🏀 Say goodbye to the Wells Fargo Center, sort of

🛜 Catch Your Next Concert at … the Xfinity Mobile Arena?

The next time you head to the Wells Fargo Center for a Flyers or Sixers game, they’ll be playing in the same building but under a new name. Comcast’s Xfinity Mobile acquired the naming rights for the event venue beginning in September until 2031. Frankly, just go back to calling it Spectrum II. Or, even though First Union doesn’t exist anymore, call it the FU Center again based on the hilariously unfortunate but apt nickname. [🔒 Philadelphia Business Journal]

❤️‍🩹 On-Ground Victim in Northeast Philly Plane Crash Dies From Injuries

Months after the tragic medical jet crash in Northeast Philadelphia, Dominique Goods-Burke succumbed to her injuries. Goods-Burke was in a vehicle with her family within the blast radius of the crash. She was in a medically-induced coma until she died on April 27. [🎧 City Cast Philly, FOX29]

🎶 Meet Me at the Eagle in 2026?

We said our goodbyes to Macy’s with a grand organ concert in its main court in March, leaving the historic Wanamaker building by City Hall potentially vacant when visitors flock to the city for the Semiquincentennial. Could this then be an opportunity to use the space as a concert hall? Councilmember Mark Squilla’s down to use the building for 250th anniversary celebrations, but that’s depending on what plans event organizers and the building’s owners have in mind. [Broad Street Review]

🎆 Party on the Parkway With Jazmine Sullivan

We’ve been talking a lot about Independence Day plans for 2026, but what about this year? Wawa Welcome America announced that Philadelphia native Jazmine Sullivan and rapper LL Cool J will be headlining this summer's Fourth of July celebration. [CBS Philly]

Pat Dugan is looking to be Philadelphia’s new district attorney. Having served as a municipal court judge for 17 years, Dugan said he didn’t necessarily join this race because he wanted to, but because: “I just feel somebody has to step up. We have to bring common sense back to the district attorney's office.”

As the May 20 Democratic primary approaches, Dugan visited City Cast Philly to make his case on why Philly’s public safety problems mean he should take over as the city's top prosecutor. (There are no Republican candidates running, so the winner of the Democratic primary will effectively win the race.).

Dugan criticized his opponent’s approach to illegal dumping, gun violence, and retail theft prosecution; extolled his own leadership capabilities based on his time as judge; and sought to set the record straight on being a no-show at a debate.

Here’s a preview of City Cast Philly host Trenae Nuri’s conversation with Dugan:

You often speak about how Philadelphians don't feel safer, but the numbers show that we are safer. Is it the district attorney's job to make sure Philly feels safer?

“ I think it's part of it. I really do…one of the questions I ask people when I go to these community meetings and when I'm walking the street is, 'Do you feel safer?' And I ask them, 'Do you let your children go to the playground by themselves? Do you let them go to the corner store?' If you're not letting your kids go to the store or go to the playground, you're not safer, you're not freer. And it's across the board. No matter what neighborhood I'm in, they're telling me that. They're also telling me that as victims, they’re not being communicated with…

“Do they feel safer if somebody comes in and puts a gun to their head, get robbed, but then that person doesn't hear about the court date because of miscommunication or mismanagement? I'm not sure what's going on, but too many people tell me that they never hear about what happened to their case …

“Even though the numbers look like they're safe, I don't believe people feel safe sitting on their steps when we have all these folks getting shot still … one is too many. So I do think the D.A. plays a part in how we feel out there, but they also have to know that the D.A. has the community's back, that they're gonna be taken care of when they're assaulted and not forgotten.”