Update [9:30 a.m.] Philly.com’s Mike Bertha, who wrote about the show, told me the dedication “definitely didn’t happen.” Philly Mag social media editor Jack Cotter was […]

Summer is nearing its end. There’s about five weeks left until the solstice, but we all know the unofficial end of summer is what really […]

Speaking Tuesday, Tom Corbett rejected a desperate plea for $45 million in state funds to help close Philly’s gaping school budget hole. Corbett’s budget secretary, […]

For a team that’s supposedly irrelevant in this town, the Philadelphia 76ers sure have made a lot of news the last couple of months. Philly’s […]

Cory Booker ran away with it last night. In a four-way Democratic primary, he netted 60% of the vote to U.S. Rep Frank Pallone’s 20%. […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nryWkAaWjKg The best television show right now isn’t on TV. Orange Is The New Black kind of snuck up on me when it debuted on […]

Barring a fatal meteorite shower, Cory Booker will win New Jersey’s Democratic Senate primary tonight, and then will hang out at an after party DJ’d […]

In case you haven’t been paying attention, there’s been a big brouhaha over Northeast Philadelphia cheesesteak shop Chink’s changing its name to Joe’s. Supposedly, Joe’s […]

One last hurdle.

TMZ: Former NFL superstar Hugh Douglas has just been FIRED from his gig on an ESPN show in the wake of reports he called his […]

Is it easy to make jokes about the Inquirer’s decision to cover the decline of goth culture in Philadelphia? Yes. Are we going to do […]

Kate Taylor, you wasted your time. Taylor, the author of the Girls-Have-Sex-At-Penn story that the Times published last month, worked exclusively on the piece from September […]

Interesting short film. Looks like it was shot on an iPhone, but that weirdly gives it a nifty dreamlike quality. From YouTube: The story of […]

NewsWorks reports: Two Pennsylvania and one New Jersey suburb have been named in the “America’s 50 Best Small Towns” list compiled by CNN Money roundup, […]

[Update 1:32 pm] Officials have just finished a press conference revealing a few “preliminary” details. As reported, the officer who was shot is a 41-year-old […]