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City Life

Best Thing This Week: The Navy Yard Got Legs

We’ll take this type of many-tentacled public art over that hack Jacques Lipchitz any day.

City Life

Best Thing This Week: Ed Rendell’s New Gig

Our ex-mayor is lending some heft to the safe-injection-site movement.

City Life

Best Thing This Week: The Flyers’ Funky New Friend

Did you know “mascot” comes from the Occitan word for “witch”?

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City Life

What the NJ Transit Shaver Can Teach Us About the Brett Kavanaugh Accusations

A rush to judgment rarely results in the right judgment.

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Restaurants

That Time John Kerry Ordered a Cheesesteak “With Swiss”

And more great moments in cheesesteak history.

City Life

Best Thing This Week: He’s Baaack!

Son, take us to the mountain again.

City Life

Best Thing This Week: A Very Wet Vacation

We’d like to say nothing could dampen our spirits, but …

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City Life

Can We All Agree Now That College Rankings Are Bunk?

The fallout from the Temple business school scandal.

City Life

Best Thing This Week: The Return of Nick Foles

Philly Philly: A love poem

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City Life

Why Everybody in Philly Can Agree On the Eagles

We get into our share of fights over things big and small, but we’d no more miss the chance to sit down with each other to watch the Birds than forgo an opportunity to watch a replay of the Philly Special … again.

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City Life

Meet the Father/Son Duo Who Pulled Off the Eagles Super Bowl Parade

How to plan the city’s best bash ever — in just a few weeks.

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City Life

8 Philadelphians Share Their (Incredibly Bizarre) Eagles Game-Day Rituals

Whatever your recipe for the team’s success, somebody else’s is weirder. We know. We asked.

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City Life

10 Stats That Show How Much We Love the Eagles

Our maniacal fandom, by the numbers.

City Life

Teacher/Wrestling Pro Hangs Up Nazi Singlet

“This character no longer exists, nor will he reappear.”

City Life

Best Thing This Week: Setting Free the Bears

And the zebras, and the giraffes, and the elephants …