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.
March 12, 2016
CHOP
CHOP finds PTSD common among adults with congenital heart disease
Researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have found that adults living with congenital heart disease face an elevated risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder relative to the general population.March 12, 2016
Arrests
Woodbury man arrested in heroin distribution investigation
Authorities in Gloucester County announced the arrest of a Woodbury man this week following a three-month investigation into an alleged heroin distribution operation.March 12, 2016
Psychology
Drexel study: Insight yields better solutions than analytical approach
How to distinguish between impulse and insight when it comes to decision time can be a major challenge on a day-to-day basis in all walks of life. As a consumer, impulse often leads to misguided choices that a more cautious, cost-benefit analysis might help us avoid. To solve dilemmas and puzzles, however, it turns out that relying on spontaneous gut feelings is more likely to produce correct solutions than a methodically reasoned, analytical approach, according to a new study.March 11, 2016
Real Estate
Report: Philly 'hipsters' lead U.S. in profitable home flips
However we choose to define the amorphous social category of the hipster – whether it's a matter of nonconformity, fashion forwardness or convenient ridicule – most would agree that the term generally describes a subculture of the millennial population, for better or for worse. In Philadelphia, this demographic has shown the fastest rate of growth in the United States over the last ten years, and according to a new report, local millennials are also the best in the nation at profitably flipping residential real estate.March 11, 2016
Restaurants
The Igloo frozen yogurt shop coming to Fishtown
In the span of a single week, Philadelphia shifted from the wintertime blues to a full-fledged spring preview, hitting a record-high temperature on Wednesday that quickly set our collective sights on the balmy months ahead.March 11, 2016
Arrests
N.J. father of 'Adolf Hitler' surrenders to Pennsylvania police
A New Jersey fugitive who gained notoriety in 2008 over a birthday cake for his three-year-old son, Adolf Hitler, was arrested in Pennsylvania Thursday on charges of domestic violence.March 11, 2016
Development
FMC Tower, Philly's first vertical neighborhood, to open early in summer 2016
Philadelphia's first "vertical neighborhood" inside the rising FMC Tower in West Philadelphia will open this summer earlier than anticipated, according to developer Brandywine Realty Trust, which had originally projected a completion date in 2017.March 11, 2016
Arrests
Montco woman arrested in alleged murder of stepfather
Officials in Montgomery County announced the arrest of a 23-year-old Norristown woman who allegedly stabbed her stepfather to death in the borough's first homicide of 2016.March 11, 2016
Social Media
Study: Tweets during Hurricane Sandy accurately predicted storm damage
The emergence of social media as a real-time gauge of what's happening in the physical and digital world could increasingly prove to be valuable asset in predicting the extent of damage during catastrophic weather events, according to a new study that analyzed Twitter activity as Superstorm Sandy swept through New Jersey in 2012.March 11, 2016
MLB
Pete Rose, the bobblehead, gets premier Hall of Fame nod
Former Phillies and Reds legend Pete Rose, exiled from baseball for more than 25 years, will finally get his day in the Hall of Fame. It just won't be the one in Cooperstown, where Rose already has several artifacts but not the highly coveted plaques at the museum and at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati.Just In
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