Michael Tanenbaum
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.
December 8, 2017
Restaurants
'Dining on a Dime' visits El Compadre for giant shrimp tacos
Six months after Christina Martinez and Ben Miller relocated their acclaimed South Philly Barbacoa to the storefront of El Compadre, business is booming just as Miller had predicted.December 8, 2017
Arrests
Philadelphia man arrested in fatal hit-and-run on Bucks County teen
Authorities in Lower Southampton Township have arrested a Philadelphia man in connection with the hit-and-run incident that killed a teenage girl and seriously injured her boyfriend late last month.December 7, 2017
Public Health
Pennsylvania Sheetz store installs blue lights in bathroom to ward off drug use
A Sheetz convenience store in Westmoreland County installed blue overhead lights in the restrooms of one of its stores. The theory is that the blue glow makes it difficult for drug user to locate a vein for injection.December 7, 2017
Space
WATCH: Exploding meteor captured by New Jersey police dashcam
Among the advantages of a world festooned with cameras practically everywhere, the one bonus that doesn't get enough play in debates about our surveillance society is the capacity we have to better document things randomly exploding in the sky.December 7, 2017
Media
Former NBC10 anchor goes viral for calling out woman's racist email on air
Television viewers in Atlanta were in for an unexpected twist to their newscast Wednesday night when anchor Sharon Reed, a familiar media personality in Philadelphia, unleashed on a woman who sent her a racist email in reference to her coverage of the city's mayoral election.December 7, 2017
Investigation
N.J. orders shutdown of club that inspired 'The Sopranos' Bada Bing
The owners of a gentleman's club made famous by the hit HBO series "The Sopranos" have been ordered to cease providing live entertainment at two venues accused of multiple violations, the New Jersey Attorney General's office announced on Thursday.December 6, 2017
Agriculture
Pennsylvania plans vast expansion of industrial hemp research in 2018
Two years after the reintroduction of hemp as an industrial crop, Pennsylvania is planning a major expansion of research opportunities for growers across the state in 2018.December 6, 2017
NFL
WATCH: Former Eagle Connor Barwin announces he's going to be a dad
As the Eagles try to rebound against the L.A. Rams on Sunday, they'll be reuniting with a former teammate who remains a big part of the Philadelphia community.December 6, 2017
PennDOT
PennDOT looking to hire hundreds of drivers ahead of 2018 winter
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced this week it will look to hire hundreds of temporary workers statewide as part of its winter maintenance program.December 6, 2017
Medicine
CHOP finds brain remaps in child who received double hand transplant
Two-and-a-half years after Zion Harvey became the world's first child to receive a bilateral hand transplant, researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have found that the boy's brain dramatically remapped itself to respond to his newfound dexterity.Just In
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