Fishtown is fun. It’s drinking-a-local-beer-while-watching­-a-local-band fun. It’s ping-pong-in-a-beer-garden fun. It’s 25-cent-video-games fun. So it makes perfect sense that Barcade would open in the […]

In February 1997, I pulled into the parking lot on North Broad Street for my first day of work at the Daily News. Looking up […]

First, former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky was accused of sexually abusing a series of children over decades. Now, even closer to home, Daily […]

On November 14th, months after combat operations officially ended and two weeks before he was scheduled to ship out, 23-year-old Army Spec. David Emanuel Hickman […]

  Calling an area “quaint” should be an automatic­ kiss of death on any neighborhood Hot List (see: New Hope). As with strippers and cars, […]

Sixth Alleged Conlin Victim Comes Forward. Two additional women have come forward alleging that Bill Conlin molested them during their childhoods. Both of the additional […]

A lot of people send me a lot of links to a lot of YouTube clips, and most of the time, I either delete them […]

“The soulless have no need of melancholia,” said Vladimir Odoevsky, a Russian writer who died in 1869 and is said to have prophesied the Internet […]

A judge has ordered Linda Ann Weston, her boyfriend Gregory Thomas, and her daughter Jean McIntosh to stand trial for allegedly holding four mentally handicapped […]

Inquirer investigative ace Nancy Phillips has been deluged with emails, voicemails, tweets and interview requests since breaking the story yesterday of allegations of child molestation […]

Yesterday, Bill Conlin resigned from his longtime post at the Daily News amid allegations that he molested multiple children in the 1970s. Conlin won the […]

Rumor has it that Carla DiBello—close gal-pal of Kim Kardashian and a producer on “Kourtney & Kim Take New York”—was one of the women to […]

Merry Christmas, Philadelphia. Claude Giroux—who has missed time with the Flyers recently due to a concussion—was cleared for full contact on Saturday. The team held […]

Yesterday at 1:40 p.m., a colleague rushed into my office to share the awful news: The Inquirer was about to print child molestation allegations against […]

Father Judge High School closed a few weeks back after dozens of people went to the hospital complaining of eye irritation after attending a cheerleading […]