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UPDATE: South Philly Row Home Collapse: “We Made Every Mistake in the Book”
[Updated 10:23 am] Our friends at the Property blog have the latest scoop: The home at 428 Daly Street that exploded yesterday mid-morning was owned […]
Amtrak Engines No Longer Go “Choo Choo!” Now: “Shhhhhhh.”
Amtrak is testing new locomotives to replace the 30-year-old engines that have been hauling passengers up and down the East Coast since Ronald Reagan was […]
Pope Francis: We All Belong Here
In the wake of Pope Francis’s stunning statement on homosexuality yesterday in Rio — asking, “who am I to judge?” regarding homosexuals who “accept the […]
Use My Story to Enact Change, Trayvon Martin’s Mother Tells a Packed Crowd in Philly
The crowded ballroom, filled with a mix of National Urban League members and press, had already sat through an hour of speeches from sponsors and […]
In Defense of the Dick Pic
I’ve never taken a dick pic. Sorry, that’s a lie. The first time I got a digital camera, when I was 13 or 14, I […]
Fired for Being Too Pretty?
A young female, a recent high-school graduate, smiled at the big burly man in the navy blue suit. He sat behind a 3-foot-wide desk. She […]
Butkovitz To Probe Deadly Demolition Collapse
The Inquirer reports City Controller Alan Butkovitz is planning to probe how L&I handled demolition procedures that led to the deadly buildig. collapse on Market […]
9 Reasons To Move To Detroit
Poor Detroit. The city’s been getting a ton of abuse over the past week or so ever since it was announced that they were filing […]
Paoli-Based DuckDuckGo Lets You Browse the Web Privately
Two years ago, a billboard appeared along a busy highway in San Francisco, advertising an obscure online company from Paoli, in Delaware County. A cartoonish […]
Hatboro Makes Spray Paint, Markers Illegal for Kids
Hatboro, a Philadelphia suburb north of town, doesn’t want any more graffiti. So the city government is taking action: The Hatboro Borough Council on Monday […]
If I Had 92 Quadrillion Dollars…
Did you hear about the local man who briefly became the world’s first quadrillionaire? Thanks to what Monopoly used to call a “bank error in […]
Oddsmakers: Royal Baby is George
Proving you can bet on anything, oddsmakers in Britain have calculated the probability of the Royal Baby’s name. “George” seems to be leading the pack. […]
Sorry, Vice. Philadelphia Is Not the Worst Place for Standup Comedy
Philadelphia isn’t the best city in which to perform standup comedy, but it’s certainly not the worst. It’s a town, like so many others, that […]
If Kate Just Gave Birth, Why Do I Have Morning Sickness?
It was the contraction felt around the world, or at least in the Western Hemisphere. When the news broke that the royal water broke, that […]
Huzzah! The Royal Baby Has Been Birthed!
And it’s a boy! Ladies, gents, and Dukes of York, please welcome an 8 pound, 6 oz. male Prince to the Royal Family. We don’t yet […]