Welp, the word is out and the jokes have been flying: If you smoke weed regularly as an adolescent, you’re going to be dumber later […]

It’s no secret at this point that our grandiose nation is grappling with an appropriately sizable obesity epidemic, wrought by the subsidization, shoddy production and […]

In an unexpectedly dreadful season, the Phillies enter the final weeks of 2012 playing for little more than pride—and, maybe, a chance to at least […]

Pope John Paul II visited there. So did Ronald Reagan. Now the property at 5700 City Avenue—known as the Cardinal’s Residence—has been purchased by St. […]

Allentown’s Quentin Williams, the quarterback at Dieruff High, started off his team’s season last weekend with both a lowlight and a highlight. The lowlight? His […]

Who the heck is John Gruber? The Philadelphia writer just might be one of the most influential tech journalists around, which means he’s getting the […]

Listen, we know that Joe Paterno—and the Paterno family generally—left a legacy broader than the Jerry Sandusky molestation scandal that ended his career at Penn […]

It has all the makings of the next Indiana Jones movie—or maybe something smaller, like National Treasure, only with fewer daring escapades and more bureaucratic […]

A trial has been re-scheduled for two men accused of raping the same boy at a Northeast Philadelphia parish in the late 1990s. The Rev. […]

It’s been a big week for Philadelphia Gay News publisher Mark Segal, in Charlotte for the Democratic National Convention. First, he was hugged by First […]

Next Tuesday—on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America—Philadelphia will get its own memorial to the terrible events of that day. The new […]

Does Amtrak’s plan to run a new high-speed bullet train straight through the heart of Philadelphia sound crazy? Maybe a little. But writer Eric Jaffe, […]

Some good news from within the PhillyMag house:  The folks at our new Birds 24/7 blog have joined forces with 97.5 The Fanatic to offer […]

Sure, Joe Biden talked a long time. Yes, Barack Obama’s speech lacked the inspirational elements that we’ve come to expect. But how truthful were their […]

The community celebrated last night