Philly drag queen Maddy Milan.

When he reviewed Penn Grad Whitney Cummings’s new show Whitney in 2011, Rich Rys was nonplussed, but hopeful that it would survive. After two seasons, NBC/Comcast/Kabletown […]

This man does not like fun! First, the ill-fated soda tax. Last month, it was the liquor-by-the-drink tax. Now, Mayor Nutter and Council President Clarke […]

Penn’s University Council Committee has recommended banning smoking. Like, not only in every building, where it’s is already prohibited, but in every nook and cranny […]

Among the byproducts of Google owning YouTube: You can now find out what the most popular YouTube videos are in every region of the country, […]

At a forum in Philly last week, a representative from D.C’s Capital Bikeshare described the phenomenon of being “dockblocked,” in which one shows up to […]

Nutter signs LGBT Equality Bill

Yes, that’s right. Eastern PA, not Western PA. Stereotypes be damned, Kutztown University is allowing gun owners with “compelling” personal safety rationale to bring their […]

Today, the fourth cinematic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsby (starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire, and Joel Edgerton) opens in […]

You know when you’re at the cold food bar at Whole Foods and you have to check the labels to make sure your turkey isn’t […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK55GSbSWQ0 By now, there seems to be little doubt that Philly is a tech city.  We’re overflowing with geeks, GIS firms map out our future […]

Yesterday, Grantland tracked down a video from the late ’80s in which Michael Jordan plays Charlie and Martin Sheen in a basketball game. Yes. Things […]

Kirsten Powers’s mission to make the Kermit Gosnell trial “front-page news” has not been successful. (She was successful in generating a lot of content about […]

  A couple of weeks ago, I was standing in the office of my colleague Jason Sheehan, food editor of Philadelphia magazine. I don’t recall […]

This is what comes of not obsessively Googling my own name: I missed that Fox News decided to quote me a week or two ago. […]