Bradford Pearson

For those two- and three-bedroom rents I'm surprised more people aren't just biting the interest-rate bullet and buying. (Still nice to see some family-sized apartments, though.)

This is even funnier when you realize the person who signed the Federal Employee Fair Treatment Act—which guarantees back pay for furloughed employees—was of course Donald Trump.

The funniest part of this to me is Ellison including the 1.5 million readers bit. Like...that's not that many! We had 1.1 million users visit Philly Mag's website last month and I'm not eagerly anticipating an offer to take over a major broadcast news agency.

dropping the all-caps PHILLIES on your first-grade spelling test >>>>

A South Philadelphian first-grade spelling test. The bonus word is PHILLIES.

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genuinely surprised that Since U Been Gone, the greatest pop song of the millennium, hasn’t yet been used in this manner

I‘m admittedly a sap but I definitely didn’t expect to cry that much during One Battle After Another. As soon as [expertly placed song] dropped in the [surprisingly poignant athletic venue] I knew I was cooked.

Ohtani never plays well in Philly because of our well-documented home field advantage (giant casino right next to the ballpark)

this should've been part of the alumni newsletter!

The Curious and Twisty Love Story Between New Orleans and Disney The fascinating, decades-long dalliance between the Crescent City and the Disney version of it, starring a cartoon princess, Creole chefs, mechanical tiki birds, and the world’s most meticulously rese...

Loved this new @brettmartin.bsky.social story even though it's about something I care very little about (Disney, not New Orleans)

this is somehow the face of a man who was in college when Half Baked was in theaters

I have zero doubt that Liza Minnelli owns this entire outfit

The Free Press has roughly the same number of subscribers as WHYY, Philly's public media station, has donors.

genuine question: has Bari Weiss edited a single investigative story in her life?

And, just seven years ago, you had to fly to Nevada to do even that!

I explained multi-sport parlays and I thought he was going to roll out of the car.

And this was leaving a Phils game! This is someone who enjoys watching sports in person, which, now that I think about it, is probably the most insulated you can get from betting today and still follow a team?

I was trying to explain online sports betting to a very offline, flip-phone carrying friend the other day and you would've thought I was trying to explain it to a Pilgrim. "You can just...do it on your phone? And they're giving people money just for signing up? That seems...bad?"

It does, Rob!

This is an astounding leap in just three years, and it's great news for American society in general that these guys are starting to see just how destructive the proliferation of sports betting is.

Convincing every sports league and TV network of the same thing is going to be much more difficult.

“Gratis” is such an insane word to use here, like your story is a little homemade candy at the end of a prix fixe meal

There's a guy in my neighborhood who drives an old Nissan Murano and looks so much like Xi Jinping that I've almost convinced myself that it is him and that he's living this really nice South Philly life—tomato pie, an occasional Phils game, citywides at Ray's.

I think about this more than I should

I'd be surprised if even one or two percent of Pennsylvanians know the budget is delayed. I think this is one of those things where the media bubble is very real.

so-depressing-you-want-to-cry stat in today's Quinnipiac poll of Pennsylvania poll.qu.edu/images/polli...

as a fellow Fed Husband this is the first shutdown where I've thought "hmm, we might not actually get that money at the end of all this"

oh Ironic by a mile, I think. Ironic was played on every kind of station when it came out, whereas You Oughta Know was only on rock/alt stations.

After Four Years, Cantina La Martina Is Closing Catina La Martina, the popular Mexican Restaurant in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood, announces that it's closing next month.

Man this one hurts

This section here isn't getting anywhere near the headlines it deserves. Telling people who've dedicated decades of their life to defending America to kick rocks.

I think about this every time I see this little gremlin

cannot independently confirm, but signs point to yes

question: does anyone know if Picador is set to publish Emily St John Mandel's new "mind-bending epic" novel?

The $400 Million Restaurant Man

Hidden deep in this (very good) Times profile of Stephen Starr is the fact that he's going to reboot Mission Chinese in Philly?!