Disregarding the image a few posts below, the More Park, Less Way meeting — where plans were discussed for the future of the Ben Franklin Parkway — took place Monday night at the Academy of Natural Sciences. The meeting was a result of collaborative idea-sharing between Parks and Recreation, PennPraxis, and the Penn Project on [...]

Switch out that Swooash Drink sign for a Mohegan Sun one, and we’re in business. The date is approaching for all of those casino proposals to be presented, and the Market East Associates proposal just got a whole lot more interesting: Today it was announced that Mohegan Gaming Advisors (the people behind Mohegan Sun) have [...]

It may just be me, but these plans for the Parkway look like a textbook illustration explaining menstruation. Someone really should have thought twice before using a pink and red palette. Oh dear. More on this in a moment. Previously: The Road Less Stupid: Cross Your Fingers For Ben Franklin Parkway 2.0

Anyone who has ever driven on the highways in this city — we’re looking at you, 76 — knows that traffic is a fact of life. We didn’t really need a list to tell us that, but we got one anyway: According to the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Philadelphia has the 9th highest traffic congestion [...]

Philadelphia2035: The Game from Community PlanIt on Vimeo. Okay, let’s be honest here, the “game” is more like a giant survey. But it has got missions and goals and boss battles (so we’ve been informed) and you can use your coins you earn in the game to fund real community projects. So that’s cool, right? [...]

Some among us (namely we here at the Philebs and good ol’ Joe “Senator Amtrak” Biden) think high speed rail travel is pretty damn cool. We mean, sitting inside a 220-MPH silver bullet (another one of Biden’s favorites) and getting to some faraway destinations in a matter of hours? What’s not cool about that? The [...]

We told you last week that Cool Coccoon, the new one from The Spinto Band, is up on Spotify, and getting lots of love all over the place. Add to the list: NPR’s All Songs Considered, who just premiered the video above. The Spintos play Johnny Brenda’s on February 16th.

>>> The Sixers were already playing most of their season without the trade-acquired Andrew Bynum, and now another piece is missing: Thaddeus Young will miss about three weeks with a hamstring strain. [USA Today] >>> Michael Vick will reportedly not be cut by today’s deadline, so he will make — at the very least — [...]

Well, technically: The City of Philadelphia has filed a petition with the PA Supreme Court “asking it to use its King’s Bench [Ed. note: Oh fancy] powers to take immediate jurisdiction over the City’s lawsuit to break the deadlock in labor negotiations with AFSCME District Council 33.” The city has been in a years-long stalemate [...]

Imagine for a second you are WHYY‘s Tom MacDonald. You’re in the Super Dome during the Super Bowl, just outside the 49ers locker room, and you have to plug some things in. So, you plug the equipment you need for some remote broadcasting into an extension cord. Then you power the equipment on. Then half [...]

This is the preview of the movie from the guy who stood at Broad and Vine yesterday dressed up in a klan robe to make “a stance that the number of African-Americans killed has surpassed the number of victims in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and African-Americans have killed more of their own people than [...]