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City Life

40 Urban Gardening Ideas for Your Philly Back Yard

Plant some new roots.

City Life

The Great Philly Mag Semiquincentennial Quiz: Part 3

Test your Philly history knowledge. This month: William Penn and the Quakers!

City Life

The Great Philly Mag Semiquincentennial Quiz: Part 2

This month: The semi-obscure, somewhat murky, earliest excursions of Europeans.

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City Life

The 25 Most Philly Athletes of All Time

Our definitive ranking — let the debates begin.

City Life

The Great Philly Mag Semiquincentennial Quiz

Introducing our monthly Semiquincentennial Quiz. First up, the Lenni Lenape Era.

City Life

The Best Part of Aging: Giving Up

And I’ve never felt happier.

City Life

Make America Kind Again

Quiet acts of kindness suggest a growing civility, one small moment at a time.

Things to Do

20 Philly-Area Gardens and Arboretums to Visit

Catch spring’s beautiful blooms at these Philadelphia-area gardens and arboretums.

City Life

How the Pandemic Rewired My Sense of Place and Time

Years after lockdown, the world looks familiar — and yet completely changed.

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City Life

Six Historic Cemeteries Around Philadelphia

They’re grassy, shady, pretty — and lots of famous people are buried in them.

Foobooz

The 2024 Guide to Dining Down the Shore

From LBI to Cape May, our picks for this season’s can’t-miss bites

Foobooz

30 Essential Eats Down the Shore

Everything tastes better at the beach.

City Life

I Don’t Know Who Anybody Is Anymore. And I Don’t Care

In Sandy Hingston’s final (?) column, she bids farewell as only she can.

City Life

The Sixers Are Back

The big guy set a personal-best playoff record with 50 points in a huge Sixers win over the Knicks last night.

Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day
City Life

Punxsutawney Phil Is Hiding a Weird, Dark Secret

Revelations of groundhog progeny lead to questions about the strange misogyny within the mythology.