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Cosmo Baker and DJ Diamond Kuts are among the Philly-based artists scheduled to perform at a free music festival in East Passyunk on Sunday, September 10 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The festival runs along East Passyunk Avenue between Broad and Dickinson streets. There will be street food, a vintage vendor market and family-friendly activities including appearances from Philly's Bubble Queen and the Philly Goat Project.

East Passyunk Avenue's annual spring food festival, Flavors on the Avenue, is returning on Sunday, April 30 from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. with live music, an outdoor market with more than 100 vendors and specials on all of the neighborhood's best eats.

Fall Fest and Spooky Saturday will return to East Passyunk Avenue on Saturday, Oct. 29 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Celebrate Halloween with trick-or-treating, live music, shopping, and themed food and drink from more than 160 small businesses and vendors.

Flavors on the Avenue, East Passyunk's spring food festival, returns on April 24 from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m., from Broad St. to Dickinson St. Enjoy live music, street food from neighborhood restaurants and more than 80 craft vendors.

Don’t take U.S Post Office stress out on small businesses The pandemic has pushed many more businesses and consumers to online sales — but the shipping system those sales rely on has been under major strain. Tens of thousands of packages have piled up inside Philadelphia-area postal service sorting facilities, the result of a staffing shortage and unprecedented demand, as first reported by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Packages sent as early as late-November remain undelivered. Philly’s reta...