Coffee shops! Microbrews! Art galleries/music venues! Music-venue-coffee-shop bars! Fishtown! Travel + Leisure recently ranked Philly the ninth best city for hipsters. This, likely, means that […]
It has been said—not only by researchers, but also by my grandmother and her five sisters in Miami—that Passover is the favorite holiday of American […]
When I was in college, my friend Sarah and I took nearly every class for our English major together, and sometimes, this meant having to […]
Houston has overtaken Philadelphia as the fifth largest metropolitan area in terms of population according to new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. Apparently the […]
Philadelphia County Is Unhealthy. In fact, a study conducted by the University of Wisconsin Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation determined that Philadelphia […]
So says University of Illinois at Chicago in a new study that ranks the 75 biggest cities in America on how social media savvy its […]
1. The movie The Natural was based on a member of the Phillies. First baseman Eddie Waitkus received a note when he returned to his hotel […]
As if we needed any reminder after the gorgeous weather we enjoyed last week, Frommer’s has included Philly on its list of the greatest cities […]
Raise your hand if you’ve lost a cell phone in Philly. Turns out, a lot of people should be grabbing some sky right now. Like, […]
Think you’re likely to become a crime victim in Philadelphia? Just travel 90 miles west on the Schuylkill Expressway and the potential for murder and […]
The dating site HowAboutWe.com has released a list of the heaviest—and lightest—single drinkers in the country. Only eight cities have singles that imbibe more than […]
There was a bit of a furor last year when Philadelphia introduced Take Control Philly, a website that teaches kids how to use condoms and […]
I’ve been on a bit of a concert-going tear in the past few weeks—four big rock shows within the past three weeks. That’s probably more […]
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 […]
Forbes has gone and disobeyed LL Cool J. They’ve compiled a list of “America’s Comeback Cities” and Philly made the cut. The online version of […]
