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Most Philly Voters Support a Soda Tax, Says Kenney Poll*

Fifty-seven percent of Philadelphia voters supported a soda tax last fall, according to a poll conducted for Jim Kenney’s mayoral campaign at the time. Forty percent opposed it. That gives […]

City

Bob Casey Endorses Katie McGinty in Senate Primary

Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey has endorsed Katie McGinty in the primary for the state’s other U.S. Senate seat. “McGinty will fight tirelessly for Pennsylvania families,” […]

City Life

Katz Heirs File Suit Over Deadly Crash

The family of Lewis Katz has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in the 2014 Massachusetts plane crash that took his life.

City Life

Morning Headlines: Is Chris Christie Veep Material?

Good morning, Philadelphia. Here’s what you need to know today: In most years, Chris Christie would have no hopes of the vice-presidential nomination. This year… […]

Citified

What You Could Talk About Over a $380 Coffee with Mayor Kenney

Mayor Jim Kenney is an expensive date. Friends of Chester Arthur, a nonprofit that benefits Chester A. Arthur School in the Southwest Center City/G-Ho/Anderson Yards […]

Property

Jawdropper of the Week: A Brand-New Beauty with a Golf Course View

This Jawdropper of the Week is a stunning new construction situated on the 8th hole of the Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Saint Martin’s golf course in Chestnut […]

City Life

The Philly Hoops Fan’s Guide to the NCAA Tournament

The NCAA tournament is here! Officially called the National Collegiate Athletic Association Men’s Division I Basketball Championship, we shorten it to “NCAA tournament” because that’s […]

City Life

Charges Filed in “Horrific” Northeast Philly Triple Murder

In May of 2014 — a few months after three men were found brutally murdered inside a two-story house in Northeast Philadelphia — homicide detectives sat […]

Business

Philly to Host Tech Conferences

Philly will play host to a couple of tech conferences this summer, helping showcase the burgeoning local scene.

Restaurants

Whiskey For Breakfast: Sunday Brunch At Ela With Scott Schroeder

UPDATE: We’ve got the full menu now, so check it out after the jump. Granted, it’s going to be a little late for the official […]

Restaurants

Smooth Jazz and Skate Wing: 26 North Reviewed

The 1990s were a bad time for the American restaurant scene. We were, as an emerging culinary entity, in our first youth—like awful (if precocious) […]

Restaurants

Homemade App Connects Local Cooks And Eaters Through Home Cooked Meals

If you heard that you could order a home-cooked meal from a stranger through an app, would you do it? As a consumer, it’s easy […]

City Life

11 Things You Might Not Know About St. Patrick

“Since when,” my enraged friend demanded, “did St. Patrick‘s Day become a two-week holiday?” She was irate that her exit off of I-676, not to […]

Things to Do

Lee Andrews, Singer and Father to Questlove, Has Died

The Greatest Teacher in my life, my dad Lee Andrews June 2nd 1936-March 16 2016. I love you. For every backstage experience. For every drum […]

City Life

Can Flyers Goaltenders Recreate Team’s Surprising 2010 Stanley Cup Push?

Last night, as we discussed yesterday, the Flyers had a chance to move into playoff position with a win over Chicago. The Blackhawks, though, are […]