Michael Tanenbaum

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Michael Tanenbaum is a senior staff writer for PhillyVoice.com, with interests ranging from technology and behavioral health to local community initiatives and cultural life. Michael has written for the Argentina Independent and Bespoke Magazine and previously served as a news editor for Xfinity.com before joining PhillyVoice. He received his B.A. in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.


tanenbaum@phillyvoice.com

April 27, 2018

Television

Jimmy Fallon, Kevin Bacon sing multinational cover of 'American Woman'

On "First Drafts of Rock," "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon and actor Kevin Bacon cover "American Woman" by The Guess Who.

April 26, 2018

Media

Michael Barkann gets new role at NBC Sports Philadelphia

The longtime face of "Philly Sports Talk," formerly "Daily News Live," will soon begin anchoring all of the pre- and post-game shows on the new-look NBC Sports Philadelphia.

April 26, 2018

City Council

City councilwoman calls on Comcast Spectacor to rename Wells Fargo Center

In the wake of last week's $1 billion fine levied against Wells Fargo by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a Philadelphia city councilwoman is calling on Comcast Spectacor to rename the Wells Fargo Center in response to the bank's unethical practices.

April 26, 2018

Development

Apartments could replace animal shelter, vet, Doggie Style in Northern Liberties

Developers have submitted a plan to tear down the Saved Me animal rescue, Doggie Style pet store and Pet Mechanic veterinary office located along N. 3rd Street in Northern Liberties.

April 26, 2018

Collectibles

Oregon man stumbles on $150,000 Ben Simmons Sixers rookie card

Made of 14-karat gold, Ben Simmons 2016-2017 Sixers rookie card could be worth $150,000 or more.

April 25, 2018

Investigation

Police: Two teens stabbed at SEPTA's 8th Street Station

Philadelphia police are searching for a suspect after two teenagers were stabbed Wednesday afternoon at SEPTA's 8th Street Station on the Market-Frankford Line.

April 25, 2018

Development

D.C. architects want to build a timber skyscraper in Philadelphia

With increasing urgency to adopt more sustainable approaches to urban development, one Washington, D.C. architecture firm wants our city to become a trailblazer in the future of high-rise construction.

April 25, 2018

Homicide

Man charged in deadly South Jersey road rage stabbing

Authorities in Gloucester County filed charges Wednesday in last month's fatal road rage stabbing of a father whose car was stalled out in a snowstorm.

April 25, 2018

Politics

Eagles' Chris Long calls out boycott of Kanye West over Trump support

Mercurial hip-hop star Kanye West burst out of his extended absence from the public eye last week with a series of pseudo-philosophical tweets he described as some kind of "book."

April 24, 2018

NBA

Allen Iverson confronts Stephen A. Smith on the Process: 'I told you'

During the leanest years of the Sixers' multi-year tanking project, popularly sanitized as the Process, one of the team's harshest critics was ESPN analyst and former Philadelphia beat writer Stephen A. Smith.

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