City cites two West Philly businesses destroyed by city-contracted demolition crew Why did demolition crew taking apart Elena’s Soul Lounge damage Gary’s Nails and Cedar Park Café? 0 comments City cites two West Philly businesses destroyed by city-contracted demolition crew…

Kensington property owners: The city is stealing our land via eminent domain (UPDATED) Around late September, property owners along Bodine and Cadwallader streets in Kensington started getting notices in the mail: The Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority wanted to take their property,…

Occupy protesters acquitted in Wells Fargo case (UPDATED) The Web site for the award-winning alternative weekly, the Philadelphia City Paper. 0 comments email Occupy protesters acquitted in Wells Fargo case (UPDATED) POSTED: Tuesday, March 5, 2013, 12:31 PM After lengthy…

Boilo, the anthracite coal-miner’s cure for everything The Web site for the award-winning alternative weekly, the Philadelphia City Paper. 0 comments email Boilo, the anthracite coal-miner’s cure for everything Filed Under: Booze | Recipes | Weird Regional Foods POSTED: Wednesday,…

How Republicans stole the House. Legally. Democrats won 50.7 percent of the votes for Congressional seats in Pennsylvania, but won just 27.7 percent of House seats. Gerrymandering is disenfranchisement. Back to Blog home email font size comments 0 share LinkedIn…

Philly high school seniors: We’re being set up to fail “The scary part is that I believe that they don’t think that we, the students of the Philadelphia School District are going to succeed. So they take money away from…

A whopping 43 percent of Philly voters may not have voter ID, according to new data The number of Pennsylvanians who might not have the photo ID necessary to vote has more than doubled from earlier estimates. At least 1,636,168…

Lu Ann Cahn, an award-winning journalist for NBC 10, will give the keynote address on Saturday night at the Philadelphia Writers’ Conference. In November, Cahn published I Dare Me, a book about recharging by pushing yourself to do one new…

City Paper grade: B- Baltasar Kormákur’s adaptation of Steven Grant’s graphic novel has light touches of anti-big-gov sentiment, but it’s mostly a vehicle for two veteran action motormouths to jab jaws at each other between emptying clips. Paired off in…