If you're picking up a copy of Inquirer columnist Faye Flam's first book, The Score (subtitled "How the Quest for Sex Has Shaped the Modern Man") looking for a titillating chronicle of men's sex lives, look elsewhere. Likewise, if you're looking for groundbreaking scientific research explaining why, for instance, guys like porn, you've picked up the wrong book. Flam is a journalist, pure and simple, so she's neither trying to arouse nor to astound. What......

The sustainability revolution is sweeping the nation, as consciousness shifts from a mentality of environmental degradation to one of preservation. According to the Inquirer, “Going Green” is quickly becoming the purview of local colleges, as administrators look for ways to contribute to the sustainability movement. Area schools such as Arcadia University, Muhlenberg College, and Philadelphia University have added courses or concentrations in sustainability. Villanova has gone one step further by naming is naming its coming......

The Comcast Building has a gigantic TV! Who'd have thunk it? Note to self: posting a YouTube video of yourself waving a gun while threatening cops is not protected by the first amendment. Mayor Nutter has endorsed a long-term waterfront development plan for the Delaware River. Because it's likely that the casinos planned to be built in the area will interfere with his vision of a pedestrian-friendly extension of the city grid, expect some major......

Leading today's news is the manhunt for Eric DeShann Floyd, one of the bank robbers responsible for the murder of Philadelphia police sergeant Stephen Liczbinski at Port Richmond's Bank of America this Saturday. Local boxer Levon T. Warner is already in custody for his participation in the bank robbery turned homicide case that cost Liczbinkski his life. The Inquirer updates readers on the imminent eviction of the Cradle of Liberty Council Boy Scouts chapter from......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Phillyist Angela forwarded this on to us. It's a letter sent to Inquirer subscribers from the Pennsylvania Treasury. But despite all the presumed brainpower between the two, they couldn't catch......

As none other than the New York Times recently reported, Philadelphia's newspaper situation is experiencing a bit of an upswing, or at least a comfortable plateau, compared to the state of things during the vomit-inducing dissipation of Knight-Ridder's ability to hang on to the Inquirer and the Daily News, not to mention the 30 other papers it was forced to sell off last year. Publisher Brian Tierney, whose Philadelphia Media Holdings, LLC acquired the Philly......