City Living
Is Philly Still a Wawa Town?
A confession: One small matter that has kept me from feeling like a complete and true Philadelphian is that I have no loyalty — none […]
On Spike Lee’s Gentrification Speech, or Why Won’t They Build a Fancy New Grocery Store in Mantua?
There has been considerable ink dedicated to chronicling the ongoing battle between culture and capital as Brooklyn becomes the epicenter of hipster chic. Of all […]
Are My Savesies Chairs Nice Enough?
I’m not going to name the town where I live. Go ahead and feel superior if you like — if you and all your kumbaya […]
City Agrees to Sell PGW for $1.86 Billion
On Monday morning, the Nutter Administration officially announced what had been floated last week: Connecticut firm UIL Holdings Corporation has been selected as the buyer […]
Top Five City Lists We’re Happy Philly Didn’t Make
Philly doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to negligibly constructed rankings of American towns. For three consecutive years, we came up dead […]
HuffPo Has 31 Reasons Philly “Is The Most Underrated City in America”
Huffington Post has listed 31 reasons Philly is the “most underrated city in America.” We won’t steal their thunder—go read the piece—but here are our […]
Who Put Up Those Strange Gary Barbera “Man of the Year” Billboards?
At some point in the last month or so, a series of billboards went up in and around Philadelphia, proclaiming Gary Barbera “Man of the […]
In Philly, in the Dead of Winter, Men Will Still Catcall You
When I first moved to Philadelphia, I was 22, completely naïve and a bit stupid. I had spent three years of my life living in […]
Meet Philly’s New Superhero: “Wiz Wit”
Well, this is lame. All the other cities get monsters and hairy mean things, we got a guy with a broken mop and a cheesesteak […]
These 5 Charts Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Philly’s Shrinking Middle Class
The indispensable PEW Charitable Trusts have released a big report on the decline of the middle class in Philadelphia. Here are five charts to help […]
Your Unofficial SEPTA Etiquette Guide
Last year, we gave you a Reddit roundup of the best SEPTA etiquette tips out there. (Example: “stop eating Mcdonalds when I’m hammered and hungry.”) […]
Is After-Midnight Service Returning to SEPTA Subways?
This week we told you about Conrad Benner’s petition to have SEPTA’s Broad Street and Market-Frankford lines run 24 hours a day, seven days a […]
The New Google Maps: Philadelphia Edition
You’ll notice a bunch of new features about Google Maps today, which is officially rolling out its upgraded version. (Or you might not notice much, […]
Interview: Can SEPTA Provide 24/7 Subway Service?
Conrad Benner is probably best known to the Philadelphia public as the man behind Streets Dept, a funky photo blog that chronicles the city in […]
Welcome to Pothole Hell, Philadelphia
Now that this brutal winter has had its way with us — and I’m just going to pretend that there’s not an entire month of […]