Large fire broke out at three-storey rowhouse in FairmountOfficials say four smoke detectors in building were not workingA large house fire in Philadelphia early on Wednesday killed 13 people, including seven children, and sent two people to hospitals,…
Why accounts of Philadelphia train passengers not intervening in a rape spread
A police narrative of people watching a man rape a woman was ‘not true’, but it still ran wild in the press – similar to a 1964 murder that prompted the ‘bystander effect’The news was horrifying, a parable of inhumanity so grim that it was destined to …
Cast down the mighty/send the rich away/fill the hungry/lift the lowly
Ben Wildflower is a Philadelphia-based artist who makes Christian anarchist prints, most famously one of Mary with a raised fist and ringed with words from the Magnificat (artist’s note). In an interview with Killing the Buddha, Wildflower discusses hi…
Amazon expands same-day Prime delivery to 6 more U.S. cities
Amazon announced this morning it’s expanding its faster, same-day delivery service to half a dozen more U.S. cities. The service, which the retailer has been working to make same-day delivery even faster over the past year, now offers consumers in a number of markets the ability to shop up to 3 million items on Amazon.com, […]