Haunting Holmesburg Prison
It's Halloween and we've rounded up the work of seven photographers for a super-sized photo essay on creepy Holmesburg Prison. Enjoy! > more
Two New Books Provide A Fitting Eulogy To Byberry State Hospital
House of horrors? From 1990, when it closed, until 2006, when it was demolished, the legend of Byberry State Hospital in the Northeast grew in our imagination. Now two new books aim to set the complicated record straight. Ethan Wallace has the review > more
Light Filters Down Below
Photographer Jessie Fox found herself down below, in an abandoned subway station; here's what she saw > more
The Pretense Of Ornament
This week, we began to search for images of Philly's golden age of jazz, the 1940s-1960s, and so far we've found almost nothing in the archives. But then most of that world is gone--eviscerated. Nathaniel Popkin, with a little help from Joseph Mitchell, laments > more
With Ortlieb’s Destined for the Wrecking Ball, An Artist Speaks Up
Last month a mysterious flag appeared on top of the tree that graced the roof of the abandoned and soon-to-be demolished Ortlieb's Brewery building in Northern Liberties. We've got the story of how it got up there--and why > more
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