Carl Goldenberg, who headed the family that made Goldenberg Peanut Chews, has died at age 85.
On this past Thursday at 8:30 a.m., 81-year-old Dr. Walter P. Lomax Jr. passed away. “So what?” you ask. “What’s the big deal?” you ask. […]
Since Uber debuted in Philadelphia in 2012, the minimum fare has stayed constant at $15. Today, the limo/alt-cab service announced it was lowering that […]
I know this fellow from Washington, D.C. No, not the guy who tried to help me dispose of my trash over Labor Day weekend. This […]
Photographer Hannah Price had never been catcalled until moving to Philadelphia and was so fascinated by the experience of being harassed that she decided to […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yFhR1fKWG0 On Saturday, Drexel University hosted its third TEDx symposium—independently organized TED talks showcasing the same flavor of futurism and technological wowing as the flagship, […]
What have you been doing for the last eight years? Whatever it is, it’s probably not as impressive as what Swarthmore alumnus Jonah Eaton has […]
Photographer Bruce Wayne Berry, Jr., doing it infrared-style. More at Gizmodo.
C’mon, Philadelphia. It’s not that bad. Sure, the schools are underfunded. Yes, the General Assembly seems to want to kill our transit system. Fine, the […]
City Controller’s office press release: City Controller Alan Butkovitz today released a follow up review of the Department of Streets’ Bridge Maintenance Unit that found […]
Remember, earlier this year City Controller Alan Butkovitz criticized the city’s surveillance camera system, saying only about a third of the cameras work? We find […]
Ah, you gotta love Philly. A little more than a month since returning home from a four year stint in a federal prison in Kentucky, […]
A piece in the Temple News examines how foreign students experience Philadelphia’s, er, elevated crime rate. Nidaa Husain, a photographer from South Africa, made a project […]
Fox 29 reports on the anti-poop crusade in Passyunk: The problem’s gotten so bad that passyunkpost.com founder and editor Albert Stumm has decided to out […]
You knew our city’s vacant real estate was a problem, but I bet you didn’t know it was a big enough problem to hold a […]
