Roundup: Where To Celebrate Black History Month In Philadelphia, February 2015

Philadelphia’s rich African American history is celebrated in all parts of town for Black History Month. The city celebrates Black History Month — February — with a variety of special events, exhibitions, film screenings and family-friendly activities at establishments all over. Learn about African American history at a variety of exhibits, or groove to tunes […]

Love it or hate it, Zillow is here to stay

Love it or hate it, Zillow is not going anywhere. I posted a simple question to my Facebook wall the other day, and the replies indicated why consumers trust Zillow more than they trust real estate...

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Time traveling selfies in found-footage thriller Project Almanac

"Time travel 101."

Roundup: Philadelphia Celebrates Super Bowl 2015 With Game Day Food-And-Drink Deals To Take Out Or Eat In

A photo posted by Di Bruno Bros. (@dibrunobros) on Jan 23, 2015 at 2:56pm PST Just because our Philadelphia Eagles didn't fly to the big game this year is no excuse not to enjoy the NFL's Super Bowl in 2015. This Sunday, February 1, the Seattle Seahawks face the New England Patriots at University of […]

Bell Of The Ball: Philadelphia’s Short-Lived Other Football Team

This Sunday, professional football serves up its biggest feast in its annual Super Bowl spectacle. With the Eagles watching from home again, Matt Szalwinski dusts off some sports history to remember some other local pros who've hit the gridiron, including the 1970s' Philadelphia Bell

Master real estate inbound marketing in 3 steps

It doesn't take a visionary to see the beautiful overlap between being "inbound" and being a real estate agent, but Inbound marketing is not a turnkey solution to growth. It requires persistence and...

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Aye, There’s the Rubb: Barbeque you'll sink your teeth into

A barbecue chef’s rub is a deeply personal thing, and the most devoted practitioners often spend years working to perfect their potion. Countless decisions of spice and sweetness and beyond have to be made, and if any of the ratios are off, the entire edifice falls apart. Imagine, then, how...

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Calendar: Jan. 28-Feb. 4

Wednesday, Jan. 28 GAMES The Big Quiz Thing Fans of Jeopardy, masters of trivia, put your knowledge of minutiae to the ultimate test at World Cafe Live’s Big Quiz Thing. Bring along your smartest friends and answer questions about pop culture, music, history, art and sports to win bragging...

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Major Coming Attraction: The Philadelphia Museum Of Art To Be The Only U.S. Stop For A Tremendous International Exhibition Of Monet, Renoir, Degas And More This Summer

Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, Degas and Manet are among the most celebrated names in fine art today, but these Impressionists might not have known success without the support of one ambitious Parisian art dealer: Paul Durand-Ruel. Lovers of these and other great Impressionist artists largely have Durand-Ruel to thank for recognizing the beauty of the […]

Washington Ave’s Antiquated Zoning Stymies Development

Supermarket beats proposed development, Drexel set to demolish UCHS, photography in Mt. Airy, and CDCs might return to days of more tax credits

Verizon’s Suburban “Station Domination”

SEPTA signs $7 million deal with Verizon, and announces realtime ETA system; bike lanes up 13% over eight years; and good eyes on Sansom

Mortgage calculator helps Realtors route business to lender of choice

A San Francisco-based startup says a mortgage calculator it built to help homebuyers gauge the affordability of listings can now be used by real estate brokers to boost originations by their in-house...

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Tonight Picks: RiverRink Winterfest, Ice Rink At Dilworth Park, Center City Restaurant Week, Pizza Week At Pizzeria Stella And More

Dinner deals continue to reign this evening as Center City Restaurant Week fills plates throughout town and Pizza Week at Pizzeria Stella and Meat Week at Percy Street Barbecue satisfy appetites, too. Also tonight, One Book, One Philadelphia kicks off tonight with a free celebration at the Free Library of Philadelphia. To wrap up your […]

3 tech innovations that solve real estate problems

We're going to talk about your problems. Well, not all your problems, or even most of them, just three real estate-related ones — and how these three nifty new solutions can help ...

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The Grumpy Librarian: Caitlin Goodman tells you what to read

Don't-spill-your-tea. 

Tonight Picks: Center City Restaurant Week, Free Admission To The Franklin Institute, Pizza Week At Pizzeria Stella, Winterfest At Penn’s Landing And More

Scratch your plans to eat dinner at home. Meal deals fill the city as Center City Restaurant Week continues at more than 100 restaurants — and Pizza Week hits Pizzeria Stella while Meat Week hits Percy Street Barbecue. Yum. Another deal: The Franklin Institute offers free admission tonight for its recurring Target Community Night. Watch […]

Haunted by a dead solder: Review of 'The Body of an American' at Wilma Theater

But rather than actually exploring these events and issues, we hear the correspondence of two circumspect, distant, depressed guys.

Food for thought: How Denny Waxman's way of life could impact yours

January’s almost over, and if you’re anything like me, the donuts, fatty meats and Cheetos you’d promised to delete from your diet at the end of 2014 have somehow crept back onto your meal and snacktime menus. It’s not too late to avoid the self-loathing gleaned from yet...

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What do HBO, CBS and MLSs have in common?

If I were to ask 100 people how they watched the latest episode of "Sons of Anarchy," chances are I'd find a good number of folks who used an app on one of their devices. Likewise, if I were to ask...

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