Philly's Nick Elmi wins 'Top Chef,' chooses neighborhood charm over Center City
With $125,000 and a shiny new title, Nick Elmi chose Passyunk Square for his new restaurant Laurel, a cozy BYOB.
Shaving bucks off your ride: Lyft's pink mustache cars roll into Pittsburgh
Lyft, an app-based ridesharing program popular in several U.S. cities, has come to Pittsburgh, providing competition for other forms of transportation and deals for residents looking for a ride.
5 for 5: Meet Pennsylvania's Faces of STEM
Despite a plethora of top-flight educational institutions and innovative companies, there is still a shortage of PA workers skilled in science, technology, engineering and math. Keystone Edge interviewed some of the fields' key thinkers.
Founder Profile: Dean Helfer Jr. of Channel Craft
This entrepreneur started with boomerangs before moving on to classic American toys such as jacks, pick-up sticks and yo-yos.
The battle for the future of Washington Avenue West in South Philadelphia
City planners, residents and local businesses all claim to share a vision for this promising thoroughfare -- so why is change so slow?
Bigger and better Pittsburgh Public Market reopens
Pittsburgh significantly upped its creative city cred last week with the official re-opening of the Pittsburgh Public Market.
CMU seniors launch Fabricate.IO with an array of inventions and ingenuity
Two Carnegie Mellon seniors have created Fabricate.IO Invention Studio. It's part start-up, part business incubator, part co-working space, part hackathon and all imagination.
Eleven early-stage companies win funding from BFTP/SEP
Eleven early-stage companies just received more than $2 million in funding from Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (BFTP/SEP).?
Berwyn's Prepay Nation grows fast thanks to international micropayments
Berwyn's Prepay Nation is experiencing phenomenal growth thanks to its ingenious idea for enabling micropayments across international borders in the form of mobile airtime.
PA's Quaker DNA continues to impact Philadelphia in ways big and small
Whether you're talking about schools, getting married or engaging with architecture, Quaker traditions endure. Now a new generation of leaders is bringing the doctrines into a modern era through community engagement and digital media.