Taff anchors 6ABC’s Action News at 4:00 p.m. (Photograph courtesy of Brian Taff on Facebook). Brian Taff is the quintessential American news anchor. A photogenic family man, Taff anchors 6ABC’s Action News afternoon edition at 4:00 p.m. He’s also very…

A lot of folks don’t know that retailer Five Below is headquatered here in Philadelphia at 18th and Market streets. With that in mind, the retailer is opening its new flagship location at 15th and Chestnut streets on Thursday, Sept.…

Photograph courtesy of J. Fusco for Visit Philadelphia. Kermit the Frog might’ve sung that it’s not “easy bein’ green,” but scientific Americans still want to know a little bit more about the natural hue. With that in mind, this evening,…

President of the AFL-CIO Richard L. Trumka marches in Philadelphia in 2010. (Photograph courtesy of the Philadelphia AFL-CIO). All weekend long, some misguided folks have been posting messages about how Labor Day weekend isn’t “just” a three-day weekend off from…

Photograph of the Bok building courtesy of user Smallbones via Wikimedia Commons. Closing public schools is distressingly no longer news in Philadelphia. Building bars and spots to do yoga atop those shuttered schools garners plenty of attention, though. And, right…

With the president’s recent trip to Alaska and global temperatures still on the rise, environmentalism is an integral part of the nation’s conversation right now. This, of course, means that lots of people are going to try to capitalize on…

Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Police Department. The Philadelphia Police Department says that three teenagers are being sought in connection with reports of taxicabs being robbed at gunpoint. Between Aug. 23 and 26, the PPD says it’s “responded to multiple…

Photograph courtesy of state Sen. Daylin Leach on Facebook. Right now, the Republican-controlled legislature and Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, can’t much agree on anything. In fact, for the past eight weeks, Pennsylvania has been operating without a budget in…

A member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in Seattle in 2014. (Photograph by Joe Mabel via Wikimedia Commons). The Sisters of Perpetual Induglence sounds like a holy order, which is probably why the spritely gender-benders took the name in…