Barry Lank

About Barry Lank

Like most people, Barry Lank was editor of the Courier-Post opinion page in Cherry Hill. He currently also writes for The Final Edition. Police say he's calling from inside your house. Get out now!

Stained glass from Germantown teens arrives at Drexel University

Since 2006, teenagers and artist volunteers have been meeting at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown and putting together stained glass windows.

For Arbor Day, stay inside and look at Philadelphia’s tree map

Yes, for the hundredth time, Arbor Day is an actual thing. But more importantly, the Philly Tree Map gives an interactive map of trees all over town.

A beer tap at my own table in Philadelphia? … Where the hell is my waitress?!

New beer taps work like self-service gas pumps. You give the server a credit card, and she opens the table. Two beers later, you decide whether to open the table again.

Seven new historical markers for Philadelphia – seven stories from the past

A starlet’s home, America’s first Bible Society, a 300-year-old bridge that cars still use, and an early Jewish basketball team that now survives in a surprising form.

$5 a day is too much for food in Philadelphia, right? Then hooray for government cuts!

In an age of tax cuts and budget battles, we should show everyone how easy it is to live on five bucks a day in the low-budget, low-maintenance hollow of Philadelphia.

Start growing giant mustache for Doylestown mustache contest

Grow one of those massive lip-rugs that guys in old photographs used to wear with deadly serious expressions – waxed handlebar winglets, or droopy, unwaxed soup-strainers,

Laurel Hill Cemetery offers ‘Earth Day’ event, laughs creepily

They’re calling it “Nature in the Necropolis: Celebrating Earth Day Amid the Earth-Bound.” Tasteful. Plus, they say they’ll have pastries! And juice!

State says, ‘Stop calling here about your abandoned pigs!’

Not only can this pig rescue group not call Philadelphia for money. They can’t even let you adopt one of their abandoned pigs. City law won’t let you keep one.

You can watch the price of electricity go up and down in real time

A new Electricity Price Ticker tracks the real time wholesale electricity price for the PECO area. You can waste a lot of power learning how much power you’re wasting.

Someone called for help on the Internet – how did Philadelphia respond?

On Reddit: “Was talking to my bf in Philadelphia (I am in Cleveland OH) when he suddenly started breathing heavily and had trouble speaking and I think he passed out…”