City Living
Man Builds Boat, Can’t Get It To Water
What have you been doing for the last eight years? Whatever it is, it’s probably not as impressive as what Swarthmore alumnus Jonah Eaton has […]
What Philadelphia Looks Like Without Any People (And Colored Red)
Photographer Bruce Wayne Berry, Jr., doing it infrared-style. More at Gizmodo.
A New Pew Poll Says Philly is More Negative Than in Historically Bad 2009. Really?
C’mon, Philadelphia. It’s not that bad. Sure, the schools are underfunded. Yes, the General Assembly seems to want to kill our transit system. Fine, the […]
Butkovitz: Be Careful Which Philly Bridges You’re Using
City Controller’s office press release: City Controller Alan Butkovitz today released a follow up review of the Department of Streets’ Bridge Maintenance Unit that found […]
Crowdsourcing Big Brother: Police Turn to Private Cameras for Surveilance
Remember, earlier this year City Controller Alan Butkovitz criticized the city’s surveillance camera system, saying only about a third of the cameras work? We find […]
Vince Fumo Throwing Himself a Giant Party
Ah, you gotta love Philly. A little more than a month since returning home from a four year stint in a federal prison in Kentucky, […]
Temple Students From Violence-Torn Nations Find Philly Isn’t All That Different
A piece in the Temple News examines how foreign students experience Philadelphia’s, er, elevated crime rate. Nidaa Husain, a photographer from South Africa, made a project […]
They Don’t Like Dog Poop in Passyunk
Fox 29 reports on the anti-poop crusade in Passyunk: The problem’s gotten so bad that passyunkpost.com founder and editor Albert Stumm has decided to out […]
The Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference Is in Town
You knew our city’s vacant real estate was a problem, but I bet you didn’t know it was a big enough problem to hold a […]
Holiday Weekends Create Trash Dilemma for Philly Renters
I’m just one person, living solo in Germantown on one floor of a three-story rowhouse. And since I live in a house with only three […]
In Philadelphia, GPS Gives Turn Instructions at “Site of Shooting”
We’re going to assume this isn’t a Photoshopper with a grim sense of humor: A Philly Reddit user posted the following image of the instructions […]
WATCH: A Flash Mob Dances to Inspire Philly
From the description: “Watch as 50 dancers, ages ranging from 5-25 years old, flashmob all over the city of Philadelphia. Devin put SinCity Danco, Sterling […]
Undercover Officers Set up “Stings” for Philly Bike Thieves
The Daily News reports today that Philly Police set up occasional “stings” to trap bicycle thieves. This is normally where we’d make a joke—”Now that […]
Put the R Back in Regional Rail! Readers Respond.
Last week in this space, I launched a campaign to urge SEPTA to reverse the decision it made last year to drop the R-number route […]
WATCH: Blind Singers Bring Soul to Philly Streets
This is fairly striking: Singin’ Soul Philly from justjohnny on Vimeo. This looks to be some of the same group of people that City Paper […]