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Head Scratcher Rankings: Forget Beverly Hills, Narberth Is the Place to Live

Ahhh, Narberth, we often find ourselves longing to bask in your wonderland of sunshine, streets lined with palm trees, (good) Eddie Murphy cop movies and Hillbillies shows, […]

Property

Spotted in Spring Garden: Mixed-Use Building with Brewpub Nearing Completion

Exciting stuff,  you guys! Along with the expected onslaught of summer heat, we’ll be seeing the final touches on the upcoming 1720 Fairmount mixed-use project in Spring […]

City

WATCH: Philly Man Fires Shots From Moving Minivan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5TJx7D4jyU A man in Rhawnhurst fired a gun into the air multiple times from a moving minivan while leaving a restaurant, police say. Surveillance footage […]

Citified

Bill Green Finally Gets to Be Mayor, Thanks to Daily News Error

Much has been written about Bill Green IV’s mayoral aspirations. And Tuesday’s primary didn’t exactly lend a helping hand to the Councilman-at-Large turned ousted School […]

City

Pennsylvania Has Some of the Most Expensive Weed in the U.S.

If you want to smoke up in Pennsylvania, it’s going to cost you. I mean, obviously. Drugs aren’t free. But according to a recent report […]

City Life

Report: Philly Public School Graduation Rates Rising

Nearly two thirds of ninth-graders entering Philadelphia public high schools in the 2008-2009 school year graduated on time, a new study says — the greatest […]

Citified

The Mayoral Election’s Other Big Winner? Doug Oliver.

In five or 10 years, we may look back at the past three months as the seminal moment in Doug Oliver’s political career. Or maybe not. It all […]

Property

Plans (Finally) Revealed for Boyd Theatre Project, 19th and Chestnut

It’s been an interesting week. As you know, we were live at the Allan Domb election party on Tuesday and bumped into the ever-present HughE […]

Restaurants

Patio Menu at La Peg

With outdoor dining and drinking season clearly upon us, La Peg has announced its patio menu for the season. The patio is serving up a menu of grilled items […]

Citified

The Brief: Jim Kenney and the Rebirth of Big City Liberalism

1. Kenney’s victory is latest in series of liberal City Hall wins. The gist: The big east coast cities of New York, Boston and Philadelphia […]

City Life

Engineer’s Cellphone Examined in Amtrak Accident

Investigators are trying to determine if the engineer of a doomed Amtrak train was using a cellphone at the time of a Philadelphia derailment that […]

Property

Headlines: The Rail Park Gets Go-Ahead from Planning Commission

The Philadelphia City Planning Commission officially gave its blessing this week to a bill that would allow the city to purchase a 0.8-acre tract of […]

City Life

Newspaper Strike Vote Possible Next Week

Updated at 8:50 p.m. with comment from Bill Ross, executive director of the Newspaper Guild. Journalists at the Inquirer, Daily News, and Philly.com could vote as […]

Restaurants

Eli Kulp Update: Spinal Cord Injury Will Require Months of Rehabilitation

In last week’s Amtrak train derailment we learned that chef Eli Kulp was seriously injured. Today we found out that Kulp suffered a severe spinal cord injury. […]

City

Top 10 Dog Photos From PAWS’ Instagram

It’s Philly Loves PAWS Day, which means 10 percent of proceeds from participating businesses is donated to the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society. We thought it’d […]