The DNC will be one of the largest public events ever held in Philadelphia, with an estimated 50,000 people expected to attend the week-long convention.
In addition to a free ride, NoMoCab is likely to offer free samples of products ranging from the newest Coca-Cola product to mini bottles of Vodka.
It’s Saturday: 5:20 p.m. There are three hours until a party of 60 Penn students is set to arrive at Iztaccihuatl, and John Lewis, the one-man show behind the popular BYO restaurant in South Philadelphia, is giving me an earful.
“Next Stop: Democracy” is a new civic engagement project which has hired 60 Philadelphia artists to create eye-catching “vote here” signs for the upcoming City Council elections on Nov. 3.
At a local elementary school on Oct. 23, members of Penn's Stimulus Children's Theater, or STIM, performed numbers from their upcoming Fall Show “Junie B. Jones: The Musical” as their community show.
Last year, the issue was highly discussed on campus after members of the Student Labor Action Project and Students Organizing for Unity and Leadership organized a protest at Penn President Amy Gutmann’s annual Christmas party.
Last year, the issue was highly discussed on campus after members of the Student Labor Action Project and Students Organizing for Unity and Leadership organized a protest at Penn President Amy Gutmann’s annual Christmas party.
In addition to a free ride, NoMoCab is likely to offer free samples of products ranging from the newest Coca-Cola product to mini bottles of Vodka.
It’s Saturday: 5:20 p.m. There are three hours until a party of 60 Penn students is set to arrive at Iztaccihuatl, and John Lewis, the one-man show behind the popular BYO restaurant in South Philadelphia, is giving me an earful.
The 2016 conference will take place July 25-29 at the Wells Fargo Center in South Philly.
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She'd worked with Senator Elizabeth Warren to bring attention to federal housing regulations.
This year's ballot includes several candidates for the Pennsylvania state judiciary and five for Mayor of Philadelphia.
In Philadelphia, gun threats shocked campuses in Center City and Germantown later in the week, following the Oct. 1 Oregon shooting.
Community College of Philadelphia went on lockdown this morning after reports of a gunman.
Hope MacKenzie is a College junior who works as one of Sony's Marketing Representatives for Philadelphia, and has a unique student representative experience.
From proxy-blessings to child-births, the Division of Public Safety was all over the city on this weekend.
It felt like a cross between a carnival, concert and the end of a post-apocalyptic movie.
Pope Francis capped his first day in Philadelphia amid an adoring crowd on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, music from multi-Grammy Award winning artists and hardly any logistical problems.
There wasn’t a dry eye in the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul in Center City this morning, as Pope Francis celebrated mass for a packed congregation.
On Friday, the Dalai Lama cancelled his October visit to Philadelphia under doctor's orders.
Here’s a look back at some the last papal visit as well as some other major events in Philly history.
The Inn at Penn, the Homewood Suites Hilton and the Sheraton Hotel still have rooms leftover for the Papal Weekend, despite projections that up to 2 million Catholics would be traveling to Philadelphia.
When the Pope comes to town, transportation around campus is going to be limited almost exclusively to emergency vehicles since Penn is surrounded by some of the best hospitals in Philadelphia.
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