of three, Mieka Moody arrived at Central Library to take a library assistant exam practically by chance.

“When …

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]]> https://14thstreetmagazine.com/2019/04/24/reinventing-the-library/feed/ 0 Can’t Knock the Hustle https://14thstreetmagazine.com/2019/04/24/cant-knock-the-hustle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cant-knock-the-hustle https://14thstreetmagazine.com/2019/04/24/cant-knock-the-hustle/#respond Wed, 24 Apr 2019 14:12:38 +0000 http://smcsites.com/14thstreet/?p=850 This barbershop owner is turning his turbulent past into fuel to create better futures for boys in North Philly.

 

Talib Abdul Mujib, owner of 1617 Barber Shop & Beauty Salon, has been hustling since he was a kid. Mujib …

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]]> https://14thstreetmagazine.com/2019/04/24/cant-knock-the-hustle/feed/ 0 Take a Hit from Poe’s Sandwich Joint https://14thstreetmagazine.com/2019/04/11/take-a-hit-from-poes-sandwich-joint/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=take-a-hit-from-poes-sandwich-joint https://14thstreetmagazine.com/2019/04/11/take-a-hit-from-poes-sandwich-joint/#respond Thu, 11 Apr 2019 20:28:58 +0000 http://smcsites.com/14thstreet/?p=344 After well-known marijuana activist N.A. Poe was arrested and put on four-years probation for holding a ‘smokeeasy’ pot party in Northeast Philadelphia in April 2017, he decided that it was time to make a change that help him enter the …

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