The Inquirer reports: “A Common Pleas Court jury today acquitted 12 Occupy Philadelphia demonstrators arrested in a 2011 sit-in in a Wells Fargo Bank branch in […]

Associated Press reports: “Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has donated a painting with a mysterious past to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The work by N.C. Wyeth was […]

Whenever the subject of Philadelphia’s 2015 mayoral race comes up, the one person who is always named first or second in the pack of candidates […]

Politics PA reports: “A survey conducted by Democratic pollster Douglas Schoen for the gun control advocacy group Mayors Against Illegal Guns found that 88% of Pa. […]

Exactly what constitutes racism is a matter of debate. But my own sense is that racism takes many forms and one is a preoccupation with […]

Delaware is gung-ho for gay marriage.

Hollywood & Swine “reports”: “Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today he is banning Fox’s serial killer series, “The Following,” starring Kevin Bacon, stating that it […]

Jury selection started yesterday in the capital murder trial of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortion doctor charged with the deaths of a pregnant woman under […]

As long as we’re featuring music performed in unexpected places today, why not this lovely rendition of Kakariko Village from the Legend of Zelda game, […]

This new video from Vimeo user Haylee Warner depicts dance among the shelves at the City Institute branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the […]

NBC 10 reports: “Police say police cruiser #2625 was stolen from 5th and Clearfield Streets in North Philadelphia around 10 this morning. The stolen cruiser hit […]

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that advocates for the late football coach, Joe Paterno, are now taking out newspaper attack ads in an effort to force […]

As a fourth-year math teacher with a masters degree working in the School District of Philadelphia, I make $56,531 a year. This information is readily […]

Another gay chance to see the blooms.

Good news for journalists! Billionaire Warren Buffet is bullish on newspapers. Bad news for big-city journalists! He’s mostly interested in mid-sized newspapers. So while Tribune […]