Last Thursday, a City Council committee approved Councilman Jim Kenney’s LGBT equality bill, which offers spousal partnership benefits to non-married life partners—hospital visits, “next of […]

The Dumpsta Players look for a prom queen.

KYW Newsradio reports that a student brought a .38 handgun to Fels High School in Northeast Philadelphia. The student was taken into custody. “According to […]

Local radio station WPHT, for mysterious reasons, has handed its afternoon drive-time radio show over to a man who’s never hosted a radio show, has […]

NewsWorks reports that the Rosenbach Museum—probably best known as, but not limited to, the repository for the works of the late artist and author Maurice […]

Watch: The video was uploaded Tuesday with this description: “Marijuana activist Ed ‘NJWeedman’ Forchion was arrested in Evesham and charged with possession for have two […]

There is a fascinating book by Irving Stone entitled, They Also Ran, the story of men defeated for the presidency. Stone, an historian, also analyzes […]

Sometimes, I wish we could all just shut up for a little bit. It is one of life’s great ironies that the events that demand […]

Gay hero featured on Sports Illustrated cover.

We’ll be trying to keep up with the latest headlines from Boston throughout the day today, obviously. Going forward, the latest news will be at […]

This will probably be the iconic image from the attack—some of the others being too horrible to want to spread widely into America’s consciousness:

The state’s close to marriage equality.

Since every other post today is literally about death and taxes, let’s take a break and check in with Philly homebody and one-time Sexiest Man […]

6ABC reports the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has added a another day of public hearings as it considers which of a half-dozen proposals it might […]

Good news! Remember how on Sunday, the day before taxes were due, City Hall took down the website that let people pay their city taxes […]