City Living
What Philadelphia Lost When it Lost Dr. Walter P. Lomax Jr.
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. […]
Uber Lowering Prices in Philly
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 […]
Philadelphia Deserves a Better Flag
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 […]
Catcalled Woman Photographs Her Catcallers
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 […]
WATCH: TEDx Drexel Got Pranked This Weekend
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, […]
Man Builds Boat, Can’t Get It To Water
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 […]
What Philadelphia Looks Like Without Any People (And Colored Red)
Photographer Bruce Wayne Berry, Jr., doing it infrared-style. More at Gizmodo.
A New Pew Poll Says Philly is More Negative Than in Historically Bad 2009. Really?
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 […]
Butkovitz: Be Careful Which Philly Bridges You’re Using
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 […]
Crowdsourcing Big Brother: Police Turn to Private Cameras for Surveilance
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 […]
Vince Fumo Throwing Himself a Giant Party
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, […]
Temple Students From Violence-Torn Nations Find Philly Isn’t All That Different
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 […]
They Don’t Like Dog Poop in Passyunk
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 […]
The Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference Is in Town
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 […]
Holiday Weekends Create Trash Dilemma for Philly Renters
I’m just one person, living solo in Germantown on one floor of a three-story rowhouse. And since I live in a house with only three […]