The Roosevelt Boulevard subway isn’t the only rapid transit line Philadelphia was supposed to have but never got. There are actually a whole bunch of […]

50 years have passed since I wrote my note… In 1963, a twelve-year-old boy cast a message in a bottle* while on vacation in Seaside […]

Here’s how to get a plum job in government: Spend four years railing against the government. Bucks County-based Ana Puig, a co-founder of the Kitchen […]

Today’s random history lesson, brought to you by Jason Nark of the Daily News: Abe Lincoln was shot by a pistol manufactured in Northern Liberties. […]

All hail the canine couch potato. Thanks to DOGTV, a satellite channel that launched Aug. 1 on Direct TV, a new breed will soon be […]

Last Wednesday, Delaware A.G. Beau Biden, VP fils, was driving with his family to Indiana for a family vacation when he became disoriented and felt […]

It seemed like a very bad idea. I’d recently watched Bones Brigade: An Autobiography, an excellent documentary about the skateboarders I’d idolized as a kid, […]

What’s new this week.

A version of this article ran last year. As you take your lunch break tomorrow in Center City, stroll over to Front and Market where […]

To get fans pumped for the upcoming season, the Philadelphia Flyers invited fans to the Wells Fargo Center today to … watch paint dry. The […]

Good news! Philly homeboy Bradley Cooper has signed up to star in a movie where he will be clad in tight spandex, and spend most […]

We’re not sure it’s the most brilliant marketing department in the world that comes off a season out of the playoffs with a promotion that […]

Technically Philly notes: “Here’s a cool local tie to Apple‘s $4 billion new Cupertino City campus, slated to be completed in 2016: Old City landscape architecture […]

Our weekly ANTM recap.

CBS Philly has an extensive rundown of SEPTA’s plans to use electronic kiosks to distribute tickets for its buses, trolleys and trains. A trial run […]