Well, insofar as it exists, we guess it's better.

You may recall, over the summer, we told you that the Philadelphia Sheriff's Office was lacking a website. We labeled this office an embarrassment at this time, citing their inability to put together a simple website, considering they have an annual budget

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Happy Holidays!
25 December, 2012 | No Comments |

A very Merry Christmas from Naked Philly, OCF Realty, and OCF Coffee House!

Photo credit: Yoni Avital

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A sprawling six-acre property that backs up to Cobbs Creek Park is for sale on eBay for $4.5M. Perhaps an internet giant might be interested in the site. Or an established institution looking to expand.

Originally constructed as the Baptist Orphanage in 1885, according to the ad, 1300 S. 58 St. was most recently owned

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In the past couple of years, the Graduate Hospital neighborhood has seen a new wave of high-end development projects consisting of several town homes being built all at once, with prices exceeding $600K per house. Some, but not all of these developers, have used land formerly occupied by churches to

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It's been two and a half years, but it looks like it's finally going to happen. We last checked in on the Honey's Sit 'n Eat 21st & South location about ten months ago, and from the outside, little has changed.

But according to the wise and all-knowing Michael Klein, it

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Back in April, groundbreaking took place for a new Home2 Suites by Hilton on the corner of 12th & Arch. This corner had been a parking lot for many years, and we were excited last year when we first heard about this plan.

Unfortunately, as the hotel has risen from the ground,

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Lombardi's, located at 132 S. 18th St., is one of the more delicious pizza places we've visited in Philadelphia. Unfortunately, it's been closed for seven years, the building has been torn down, and a middling restaurant and a bunch of really expensive condos have taken its place.

Oh, we've survived these

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As you are probably well aware, our school district has been dealing with severe financial issues for the past few years. One way that they are attempting to make up for budget shortfalls is by (slowly) selling off vacated school buildings. We've been covering this intermittently over the last year,

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If you've lived in Philly for a minute, you've come to realize the wealth of dive bars that we possess in this fine town of ours. South Philly has a good but shrinking selection, with luminaries such as Ray's and Bonnie's Capistrano Bar heading a group of dimly lit, often

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A few weeks ago, we told you about 225 Carpenter St., a new construction residential property in Queen Village that was utilizing questionable materials in the cladding of its facade. Additionally, the builders were apparently building too tall, and without proper permits.

A reader checked in the other day and gave

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