What everyone’s talking about

Oh, the irony. Brooklyn may have ripped the Nets from Newark, but Jersey is the new mid-atlantic NBA hotbed. Other than NBA greats Shaquille O’Neal, […]

You know you have far too much free time on your hands if you’re reading the Norwegian papers, especially if you’re not Norwegian. This morning […]

Rethinking homosexuality

A day after signaling his support for a ban on assault weapons and for closing the “gun show loophole,” President Obama will announce the formation […]

If you want an excuse to discourage your meddling, needy parents from visiting you in Philly, you can tell them that in these belt-tightening days, […]

In June, Sheena Monnin gave up her Miss Pennsylvania title in protest, claiming the Miss USA pageant was rigged. The Donald, who runs the show, […]

I only remember bits and pieces, but I remember it. I was 13. It was freshman year in world history class and we were watching […]

Here are a few things that we know about Adam Lanza that we didn’t in the first, furious hours after last week’s Newtown massacre: We […]

Joining Stalin, LBJ, Churchill, and a few other notables, Obama becomes a two-time winner of Time’s “Person of the Year” contest. (You already knew this, […]

When you look at it now, it seems unfortunate that there’s a 36-foot-long, four-ton spinning neon electric guitar jutting out of a grand historic building […]

I was surprised to read last week that rates of childhood obesity in some U.S. cities, Philadelphia included, are actually down. According to the New […]

After last Friday’s events in Newtown, Connecticut, the National Rifle Association took down its Facebook page and went silent on Twitter. This afternoon, the NRA […]

A web series about urban lesbians

He shovels massive snowbanks, rescues people from fires, and voluntarily deprives himself of food, but can he pull off the ultimate political feat? Running for […]