Several Philly-area programs lose Department of Justice funding

Billy Penn recently reported on the Cure Violence Basketball League, one of the programs offered by a local public health initiative.  The winter basketball league provided a free, welcoming and safe environment for adult men in Kensington and across the city to get some exercise, practice social skills and improve sportsmanship, New Kensington Community Development […]

The Biggest Cargo Theft Ring in Philadelphia History

Longform Snow crab legs. Chicken wings. Thousands of pounds of beef. Since 2022, Philadelphia has experienced an unprecedented surge in cargo theft, one that flooded nightly newscasts and social media accounts. That is, until Philly police and the Department of Justice cracked the case. Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your […]

Turns Out Not Everybody Loves Angelo’s in South Philadelphia

News Plus, a Main Line fracas over a Philly bagel shop. Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! The line outside South Philadelphia’s Angelo’s Pizzeria, where people wait in line for hours for cheesesteaks (photo by Gene Smirnov) Check phillymag.com each morning Monday […]

Philly puts 2 on TIME’s 2025 Most Influential People List

TIME Magazine’s 2025 list of the 100 Most Influential People came out this week, and Philly had two representatives: Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts and Chutatip “Nok” Suntaranon, the visionary chef behind Kalaya. Each winner was the subject of a short essay by another celebrity. Here’s what they had to say. Jalen Hurts Hurts’ journey from […]

FIFA president visits Philly to promote upcoming summers of World Cup soccer

Gianni Infantino may be the president of soccer’s global governing body, FIFA, but he knew enough in his first-ever visit to Philadelphia Thursday to drop multiple “Go Birds” into his remarks. (He did not drop in an “E-A-G-L-E-S …”) Infantino was here to promote this summer’s Club World Cup and see how preparations were going […]

Where four UArts students landed after the school’s abrupt closure

Former faculty, students and staff are still grappling with the abrupt closure of University of the Arts nearly nine months ago. UArts filed for bankruptcy in September after a merger plan between UArts and Temple University failed. Since then, the school and its assets have been up for auction to repay creditors. One remaining building […]

Philly’s Mob history comes to life on new tour

A new tour in Philadelphia is offering visitors a glimpse into the city’s Prohibition-era underworld. The Philly Mob Tour, organized by Founding Footsteps, takes participants through the streets of Philadelphia, exploring stories of mob bosses, bootleggers and law enforcement crackdowns that shaped the city from the 1920s to today. Tim McAleer, founder of Founding Footsteps, […]

Mayor Parker pushes to slash business taxes and spend millions on housing

Philadelphia would cut business tax rates every year and begin spending hundreds of millions of newly allocated dollars on housing and drug treatment programs under a proposed 2026 budget Mayor Cherelle Parker presented Thursday. In her second annual budget address before City Council, Parker celebrated sharp drops in violent crime during her first year in […]

Even in Philly, some support Trump’s mass firings

The Trump administration’s mass firings of federal employees last week sparked anguished denunciations from the affected workers and many others in Philadelphia.  Congressman Brendan Boyle, a Democrat, spoke at a union rally outside Independence Hall and called the sudden dismissal of some 400 IRS workers in the city “a blow to these families, to our […]

IBEW Local 98 fined $25,000 for Dougherty lobbying

More than three years after a federal jury found former union leader John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty and former City Councilmember Bobby Henon guilty of corruption, the legal repercussions of their illegal activities from nearly a decade ago are still playing out. The union that Dougherty led and Henon worked for, the International Brotherhood of Electrical […]

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