The upshot of the new $100 bill, besides the fact that it should be harder to counterfeit: Good old Philadelphia is center stage. Look closer […]
Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow reports: Science fiction author Michael Swanwick sez, “In my adopted hometown of Philadelphia there’s a move afoot to put up a […]
The Chestnut Hill Historical Society has put more than 11,000 of its photos online. As with PhillyHistory.org, they’re in a database that can be can […]
The cowardly murderous attack on innocent and defenseless men, women and children at the Boston Marathon on April 15th was terrorism. Accordingly, if preliminary reports […]
AP reports that a letter from Martin Luther King Jr. to Philadelphia Police Sgt. James Adair is on the auction block. In the letter, King […]
There was a time back in the ’90s that a portion of my nightly prayers were dedicated to asking God to make Dick Yuengling adopt […]
When I first heard that President Obama was considering nominating John Kerry to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, I figured, oh great, we […]
In 1976, the Queen of England brought over a replica of our old pal Liberty Bell, to commemorate the Bicentennial. How sweet and thoughtful–our new […]
Earlier this month, I told you about the as-yet-to-be-built Philadelphia Wax Museum, whose founder, Robert Avery, wants to showcase Philadelphia luminaries like Tina Fey, Michael […]
Just when you thought the National Constitution Center was getting too edgy with their Prohibition exhibit, they’ve decided to scale things down to PBS-volume again. […]
There is a place on Facebook—beyond the endless photos of newborn babies and your annoying friend from high school who updates her status exclusively in […]
The last time we heard about the Philadelphia Wax Museum, it was during the whole Chick-fil-A anti-gay debacle of 2012, when local lesbian blog Phillesbian.com […]
On December 31, 1862, at around 7 p.m., enslaved black men, women and children unknowingly created something that cultural historians would later refer to as […]
After more than 40 years in Indianapolis, the country’s oldest, quaintest magazine is returning home. What’s more, Editorial Director Steven Slon told me, the Saturday […]
Long before the salacious Petraeus scandal, there was America’s first major political sex scandal, which took place right here in Philadelphia. It was, as far […]
