We just got this flyer in the mail (read: inbox) and thought we should share, given our coverage on the Point Breeze moratorium issue with Anna Verna. The party is being held this Friday in the heart of the very neighborhood fighting these three-story roof decks (and chances are Anna Verna

Chef Tony Inchote---of Dmitri's, Susanna Foo and Twenty Manning fame---will be opening Sawatdee (a Thai greeting meaning "Hello. How are you?") at 1501 South Street at the old Pico De Gallo location. Inchote will be preparing traditional Thai food (i.e: pad Thai, curries, stir-fried basil) as well as many vegetarian dishes, and

At 11:45am today, Pamela Riley called her husband, shaking in her newly bought boots. "I have barely escaped death," Riley said over the phone. Moments before she had arrived at home, 40 or so 100-year old bricks came tumbling down blocking her entrance to her residence at 156 N. Third

If you liked J. Meejin Yoon's interactive Light Drift installation on the Schuylkill River last October, then you're going to love this new project by the Mural Arts Program, in conjunction with the Northern Liberties Neighborhood Association, which plans to bring a more permanent light installation to the city. The

Center City cyclists who swerve through traffic and squeeze through moving cars will have a less dangerous option for a route across town later this summer when the Streets Department implements two new bike lanes. The north and south lanes (linking Spring Garden and South Streets) will complement the current

Front page on Philly.com today is the continuation of one of Nakedphilly's stories from late March, the Philadelphia Housing Authority's $1M lesson in listening to the community. This time the argument is over parking; "PHA submitted a plan without parking or an approved loading zone on 20th Street to accommodate

How fashionable is Philadelphia? That's a question one might not normally ask themselves, and considering the fact that we saw at least two full-grown adults wearing pajama bottoms as pants today in Center City, it's not hard to imagine why we don't ask ourselves questions like that. However, the news

When we first heard that Save the Dream was coming to Philadelphia, we immediately thought that Hakeem “The Dream” Olajuwon was coming out of retirement to help the Sixer’s make a playoff run. But as we looked further into the story, we were just as pleased to see the

If you are like us and enjoy the random bit of departure from our busy lives, then don’t miss your last chance this weekend to seek some solace and cultural heritage at the Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia (we promise that saying the long name is the most

It’s difficult to quantify the impact the new 47,600 square-foot, potentially LEED-Silver-Certified Community College of Philadelphia expansion at 17th and Spring Garden Streets will have on the surrounding neighborhood when it’s finished this summer. According to Forrest Huffman Ph. D., a professor of real estate and finance at Temple University,