Ron Banks | Dramatics founder, 58

She arrived in Philadelphia in 1971 to work for Luster Products and became proficient at developing, testing, selling, and demonstrating personal care products at events around the world.

“He was the most feared reporter in my eight years in Harrisburg,” former Gov. Ed Rendell said. “He did his work. He did his digging. He really cared about the issues.”

She hosted "Frank Talk With Frank Rizzo" on WCAU radio in 1988 and ‘89, and told The Inquirer in 1989 that working with the onetime mayor was like flying a “careening aircraft for three hours.”

He turned his lifelong interest in sports, affable collegiality, and writing, reporting, and editing skills into an award-winning career as a TV and print journalist that spanned four decades.

She wrote two books on French poetry and earned a grant from the American Philosophical Society in 1981 to transcribe manuscripts at the National Library in Paris.

Once described as “Philadelphia’s resident combination of P.T. Barnum and Walt Disney,” Mr. Giles got creative trying to attract fans. The biggest draw was the mascot he green lit in 1978.

“I never refer to myself as wheelchair-bound — that sounds like I’m in chains," she said. "I’d rather describe myself as a dancer who sits down a lot.”

He worked as a young city-side reporter for the Bulletin from 1969 to 1974 and a veteran editor and reporter for The Inquirer from 2001 to 2008.

“We have a philosophy of work as rehabilitation,” he told the Daily News in 1988. “The goal is to show these people they can do a whale of a lot more than they think they can do.”

He had been open on social media and ion interviews about his struggles with addiction and mental health.

The introspective singer-songwriter whose alt-pop hit “Barely Breathing” became a Generation X touchstone also won two Tonys for composing the smash musical “Spring Awakening."

He hosted music shows at WMGK from 1977 through the early 2000s, at KISS 100 in the 1990s, and at WPEN and WHAT between 2000 and 2011.

She lived near the Delaware River waterfront on Bank Avenue for 50 years and routinely opened her home and property to family and friends on holidays, and sailors and spectators during regattas.

She was viewed as a bard of the environment, a 20th century Henry David Thoreau.

His mother, Mary, wanted him to be a doctor. So, after she died when he was six, he went on to earn a dental degree at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn.

“He was instrumental in the healing process for so many veterans that it is hard to fathom the reach of his influence,” a colleague said in a tribute.

"He dressed every spangly woman in show business," author Frank Caro said.

He said in a documentary: “I think that my entire motivation and execution and philosophy can be two words: ‘Hey, look.’”

She grew up in New York, lived in Swarthmore and Philadelphia for more than 50 years, and taught a variety of classes at Temple from 1974 to her retirement in 2011.

Saturday’s event aimed to celebrate “peace, justice, solidarity, music and community action,” according to its mission statement, and promote voter turnout.

Wheatus ended their headlining set at Evil Genius Brewing Company's 15th anniversary party with "Teenage Dirtbag," their most popular song.

For Gen Z, the present looks bleak and the future uncertain at best. Their anxiety is fueling a restlessness with the national political system.

Making daylight saving time permanent would only further institutionalize a state-controlled and sanctioned system of artificial time, extending a temporal framework that has long been tied to war.

As the midterms approach, Democrats are working to ensure his aggressive approach to executive power doesn’t outlast him.

Leaders from the intelligence community, the Pentagon, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Office of Personnel Management will serve on the task force.