“Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to […]
View Philadelphia’s Biggest Real Estate Delinquencies in a full screen map The above map features the 100 properties that represent the 100 largest real estate […]
Polls were crowded and lines to vote were long on Election Day here in Philadelphia. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. It is a […]
Looking forward to next Tuesday’s election, most voters are consumed by the presidential contest and other federal races, but Philadelphia voters will also be able […]
The sacrifice that Philadelphia’s police and firefighters make for this community can be an amazing thing. In the last few years, we’ve seen multiple members […]
Mayor Nutter will get to pretend to be an Impossible Missions Force agent on Friday when he rappels 20 stories down the side of 1515 […]
A small fire in the women’s bathroom on the fourth floor of City Hall forced an evacuation of the building shortly after 1 p.m. on […]
Although the next election for Mayor of Philadelphia is probably still a few years away, there’s already been a fair amount of discussion about who […]
To celebrate Food Day, a secret pop-up location has been announced for a group of food trucks. For the very first time, food trucks will be […]
The FBI is starting a new, confidential hotline to field corruption tips in Philadelphia. This development immediately prompts the question, “You mean Philly didn’t already […]
Remember July 2009? Barack Obama had been president a few months, a new movement called the “Tea Party” was making Democrats nervous, and Harry Potter […]
Philadelphia’s city government is famous for functioning badly, when it functions at all. Now the newly created Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics is aiming […]
Forget taking on cigar-smoking political bosses. Philly’s reform movement of the moment is focused online, on letting residents click a link and see how every […]
The city is set to acquire dozens of properties in the Point Breeze section of Philadelphia through eminent domain for affordable housing. Basically, the city […]
The bumpy part of sidewalk ramps in Philly that look like the underside of a bathmat are apparently expensive as hell. Thanks to a federal […]
