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More Food Truck News: Manayunk’s StrEAT Food Festival Is This Weekend

If you just can’t find it within yourself to wait until June for the Food Truck Border Brawl we wrote about earlier today, take heart. […]

City Life

Hate Roosevelt Boulevard? Here’s Your Chance to Change It for the Better

Are you one of the many Roosevelt Boulevard users who are ready to “route for change” for the Northeast’s most reviled thoroughfare? (I no longer […]

Citified

The Latino Vote Series — Join Us for a Different Kind of Conversation

Would a Donald Trump nomination drive Latino voters to the polls in November? Will Hispanics in Wyoming, New York and Pennsylvania back Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders? If Ted Cruz won a contested nomination, […]

City Life

Nutter Blasts Sanders for Clinton “Qualifications” Comment

Former Philly Mayor Michael Nutter blasted Bernie Sanders for Sanders’ comments that Hillary Clinton isn’t qualified to be president. Sanders made his comments Wednesday at […]

Restaurants

Pennsylvania and New Jersey Food Trucks Face Off at SteelStacks

Here’s some cool news for you food truck lovers: on Saturday, June 11, sixteen food trucks from Pennsylvania and New Jersey will face off for the […]

City Life

PHOTOS: The Big, Raucous Bernie Sanders Rally in Philly

Last night, Bernie Sanders held a large rally at Temple University’s Liacouras Center. You may have heard about it on social media. You may have […]

Abraham Lincoln, Sam Hinkie
City Life

Sam Hinkie Used a Fake Abe Lincoln Quote in His Resignation Letter

Sam Hinkie resigned as Sixers general manager yesterday, and he did it in spectacular fashion: A 13-page resignation letter that apparently left management unaware he […]

Philadelphia Wedding

Get in Shape for the Big Day With SWEAT Fitness’s Bride & Groom Training Packages

A few years back, the folks over at SWEAT Fitness launched two pretty sweet training packages aimed at brides- and grooms-to-be looking to get in shape for […]

DNC Tour
City Life

Gun Group Calls on DNC to Give Up Armed Security

A pro-gun group is calling on Democrats to give up armed security — such as police and Secret Service — at this summer’s Democratic National […]

Citified

Suit: Philly’s Voter Rolls Are Abnormally — and Suspiciously — Large

It seems like every time there is an election in Philadelphia, there are allegations of shenanigans soon to follow, with the good ol’ saying “vote early and […]

Business

Aramark Says It’s Staying in Philly

Aramark is keeping is headquarters in Philadelphia, the company announced this morning. It might not, however, stay in the same Center City skyscraper currently topped […]

City Life

Sam Hinkie, The Sixers’ Rebuild, and Trusting The Process

There were few more divisive figures in professional sports than Samuel Blake Hinkie. Were. Hinkie stepped down as president and general manager of the Sixers […]

Restaurants

An American In Paris: La Peg Revisited

When the server told me the special for the night was a plate of snails packed with herb butter, I didn’t get them, because snails […]

City Life

Last Night’s Massive Bernie Sanders Rally on Twitter and Instagram

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrrnsbUX-yU&feature=youtu.be&t=38m11s Bernie Sanders may be lagging behind Hillary Clinton in the Pennsylvania primary polls, but you couldn’t tell that when he visited Philly on Wednesday. Sanders […]

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City Life

Was Controversial Philly Cop’s Death a Suicide?

Lt. Vincent Testa, a longtime member of the Philadelphia Police Department, was found dead in his home from an apparent suicide on Wednesday, law enforcement sources […]