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We Still Don’t Know What the PTM’s New Mascot Is
But if we’ve learned anything from our whole Gritty experience, it might be that we don’t really need to.
Can a Radical New High School Disrupt Education in Philadelphia?
19 Philly-Area Schools Rethinking Education in Big Ways and Small
School hasn’t changed much in 60 years, but don’t tell that to these format-busters.
Kurt Vile Loves His Country
The Philly rocker on outrunning the Parking Authority and his latest collection of jams.
Can a Play Make Sense of Trump Voters?
Philadelphia Theatre Company’s season debut, Sweat, attempts to do just that.
Best Thing This Week: Ed Rendell’s New Gig
Our ex-mayor is lending some heft to the safe-injection-site movement.
A squad of teenage robotics champs, a 100-year-old jazz trailblazer, a deeply laughable mascot, and a Flyer to be truly proud of
Back in the day, Philly, like a lot of cities, banked on a revival of its downtown to spark new life. The plan worked fine — for Center City. But now that the pandemic has emptied offices, boomer residents are aging, and millennials are opting for the ’burbs, where do we go from here?
Is Another Financial Scandal Brewing at the Seaport Museum?
A decade ago, the museum’s CEO pleaded guilty to embezzling $1.5 million. Now, a fired controller claims in a whistleblower suit that there are new financial improprieties.
NPR Filmed a “Night Owl” Show at Federal Donuts
It’s a beautiful marriage we never knew we needed.
WATCH: Weak-Armed Vandal Won’t Be Defeated by OCF Coffee House Window
It took three tries for the suspect to actually cause some damage at the Ori Feibush establishment.
Hooray! Philly Is Finally Getting Its Long-Delayed Board Game Cafe
Owner Matt Hendricks swears that Thirsty Dice will probably, almost certainly, hopefully open on October 19th.
Get Ready for Speed Cameras, Philadelphia
Been burned by those treacherous red-light cameras? You ain’t seen nothing yet.
The former municipal golf course at FDR Park became an indispensable natural refuge for many locked-down South Philadelphians over the past year.
Fifty years after founding their legendary Philadelphia International Records, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, with friends and collaborators from Thom Bell to John Oates to Patti LaBelle, look back on the musical partnership that came to define the city.
Here’s What Kenney’s Opioid Disaster Declaration Means for Kensington
The mayor has created an emergency response team for the neighborhood.
And Now, There’s a Petition to Replace the Frank Rizzo Mural With Gritty
We could actually see this idea picking up steam.
Philly Is About to Get More Bike Friendly
The city just secured state funding for new protected bike lanes on Market Street. Quit your whining, motorists.
Anti-Trump Protests Have Become A Huge Joke
Protests used to be a visible symbol of the resistance. Now they have become a total spectacle of over-the-top political antics and unbridled virtue signaling.
