“slot machine look-alikes — known as skill games — yet again avoided any form of regulation or taxation.” https://t.co/pRkzgKEYpm

Everyone should pay attention to this.

This feels like the Sixers arena debacle all over again. Via @jakeblumgart

A wonderful summary of the missteps taken along Market East over the last several years. It is incredibly disappointing that the city had done such a poor job with transparency. We deserve to have people who truly care about this area and engage with the public honestly.

Fixing Market East should not be this hard, Philadelphia. Some thoughts on the latest mess. Gift link!

Legacy arts institutions are struggling, yet new ones are still being born in Philly. Today’s column looks at the ambitious Forman Arts Initiative, which will showcase for work by women, Black and brown artists in a fantastic clutch of industrial spaces.

When I started covering Philly architecture in the 2000s there were spate of garage proposals. The applications fell off for awhile, but now there is a new crop. Septa is still underfunded, it is still too easy to drive & the world is growing hotter.

More history, with images of the 1902 East Wing by Charles McKim, controversially demolished by Roosevelt in 1942 for the current version, which now being obliterated for who-knows-what architectural atrocity.

I hate everything the vulgarian-in-chief is doing to the architecture of the White House, but I do think it should be noted that the current east wing was built in 1942 to provide offices and cover the construction of an underground security bunker.

Can we install updated versions of this on all of Philly’s surface parking lots?

The @phillyinquirer ‘s first architecture quiz, courtesy of real estate editor @ericapalan

Just gonna start posting every night that Kay Graham published the second tranche of Pentagon Papers in the middle of an IPO, at the same time Nixon was threatening to pull her FCC licenses.

Trust me.

Has ‘Go Birds’ fully replaced ‘Have a blessed day’ as the top Philly goodbye phrase?

Not only is Calder Gardens like nothing else on the Parkway - it’s like nothing else anywhere. This is a great building, as my review explains. To celebrate, a gift link:

Charlie Kirk (2023): "I think it's worth to have a cost of unfortunately some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the 2nd Amendment. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe."

Wasn't it just a few months ago that the Sixers and the arena bros were telling us that no one takes the subway to the Philly Sports Complex? 🤔 https://t.co/SvN6vH3NLJ

As storms become more intense, the flooding in Philly’s low-lying areas is forcing property owners to make difficult choices - even abandon their buildings. My column looks at a church that reuseda historic mill by balancing adaptation and preservation.

I don't know why people keep saying that western PA supplies all of Philadelphia's energy. This is what powers Philly.

ICE detains husband of Democratic congressional candidate—who is also a disabled U.S. Army veteran. He is wheelchair bound—after suffering severe injury during training for deployment in Iraq. Agents arrested him at his naturalization hearing—he is already green card holder who