In the months (and years) before a U.S. presidential election it’s not uncommon for voters from both parties to flirt with a variety of unorthodox […]

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie this morning signed a bill outlawing the use of tanning beds by minors—with a partial exemption for 17-year-olds accompanied by […]

You’d better bookmark this one for later.

Philly.com reports on the case of a young man who tried to offer a cabbie pot instead of cash for his Old City ride Friday […]

The New York Times profiles the “Dorm Room Fund,” a kind of junior venture capital effort that supplies small grants to entrepreneurial students and Penn […]

Until today, we’d never heard of Lee Marvin Presents: Lawbreaker, an early reality-style show featuring real cops and real crime victims re-enacting the real crimes […]

With a title like “Whips and Regret,” safe words, gimp masks and sex tapes, you’d figure this episode of The Following would be exciting (or […]

This is a big spring for the Zoo—your new parking garage and new children’s zoo and education center, KidsZooU, both open this month. What can we […]

CBS Philly reports that just 5 percent of the city’s homewners—22,000 homes in all—have appealed their new assessments made under the recently enacted Actual Value […]

Sabrina Rubin Erdely nominated for ASME.

Our friends at Reddit point to this tantalizing, rain-soaked photo … of a “Titanium” branded Ford Focus … bearing the wonderful Pennsylvania licence plate: JAWNMAN. […]

Now that the country is on the cusp of accepting same-sex marriage, it’s time for our most popular homosexual couple to tie the knot.

We’re already big fans of RudiElias86, the YouTube poster who frequently uploads videos of riding around Philadelphia with his pet cat on his shoulders. Now […]

Huffington Post reports that conservative Democratic Sen. Bob Casey has shifted his position and now backs same-sex marriage. “After much deliberation and after reviewing the legal, […]

Last week, news trickled out that longtime television interviewer Barbara Walters planned to retire next spring. It seemed, perplexingly, both inconceivable—can TV news exist without […]