James Earl Jones will be at the Kimmel Center in November to accept the 2012 Marian Anderson Award. The award is named for Philadelphia native […]

Kings Fans Use Snooki to Taunt Devils. L.A. Kings fans who were cheering Mike Richards, Jeff Carter, Simon Gagne, and the rest of the hometown […]

JGT: Weston, where are you from? Weston: Jamaica. JGT: When did you move to Philadelphia? Weston: 2004. Before that, I was in Boston for four […]

Yesterday, Jon Bon Jovi rode on Air Force One and snagged a photo with President Barack Obama before playing one of three campaign fundraisers expected […]

In case you were planning on going out for a drink or four, but wanted to avoid the sweaty masses fist-pumping to LMFAO, or irritating […]

Corporate money men love Philadelphia’s black children so much that they are altruistically fighting to provide an Ivy League-caliber education to every one of them. […]

Only about eight percent of Major League Baseball players are African-American. In 2002, the Phillies had six black players on the roster. This year, they […]

On Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI announced his intentions to visit Philadelphia in 2015 for the next World Meeting of Families. Yesterday, the Washington Post published […]

Target already has

New Yorkers may wean themselves from sugar, but it will never happen here. Philadelphians will give up a limb before they’ll part with their 96-ounce […]

It doesn’t make good economic sense

President Obama Sings “Call Me Maybe.” Well, kind of. It’s actually just a bunch of autotuned clips thrown together, but it’s probably the closest we’re […]

Truth begins shooting this summer

Ed Rendell has pushed the word “wuss” way beyond its limits. He said it on the radio in 2010, got a reaction, and now he […]

I grew up being told by one of my parents that Philadelphia would always be a second-class city, no matter what. The other one told […]