We all know that the Philadelphia Parking Authority is the most ruthless and tightly run governmental agency in the city (honestly, if SEPTA ran with the proficiency and exact timeliness of the meter maid who works our block, we’d actually get to work on time), but what we didn’t know

Finally, a reason to love triangles comes to Philly. We haven’t liked this shape since it bested us in Mrs. Bryant’s geometry class back in middle-school, but we are willing to give it second chance today at Plazapalooza: A Celebration of Spring at the Grays Ferry Triangles.
The event, held between

Great progress for Mayor Nutter's Green 2015 initiative this week (which plans to revamp 500 acres of underused land around the city into sustainable green spaces by 2015) as exciting new plans were announced to transform the city's Logan Circle area into a green destination for locals and tourists alike.

The

John Haviland (1792-1852) was the British architect behind the design of the Eastern State Penitentiary. In 1821, four different architects had submitted design proposals for the new prison, and it was ultimately Haviland’s design which was selected. The architect had drawn inspiration for his design from asylums and penitentiaries built

Located at the corner of Callowhill Street and 10th, the Philadelphia Circus of 1890 was not in a typical location for a venue of this type. It sat outside of the theater district, towards the northern limits of the city. This ‘circus’ had originally been called the New National Theater

A new trend in city gardening is spreading across the country, and Philly got our own take on it earlier this month.  An urban garden sharing program that links people looking for a place to grow food with unused yard space has taken root with the help of some green-thumbed

The bi-level loft at 1728 Chestnut Street (Apt. 3) is furnished with the owner's accoutrements, which, we aren't sure, will help or hurt any rental inquiries. The 1,818-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bathroom condo listed for $3750 a month has a pretty gorgeous roof deck (although we love that more modern, minimal style)

A new beer boutique is coming to Manayunk at 4923 Main Street (formerly Events in Style) and the owners are no strangers to the city. The founders of Hawthornes Café, located in Philly’s Hawthorne section, have received a unanimous vote from the Manayunk Neighborhood City Council in favor of

Hermann J. Schwarzmann was a peculiar pick to design 34 structures for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876;  as an unproved engineer, he had never designed a building before. But not to let this seemingly substantial inexperience stand in his way, he set to work designing and building structures to honor

Architect and urban planner Edmund Bacon imagined up the Chestnut Street Tranway, one of the urban renewal projects that followed World War II, in his 1959 essay "Philadelphia in the Year 2009." Bacon remade Chestnut Street as a pedestrian-only thoroughfare with a trolley at its center near 12th Street, a