EMILY MELVIN

Jaq of All Trades

Along East Montgomery Avenue in Fishtown, there is a mural with bright yellow gramophones and blue ears with big hoops dancing above a teal...

Threads Through Time

Medford is a town with pieces of history sprinkled around. Some of that history is found in boxes in the attic of the historic...

The Body Electric

It’s a sweltering, 95-degree day in mid-May. School kids loudly roam along the burning South Philly sidewalks. Late afternoon traffic and busyness soundtracks the...

All That Jazz

New York and New Orleans aren’t the only cities for jazz.  Right here in Philly is a vibrant jazz scene with a rich history and...

Drawn Together

“Being able to feel free to be creative is, at its core, probably the most basic way that we can communicate with each other,”...

Defining Curiosity

While working for Merriam-Webster, Kory Stamper stumbled across peculiar definitions of colors in Merriam-Webster’s Third New International Dictionary. The meaning of “begonia” stood out...