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We’ll be off today eating cabbage and black-eyed peas and doing all the other things that are supposed to make for a lucky new year. […]

Yeah, it’s still two days before Christmas—a whole week before the New Year. That means you still have time to get up to speed on […]

For the first time in twelve years, the Mummers parade gets its first new Fancy Brigade. The group will be performing first at the Convention […]

Last New Year’s Brittany Lynn and her Drag Mafia made history when they brought drag back to the annual Mummers parade. For the first time […]

Philadelphia Business News reports: Television coverage of the New Year’s Day Mummers Parade is assured for at least three more years. SugarHouse Casino said Tuesday […]

Every year the Mummers do stuff that seems really racist to some and ohwateva innocuous to others. But this year, the outcry was fiercer than […]

You may recall that in late 2011, Philly Mag provocatively called for the abolition of the Mummers. Reveling in the infamous foyer showdown that got […]

I was struggling to explain the Mummers to a friend of mine from out of town the other day, when it hit me. “Lots of […]

Public service announcement: According to a study flagged by the Washington Post, more pedestrian deaths occur on New Year’s Day than any other time of […]

The first words I read yesterday were “‘TWO STREET’ TRAGEDY’ Fire destroys Fralinger String Band’s props & floats.” I gasped. “Oh my god,” I said […]

They said the show would go on, with or without their equipment. And there was no reason not to believe the champion Fralinger String Band […]

Three weeks before the parade, fire crews are at the scene of a South Philly fire that may have destroyed a considerable amount of Mummers […]

Last year, congressional redistricting initiated by the Republican-controlled legislature in Harrisburg took a chainsaw to Pennsylvania’s 7th District, turning it into what the National Journal […]

Bob to Start Winter Classic at 3 p.m. The weather forecast pushed the puck drop of today’s Winter Classic back to 3 p.m., and Lavy […]

Jagr and Talbot Score as Flyers Beat Pens. Both former Pens found the net in Philadelphia’s 4-2 victory in Pittsburgh last night. Jagr celebrated with […]