The CNN Election Express Bus awaits action near the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Photo by author, SkyscraperSunset.com, March 31, 2008.......

Don’t know about you, but when we think about driving in the city we start to get slight palpitations. Part of it could be that we’re used to walking and Septa; the thought of paying exorbitant amounts to park in UCity on a Friday night convinces us that the El isn’t so bad after all. Plus, there’s storage: when we were living on the outskirts of Center City a parking spot would have cost 2/3......

Teamsters plan to rally outside the Four Seasons Hotel at 18th Street and the Ben Franklin Parkway at 1:30PM today because AmerisourceBergen Corp.'s annual shareholder meeting is being held there at that time, and the teamsters are accusing the company of unfair labor practices. Remember how Rick's Steaks was fighting to stay in the Reading Terminal Market? Well, the fight continues. A recent court ruling dismissed most of Olivieri's claims against Reading Terminal, but Olivieri's......

The Ben Franklin Parkway at 18th Street. Photo by author, SkyscraperSunset.com, February 8, 2008.......

...there's still no building in the world quite like City Hall. Photo by author, SkyscraperSunset.com, September 24, 2007.......

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According to U.S. News & World Report's recently released guide to "America's Best Colleges," University of Pennsylvania is the 7th best college in the nation. Woo hoo! Go U Penn! Yesterday was Unity Day in Philadelphia, the 28th occurrence of this yearly event celebrating families and community pride, featuring dozens of free musical performances. Unfortunately, Unity Day also means lots of road closings: MLK Drive, Kelly Drive around the art museum, and the Ben Franklin......

Organized by FightHunger.org, pedestrians the world over will be putting their feet to pavement to help raise funds and awareness for the number of children who go hungry; which Walk the World estimates to be about 300 milliion. Their goal: to end child hunger by 2015. Locally, this event will begin at the Art Museum, proceed two miles, then return to the Art Museum and culminate with a triumphant Rocky-like run up the Art Museum......

In Phillyist's on-going quest to find interesting things to do with our post-mortem remains and our long-standing philosophical debate on whether or not there's an afterlife (what, you think we sit around the office arguing about cheesesteaks all the time?), writer Mary Roach has become somewhat of a, well...she's our goddess and we just worship at the alter of Mary. And now we get to worship her in person: Mary Roach is speaking in Philadelphia......

By now you've seen them on every street corner in Philly. You've avoided them like the plague. You've sidestepped them, waved them off, and glared at them when they tried to shove a flyer at you. That's right: Philadelphia has been invaded by Jews for Jesus. Jews for Jesus is on a whirlwind East Coast tour, trying to convert us all first to Judaism (for those of us who aren't already Jewish) and then trying......

We spread ourselves across the Ben Franklin Parkway on Saturday, all for you. Well, we kind of wanted to be there, but we also wanted to give you the scoop on what we saw at and what we thought of Philly's big cultural event. Live 8 went off without a hitch, seemingly, but it wasn't perfect. We give you the good, the bad, and the SEPTA. Below are 8 key questions on Live 8 with......

Wagers are being placed as to whether or not the museums, businesses, and residences along the Ben Franklin Parkway and surrounding areas will survive Live 8. Some of us are betting on looting, perhaps a plague of locusts, and some of us just think the crowd will erupt into a swarming crowd of miscreant arsonists. Whatever the case, we can all assume that the Parkway will be awash in urine. City officials are guesstimating......