Mike Newall

"She’s not only a helicopter parent, she’s a military-helicopter parent hovering over her kid and attacking the rest."

"Don’t have parents and kids playing double dutch over your new plug-in wheels."

Opened in February, Little Yenta Books had previously been situated speakeasy-style in the back of a neighborhood dress-making studio.

Philly hotels reached nearly 90% occupancy on July 4, according to new data released Friday from Visit Philadelphia.

"My knee-jerk response: Say no, and don’t feel guilty."

McDonald, author of book on coffee's role in the Revolution, said her perfect day includes lots of coffee and cooking, a great Philly workout, and reading crime novels in Rittenhouse Square.

Dispatches from 1776, Part II: What would it feel like to walk the streets of the city 250 years ago?

A new documentary on Philly's oldest operating tavern tells the story of a bar where people "connect and have fun and find love and watch sports." It also tells the tale of a city.

The copy of the Declaration of Independence Jonas Phillips mailed to his relative Gumpel in July 1776 represents one of the 26 surviving original broadsides of the founding document.

Dispatches from 1776: What would it feel like to walk the streets of the city 250 years ago?