Freedom From Religion Foundation Annie Laurie Gaylor has dedicated her life to scrubbing the Catholic church’s influence from the U.S. government. She, along with her mother, founded the Freedom From Religion Foundation now the largest group advocating on behalf…
Hillary Petrozziello Hillary Petrozziello Hillary Petrozziello Hillary Petrozziello Hillary Petrozziello Hillary Petrozziello Hillary Petrozziello For the uninitiated, stepping into Makkah Market, a 24-hour Middle Eastern grocery store in West Philadelphia, is a bewildering experience, especially at 2 a.m. It’s easy…
Wikimedia Commons A SWAT team, according to The Philadelphia Tribune, burst into Kasey Jones’ home in Southwest Philadelphia on Saturday, Aug. 23, looking for a murder suspect named Tyree Peel. The police unit had issued a warrant for Peel’s arrest,…
The World Meeting of Families launched its online “Papal Visit Playbook” at noon today, and the site is, so far, the best place to go for centralized info regarding Pope Francis’ September visit to Philly. For residents, who until now…
Mark Stehle The MacArthur Foundation in May announced it would give grants worth $150,000 each to 20 city governments, provided each town would, in turn, come up with a plan to reduce its prison population. Thankfully, the foundation…
Maria Young Shipments of crude oil by rail through Philadelphia have increased dramatically in the last few years, thanks to increased natural gas drilling in the central part of the country. According to a City Paper piece from April, nearly 710,000…
The City Paper staff nearly put a call in to the Secret Service this morning, when, after opening a package we’d received from Lincopia, Sweden, an unlabeled DVD and what appeared to be a hand-cut ransom note, which mentioned the pope,…
Peter Heacock Peter Heacock’s Vines often show him shrinking, growing, or changing shape. Maria Young Heacock replays footage from a stop-motion video he and his intern, Joan Kamberaj, are creating. Maria Young Hogwarts Castle rises from the rubble, frame by…
Wikimedia Commons Google, the search engine and corporate behemoth that continues to dip its toes into stranger, more disparate sectors of the world economy, announced yesterday that it has, in fact, grown too large to operate as a single entity,…
Wikimedia Commons At City Council’s final meeting of the season on June 18, Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, who represents much of West Philadelphia, introduced a bill that would, if passed, impose limits on food trucks that regularly park on Drexel’s campus…
