“I’m a restaurant romantic,” says Joncarl Lachman, and it’s hard to think of another label that would stick more tightly to the Southwest Philly native’s […]

Michael Smerconish interviewed Lisa DePaulo about her gripping September cover story “The Lawyer and the Dead Girl” on his national Sirius Radio show this morning, […]

“Opera on the Mall,” in which an Opera Philadelphia performance is simulcast on a big-screen at Independence Mall, has been scheduled for Sept. 28. This […]

The Daily Pennsylvanian reports that the “Made in America” festival will be filled with narcs! Undercover state police officers, like those who cited 31 students at […]

NextCity.org has an interesting proposal to fix the never-endingly sclerotic nature of doing business at City Hall: Get the parties—Democrats and Republicans—out of local governance […]

CBS Philly reports on Jason Kasher, a 2012 Temple grad who is running 1,000 miles to raise the money to pay off his student loans: […]

Kurt Vile covers Nine Inch Nails The AV Club says: Kurt Vile didn’t seem the most obvious candidate to cover Nine Inch Nails’ 1989 classic […]

Greatist.com has unveiled its “20 Best Cities for 20-Somethings,” and Philly ranks 10th. Here’s what the site says about us: This city, deeply rooted in […]

Thereʼs a storm a-brewinʼ in Margate , and itʼs all about, well, storms. More specifically, itʼs about the construction of sand dunes — a project […]

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Via The 700 Level, this DeSean Jackson Instagram from his shoe collection. The 700 Level adds: “Can’t say I’ve ever seen any Christian Louboutins before, […]

This afternoon, America will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Another march is scheduled to be held in […]

City Paper reports: A census report, quietly released in May, revealed some interesting statistics about student populations and urban poverty rates. The report found that, […]

The Inquirer reports on Tom Wlodkowski, a blind Comcast exec who is trying to develop a talking TV guide for use by the company’s visually impaired […]

It’s almost Labor Day, which for the past two years in Philadelphia has meant one thing: Closing off our version of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées […]