Need something new for your reading list? This week, we recommend checking out The Dorians, a novel by Nick Cutter, and Lorenzo De Felici's comic series, Red Roots. It should become clear pretty ...

As bass lines and crowds filled Fairmount Park for Roots Picnic Weekend, another movement took shape across the city: a push to put books in people’s hands and reading at the center of culture.

A recently patched Linux privilege escalation vulnerability now has a publicly available proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that allows local attackers to gain root privileges on Arch Linux systems. The ...

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Nearly half the manmade objects orbiting Earth are chunks of “uncontrollable” space junk — with just three countries fueling the problem and endangering future space travel, a shocking new study found ...

Brandy just reminded Philadelphia that she is exactly who she says she is. The R&B icon hit the Roots Picnic stage and had the crowd singing, the internet gagging, and all of us trying to figure out ...

Jay-Z sent fans into a frenzy over the weekend—and not just because of his highly anticipated 2026 Roots Picnic performance. The rap icon stepped onto the stage, debuting a voluminous afro, a dramatic ...

Superintendent Jon Rysewyk is putting the novel "Roots" back on Knox County Schools shelves, according to a memo shared with Knox News. The district was under immense pressure to reverse its ban on ...

Another year, another Roots Picnic on the books. This year, the legendary Roots crew staged the almost decades-old festival at Philadelphia’s Belmont Plateau, assembling a lineup that offered the best ...

Here’s one of the more unsettling schemes to recently emerge from Silicon Valley: human clones grown without a conscious brain. At least one biotech start-up reportedly has quixotic ambitions of ...

Some of Pennsylvania’s finest performers will ring in America’s 250th birthday in the vicinity of the Liberty Bell this summer as part of an event dubbed One Philly: Unity Concert for America.

Bo Roberts, who knew Alex Haley personally, expresses shock at the decision to ban "Roots" in a county the author loved. The ban was reportedly based on a state law regarding age-appropriate material, ...