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It’s a celestial event for the ages: Tonight (and early tomorrow morning) marks the first total lunar eclipse in two years. ...
15 years ago
Report finds Philadelphia is a creative force
It may be difficult to quantify creativity, but a new report issued by Philadelphia’s office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Econ ...
15 years ago
For those residents who are voters in the 185th State Representative District, there is a Special Election on February 1, 2011 to fill th ...
15 years ago
Laughing all the way to the (fuel) bank
Gas prices are on the rise as Americans get ready to hit the road for the Christmas and New Year holidays. The spike is unusual — t ...
15 years ago
Throwing the (note)book at him
A former transportation security officer at Philadelphia International Airport was sentenced to three years probation for stealing five l ...
15 years ago
The revenue plan a mob boss would love
Suppose we decided tomorrow that there would be only 750 florists in Pennsylvania, and that the state would auction off the 750 florists ...
15 years ago
As New Jersey governor, Chris Christie is a love ’em or hate ’em kinda guy. A new poll from Rutgers-Eagleton finds 29 percent ...
15 years ago
Simple, understated and rough around the edges. Those descriptions are fitting not just for Philadelphia, but for the city’s take o ...
15 years ago
The Christmas songs you won’t hear on B-101
Arts reporter and reluctant Christmas song expert Peter Crimmins takes you on an audio stroll through some of his favorite tunes. What ar ...
15 years ago
Don’t try this at home, kids. A Thai woman attempted to smuggle $50,000 work of ecstacy into Indonesia last week. In her stomach. T ...
15 years ago
Christie taps new education chief for N.J.
N.J. Gov. Christie on Monday made it official as he selected former New York City schools deputy chancellor Chris Cerf to be the state ...
15 years ago
Beginning Wednesday, you can get money-saving tips from coupon experts on TLC’s new program Extreme Couponing. ...
15 years ago
Pa. Gpv. – elect Tom Corbett has nominated the head of his Office of Administration. Corbett has chosen Mechanichsburg’s Kell ...
15 years ago
Lenfest gives $750,000 to “Philly Goes 2 College”
The Philadelphia program to get more city students into and graduated from college just got a big donation. The Lenfest ...
15 years ago