It’s been quite a run for self-taught, Philadelphia-based photographer Zoe Strauss, who went from selling her work for $5 per print under I-95 to being […]

Philly is going to have a sculpture that isn’t designed by Claes Oldenburg. The Philadelphia Art Commission has enlisted contemporary master 88-year-old Ellsworth Kelly to […]

Philadelphia Police officers recently busted a North Philly cockfighting ring when the went to serve a drug warrant. They may have saved 47 roosters, but […]

Although an official announcement has not been made, sources have said that the Temple Owls will join the Big East for football in 2012 and […]

Tom Junod is typically just an award-winning magazine writer. For one day this week, though, he was also a volunteer for the Santorum camp in […]

Last week my teenage daughter and I visited the Magic Kingdom in Orlando. The Haunted Mansion? Really fun, but not very scary. Space Mountain? Pretty good, but […]

Yesterday, while preparing to write a blog about gun violence, I got distracted by this other very important headline: “Women REALLY Don’t Like Beards”, which […]

I was at a dinner party on the Main Line two weeks ago with a group of people I didn’t know that well.  And like […]

In front of the entire nation, conservative radio giant Rush Limbaugh repeatedly called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and “prostitute” for her support […]

Yesterday (March 6th) was the 155th anniversary of the blatantly racist, but patently honest, 1857 Dred Scott decision—and the American legal system threw a birthday […]

Luis Zendejas was pissed. “If I could’ve stood on two legs, I would’ve decked him,” he said after the Eagles won in Dallas 27-0 on […]

The ultimate game of flip flopping

Everyone Is Amped for the New iPad. Apple is supposedly set to announce details concerning the newest version of the iPad. Tech nerds everywhere are […]

Gov. Christie’s $119 million veto

Sometimes there are so many juicy news topics to pick from that it is hard to figure out where to shoot first. Perhaps the perfect antidote […]