The Inquirer is your front-row seat to the Philadelphia region. You can support local, impactful journalism at inquirer.com/bsky-subscribe/.
“He loved it here” and even wanted to name the album after the city, said producer Charlie Hall of the War on Drugs, who worked with Hansard on the album at a studio in Conshohocken.
Irish singer Glen Hansard loved coming to Philadelphia. Here, he worked on an album for a year and shoveled snow for the first time.www.inquirer.comThe team hasn’t announced a starting pitcher for the series opener against the Orioles, but it’s Painter's scheduled day to pitch for triple-A Lehigh Valley.
Source: Andrew Painter joining Phillies before Friday’s game vs. Orioleswww.inquirer.comNow healthy and with a more assured role, the former first-rounder looks poised to take a leap in his second year as an Eagle.
Jihaad Campbell’s second season with the Eagles comes with positional clarity and a clear role. What’s next?www.inquirer.comPolice in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in Central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.
This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will Bunchwww.inquirer.comThe robot met its end in Elfreth’s Alley on Aug. 1, 2015.
hitchBOT was decapitated on this week in Philly historywww.inquirer.comRepublican Rep. Jeff Van Drew supported the initial FEMA request but did not join the letter calling on Trump to reverse his rejection of aid for the deadly February snowstorm in N.J.
N.J. Democratic delegation asks President Trump to reverse FEMA aid rejection for deadly February snowstormwww.inquirer.comComplete our survey to see what assistance you can apply to and how much you’d save on your real estate taxes.
Use our tool to see if you're eligible for property tax relief.www.inquirer.comThe beloved building was gutted by fire a year ago. Most of the interior demolition has now been completed and its rooms can be ringing with music in three years.
Curtis’ $25 million plan for the Art Alliance building includes a 2,900-square-foot rehearsal hallwww.inquirer.comA developer is planning to build 807 housing units on 30 acres of Manayunk’s Venice Island, bringing an end to years of questions by residents about what would become of the land.
Biggest project yet planned for Manayunk’s Venice Island with more than 800 homeswww.inquirer.comFor more than a year, the fate of the Philadelphia Sexual Assault Response Center lurched from one near-miss to the next, kept alive by emergency city money and a reluctant university.
Inside the scramble to save Philadelphia’s only free sexual assault exam centerwww.inquirer.comQual-Tran Products Company LLC was charged in federal court earlier this month.
Montco parts supplier for SEPTA conspired to rig bids, federal prosecutors saywww.inquirer.comThe district's “level of incompetence didn’t just fail one child — it put every young man on the football team at risk,” the Montgomery County grand jury report said.
Cheltenham School District faulted by prosecutors in locker-room assaultswww.inquirer.comA 48-year-old man suspected of being the hit-and-run driver on Kelly Drive that killed 20-year-old Temple University student Bryce Wolfe in June was arrested Thursday, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
A suspect arrested in the fatal hit-and-run of a Temple University student on Kelly Drivewww.inquirer.comZum Inc. got part of a 5-year, $483 million yellow bus contract from the Philadelphia School District. Its air-conditioned buses provide parents with real-time information about their kids' rides.
Philly parents will be able to track some school buses in real time — for the first time everwww.inquirer.comIncluded in that total, achieved during the first full year of President John Fry’s tenure, are some major gifts including $55 million from Christopher Barnett to rename the College of Public Health.
Temple raised a record $214 million in the last fiscal year. Some of the money will support students during a budget crunchwww.inquirer.comThe WLL's inaugural championship is Aug. 15 at Subaru Park in Chester. The league boasts 18 players and two coaches with ties to the area.
The Women’s Lacrosse League is preparing to make history in the Philly area. To Mayor Parker, ‘it’s about opening doors.’www.inquirer.comWill Tran, a rising senior rower and computer science major, created RowIQ, which provides an in-depth look on how rowers can improve with “data that’s never been seen before.”
This La Salle rower built an app that’s changing the way athletes train — and the future of rowingwww.inquirer.comThe first nonbinary actor to win a Tony for best leading actor in a musical will also play “Mary’s Husband” in other stops of the touring production.
‘Some Like it Hot’ actor J. Harrison Ghee will play Mary Todd Lincoln in the Philadelphia run of ‘Oh, Mary!’www.inquirer.comMany people think Bradley Cooper is from Jenkintown. But like many Abingtonians, he’s living a lie.
Is Bradley Cooper really from Jenkintown? We investigate.www.inquirer.comThe new Liberty Bell stream has racked up more than a quarter million streams since it was installed about a month ago, according to EarthCam’s CEO.
A new live stream camera at the Liberty Bell increases access, but raises questions for privacy expertswww.inquirer.com