Stamped with slogans like “Won’t break as easily as his promises,” and “Hope is not a form of protection,” condoms branded with the likeness of […]

Obama’s shoutout to the gay community.

The slaying of Melissa Ketunuti—the Philadelphia pediatrician whose burning and bound body was found Monday in her Center City home—is drawing attention from national and […]

We’ve seen so many stories of people falling or being pushed onto subway tracks—often to their deaths—that it’s heartening to see one with a happy […]

If you’ve ever been to the Philadelphia Museum of Art on a halfway warm day, you’ve no doubt noticed the waves and waves and waves […]

It is time to immediately boot all school administrators who had any involvement in suspending a five-year-old kindergartener from the Mount Carmel Area Elementary School […]

It’s apparently a day for dreaming of warmer times and cultural happenings. The Cinedelphia Film Festival today revealed the first details of the lineup for […]

Just about anyone who has ever filled a prescription knows how much cheaper it is to opt for a generic alternative to an expensive brand-name […]

Sure, it’s freezing outside. Warm yourself, though, to thoughts of shaking your thang at this summer’s Root’s Picnic. Questlove unveiled the lineup Tuesday morning via […]

A peek inside 10 Downton-like estates.

This week marks the 10th anniversary of Philadelphia’s Restaurant Week, a marketing initiative started by the Center City District in 2003 to get butts in […]

A team of toxicologists at the University of Pennsylvania are mounting a major study on the health effects of fracking, the controversial method of removing […]

That’s what former New York police commissioner William Bratton told the Wall Street Journal in a weekend interview about “the real cures for gun violence.” […]

In another sign that post-Paterno stability is returning to Happy Valley, Penn State on Monday officially named Dave Joyner as its athletic director; he’d served […]

1. Wonder Woman was pro-choice. Or at least she could’ve been. In 1972, science-fiction author Samuel R. Delany wrote a story arc for the Wonder […]