Andrew Zaleski Scholly founder Christopher Gray, at center, with Steve Case and Benjamin Franklin to his left. Eight startups entered, but at the end of yesterday’s pitch competition at the National Constitution Center, Scholly, a mobile app for finding college…

Photo courtesy of Ofo Ezeugwu. Whose Your Landlord, from left: founder and CEO Ofo Ezeugwu, CTO Nik Korablin, Creative Director Phil Meyer, and COO Felix Addison. When Ofo Ezeugwu founded his startup his junior year at Temple University, he couldn’t…

Andrew Zaleski The Haro family. From left: mother Georgina, son Saul, daughters Nancy and Jenny, and father Jesús. For more than three and a half hours, the Haro family stood behind a barricade lining the circle around Logan Square waiting…

Andrew Zaleski Directing the flow of traffic to McDonald’s on Saturday was Randy Burris. You might have seen Randy Burris yesterday if you were walking around the Francis Festival near City Hall. He was the man holding a sign with…

Andrew Zaleski Jaleel Warren at the end of his sales day Saturday. Jaleel Warren and his crew set up shop early Saturday morning. At 7, they were near the Art Museum, as close as they were allowed to get, trying…

Newsworks: How big of a crowd will be outside in Philly for this weekend’s papal festivities? Aerial photography, computer modeling, and other technologies have made measuring crowd size more exact, as Carolyn Beeler reports. Curt Westergard, owner of a Virginia…

Screenshot via City of Philadelphia’s Instagram page. The City of Philadelphia excitedly announced on one form of social media (Twitter) yesterday, and again this afternoon, that it has joined another form of social media: Instagram. Yes, it is true. The…

Billy Penn: If you tried making a call during the Made in America festival and it didn’t work, what do you suppose will happen when Pope Francis is here next weekend? “The 1.5 million or so people who crowd into…

Andrew Zaleski After his speech, Martin O’Malley belted out Irish songs with The Hooligans. On Thursday night, John Longacre, owner of the American Sardine Bar in Point Breeze, took to the lectern and gave the clearest reason why the evening’s…