In an effort to ease the financial strains on the city of Philadelphia, MayorMichael Nutter is reducing the number of vehicles taken home by city employeesby 40 percent ...
A Q&A with Jessica Remo about the reporting for her March 2009 article “Jon + Kate + 8 = $$$”What did you think of the show before you began reporting?Before I began my research I was a huge fan. There is no denying how adorable the Gosselin children are, and I thought Jon and Kate’s [ ... ] ...
Philebrity broke the news late last night with the full text of a Newspaper Guild memo to its members, and the Inquirer confirmed it this morning with an A1 story: “Inquirer Owner Files for Bankruptcy.”For an in-depth look at what brought Brian Tierney’s Philadelphia Media Holdings group to this drastic step after fewer than three [ ... ] ...
BY VICTOR FIORILLOThanks to an intense rift between longtime Philadelphia Film Festival honcho and TLA Entertainment CEO Ray Murray and the festival’s co-presenters at the Philadelphia Film Society, it looks like all you movie lovers will have to turn to Netflix to get your film fill this spring.The drama started back in December when Murray, [ ... ] ...
When asked back in the summer of 2006 how she felt about the star-making power of American Idol, singer and Mayfair native Joanna Pacitti told Philadelphia magazine’s Richard Rys that she’d “rather have my experience than overnight success.” It seems she’s gotten her wish yet again: Right after she was shown reaching the semifinals last [ ... ] ...
All big-city newspapers have been hurt by the rise of the Internet, declining ad sales, and an economy gone south. But the brain trust at the Inquirer and Daily News has a deeper problem: They think we still need their papers to find out what’s going onBY STEVE VOLKIN THE HEADY early days after Brian [ ... ] ...
Renowned Philadelphia-area artist Andrew Wyeth died this morning at the age of 91. In May 2008, Philadelphia magazine senior writer Matthew Teague spent days with the extended Wyeth family at their Chester County compound, including an almost unprecedented full day with Andrew that comprised his last public interview.Having just finished a painting — a [ ... ] ...