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April 7, 2016

Philly News Briefs: 4/7/16

1.) With the national tax filing deadline of April 18th less than two weeks away, now is the time to be thinking about how you will file your taxes, if you haven’t done so already. A Philadelphia nonprofit has paired up with a major bank to offer free tax prep services for working families… and it’s on a bus! The […]

April 6, 2016

Celebrate Villanova’s Win at Friday’s Parade!

Philadelphia will celebrate Villanova’s NCAA win with a citywide parade this Friday. The Wildcats are the 2016 NCAA National Champions, an accolade that has left fans throughout the city delirious with excitement. Mayor Jim Kenney announced that plans for the parade have been in the making ever since Villanova made it to the National Championship against North Carolina. According to […]

April 5, 2016

The Concrete Cowboys of SW Philly Get Coverage

I have to admit, I love the website Oddity Central. It’s good as a one-stop shop for all news that’s uncanny, bizarre, or just plain strange. You also occasionally get a more “normal” story about something that’s just a little unexpected, and that was the case with the site’s recent story on the “Concrete Cowboys” of southwest Philadelphia. Picture, if […]

April 4, 2016

Hillary Heading to Philly on Wednesday

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton will come stumping in Philadelphia on Wednesday. Clinton is visiting the City of Brotherly Love ahead of the Pennsylvania primary on April 26th. She will address the state via the state AFL-CIO convention in Philadelphia. Afterwards, she will cross the state to Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University to attend a campaign organization meeting. While other unions […]

March 31, 2016

Taxi and Limo Drivers Threaten to Boycott DNC

The Democratic National Convention, due to be held this summer in Philadelphia, promises to bring a big economic boost to the city. Delegates, politicians, reporters, and spectators will need hotel rooms to sleep in, restaurants at which to order lunch and dinner, and attractions at which to entertain themselves in between convention events. Philly has them covered on all those […]

March 29, 2016

Could Philadelphia’s DNC Be Contentious?

When talking about national political conventions this year, it seems like all eyes are on Cleveland, where the Republican National Convention will be held this summer. Will the Republican Party actually award a nomination to the wildly-contentious Donald Trump, or will political machinations ensure that someone more moderate takes the vote? It remains to be seen. Interesting things are at […]

March 25, 2016

The Linguistic Jawn About “Jawn”

It’s a uniquely Philadelphian phenomenon: the use of the catch-all noun “jawn” to describe everything from “that object over there” to a group of people to a cell phone to a lawnmower. But why does Philadelphia have this word, which isn’t used anywhere else in the country? And how did it come to be? A group of linguistics experts have […]

March 24, 2016

Comcast Rolls Out Internet Essentials in Philadelphia

Hammering out Comcast’s new 15-year franchise agreement with the city of Philadelphia was a grueling 15-month process that saw plenty of back-and-forth between the cable/internet/phone provider and city officials. Part of that final agreement came to fruition last Thursday when Comcast rolled out Internet Essentials to 5,000 low-income families throughout the City of Brotherly Love. Internet Essentials is a low-cost […]

March 23, 2016

Philly Pushes Forward With Pre-K Plan

Under Mayor Jim Kenney, Philadelphia is attempting to move forward with its big plan for universal pre-K education for the city’s 3- and 4-year-olds. The topic was a major campaign focus for Kenney, who promised that he could bring the plan to fruition. So far, however, attempts to do so are being thwarted by budgetary concerns. Back in May of […]