Here’s what beer is the most popular in every state
What’s on tap? Since it’s Labor Day weekend, we thought we’d talk about America’s favorite adult beverage. The most popular beer in every state To identify America’s most popular beers,…
Philadelphia-born and bred Saturday Evening Post will stop printing next year
Listen to article • 0:00 minAfter 205 years, the Saturday Evening Post, the famed magazine that printed its first issues on Ben Franklin’s Old City printing press and whose Norman…
How a real-life Antarctic experiment inspired Chloe Benjamin’s ‘Under Story’
Six years ago, Chloe Benjamin, author of the New York Times bestseller “The Immortalists,” was hunting for inspiration for her next work of fiction. “The Immortalists” had been published to…
Senior living: Flutter or skipped heartbeat? What to know after 50
By Dr. Nikhil P Warrier, Guest columnist As people age, the risk of heart disease rises — often without obvious symptoms. After age 50, natural changes in the body begin…
I deleted Instagram for two weeks. Now I see why people pay for Brick and other app-blockers
Listen to article • 0:00 minWithin minutes of waking up, I can’t help but reach for it. The iPhone on my nightstand has a gravitational pull. I swipe through my…
Public payments, private profits: A half-century of methadone in America
This is the first installment of a four-part series. They must be observed taking their daily medicine, at least in the beginning. The clinician often wears a white lab coat…
Some of Philly’s oldest restaurants are closing or changing hands. What’s going on?
Listen to article • 0:00 minAn unusually visible collection of Philadelphia-area restaurant institutions is reaching a turning point at the same time — with some closing for good and others…
Greene: The writing about test scores is on the wall. Too bad we can’t read it
A Texas teacher went viral last week after crying in a video he posted on social media about how poorly his high school students were reading and writing. Darius Williams,…
Montco joins thousands of others in suing social media giants over harms to teen mental health
Listen to article • 0:00 minMontgomery County on Tuesday sued some of the nation’s largest social media companies in a Northern California federal court, joining nearly 3,000 actions from parents,…
Three Cheers to a DMN food writer, World Cup, financial literacy
1 DMN food writer Sarah Blaskovich – Re: “Blaskovich wins award for excellence,” Sunday Metro story. A huge congratulations to Sarah Blaskovich on winning the prestigious Excellence in Journalism Award…