#PhillyFive What We're Reading: April 20, 2015
What We're Reading: The Mutter Museum and Einstein's brain, North v. South Jersey, the strange case of Shaneen Allen.
Stories from the web that we're reading this morning. Something for everyone.
How Einstein's brain ended up at the Mütter Museum. Hint: It involves a New Jersey pathologist and what some would call "stealing," per Smithsonian.com.
This week in Kabletown news: Comcast and Time Warner Cable will meet with DOJ officials Wednesday to negotiate possible concessions in the behemoths' proposed merger, according to sources cited by The Wall Street Journal.
Settling Jersey's North-South debate. When it comes to where the boundaries fall, it seems like almost everyone has an opinion. NJ.com rounds them up for an interactive online map that lets readers see where their neighbors think they're from.
Flag of Democracy played its first show in 1982. More than 30 years later, the band is still very much alive, thanks to the passion of its members and fans. Citypaper profiles one of Philly's longest-running punk groups.
Strange bedfellows. When single mother Shaneen Allen was arrested in New Jersey for carrying a legally purchased handgun, she found her staunchest support among members of the political right. A postmortem of how it all went down, from Buzzfeed.
- Alex Wigglesworth