This week’s Sports Illustrated cover story is a first-person essay by 34-year-old NBA center Jason Collins, who has just become the first openly gay male athlete […]

Today marks the first rocket-powered test flight for SpaceShipTwo, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spacecraft that will take tourists up, up, and away into space–well, sub-orbital […]

Now taking bets on how long this tongue-twister of a team name lasts. The Sixers have purchased their very own D-League team (the minor league […]

Videos from this weekend’s show.

Exhibit Z for why the Catholic Church is behind the times: On the eve of closing arguments in the Kermit Gosnell trial, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles […]

Philadelphia’s 2015 mayoral race may seem like it’s way off, but prospective candidates are beginning to test the waters. Last week, less than a month […]

It’s an annual rite of spring. Restaurant and bar and cafe owners plunk down tables on their sidewalks, legally or not, and the city vows […]

Things PA beats Wyoming at: JOBS! Compared to one year ago, Pennsylvania’s job growth (several thousand jobs were actually lost) ranks 49th in the United […]

Given the way things have been going lately, you might figure that the 42-year-old War on Drugs, hallelujah, is over. Nationally, we’ve seen a rebirth […]

The weekend’s gayest headlines.

After trying unsuccessfully for a little more than a year to extract the God Particle from his DNA, the New York Jets have released quarterback […]

Thank God for weekends. If there weren’t weekends, my house would never get clean. I’d never get to the post office. And I’d never get […]

Let another round of “Yo!” jokes commence. Rocky das Musikal, apparently a smash-hit in Hamburg, is officially slated for the U.S.A., and we’re not talking […]

Two weeks ago, the American public sat with bated breath to learn of the identities of those behind the Boston Marathon explosions. Long before law […]

Ever since the Boston Marathon bombings, the feverish call for increased coverage of the Kermit Gosnell trial has died down. Today, lest you had forgotten, […]