Update 4:33 PM This morning, Adam Lanza,* a gunman in his 20s, reportedly shot and killed at least 26 people, including 20 children between the […]

You know, instead of asking your buddy on the state Supreme Court to take care of it. Don’t think Philly’s totally ready for the space […]

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The Berkshire Hathaway investor is apparently considering buying the Allentown Morning Call, according to a report today in… the Morning Call. “Allentown is our kind […]

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Prior to this year’s homecoming game, the University of Delaware blocked two students from printing 2,000 t-shirts bearing the slogan “U Can Suck Our D.” […]

Drexel’s paid a high price for all its rapid growth. $467 million, to be specific. To fund its new student center and science center biowall–the […]

It used to be that when people were down and out, they’d hit a smoky bar for a while, and drown their sorrows in a […]

If this was a revenge plot, it may have just backfired terribly. Police have charged Anthony Nicodemo with murdering convicted drug dealer and reputed ex-mobster Gino […]

Last week, Temple junior John Corrigan, in a matter of a few hours, rocketed from just another student preparing for final exams to the toast/scourge […]

The Philadelphia Preservation Alliance has released its annual list of endangered properties, which you can peruse using a map from Curbed Philly. Among those in […]

That’s what this guy tweeted last week. More broadly, it reflects an apparently rampant, and usually non-sensical cultural habit: amusing ourselves with the geographical formula […]

It may be hard to believe, but it has been almost nine years since Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings: Return of the King won […]

As you may have heard, a bipartisan pair of New Jersey lawmakers are sponsoring a bill (S-2368) that offers the state’s dazed and shattered Shore […]

Far and away, the biggest spender was the American Beverage Association. Now that a soda tax has twice been defeated in city council, in 2010 […]