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How a Vicious Legal Battle Over a Wildflower Farm Tore This Bucolic Philly Suburb Apart

This much, at least, was not in dispute: The man wasn’t happy. On May 9, 2021 — Mother’s Day, as it happened — Bret Steidle, […]

City Life

If Patience Is a Virtue, What Is Our On-Demand World Teaching Our Children?

“Mom, can we look at backpacks, like you said?” It was the Fourth of July. Three weeks into summer break and eight weeks before fifth […]

Foobooz

Meet the Foragers Changing the Way Philly Eats

As soon as Philip Manganaro gets out of his pickup truck, he starts rummaging through the bushes lining a gravel lot in Medford. Within a […]

City Life

New Voices: How Philly Became a Great Place for Women in Sports Journalism

There are some glamorous moments in the life of a television personality. This, however, is not one of them. It’s one of those Sundays in […]

City Life

Jeff Yass’s Big School Choice Gamble

Jeff Yass surprises me. He wants to talk. It’s something he almost never does, not to the press, anyway. He’s been declared the richest man […]

City Life

Smutty Fantasy Novels Are Taking Over Mom Book Clubs

I’ve messed up. I’d always wanted to be part of a book club, but now I’d finally been asked to be in one and I’ve […]

City Life

St. Joe’s Prep Dominates Pennsylvania Football. When Does Everyone Else Get a Shot?

There is only one student working out in St. Joseph’s Prep’s nearly 4,000-square-foot weight room on a late-May afternoon. It’s not that the school’s athletes […]

City Life

The Inside Story of the University of the Arts’s Stunning Collapse

The University of the Arts occupies — or, more accurately, occupied — a series of grand old buildings along South Broad Street. Terra Hall, a […]

City Life

Anthony Roth Costanzo Is Here to Save Opera in Philly

“Of course, entering fully naked in Akhnaten was very nerve-racking,” says Anthony Roth Costanzo when I ask about his most terrifying performance moment. As one […]

Foobooz

How I Discovered Philly’s Most Successful Cookbook Author Doesn’t Actually Exist

It’s Tuesday afternoon, close to the start of service, and I’m texting with Joe Cicala, chef of Cicala at the Divine Lorraine and someone who […]

City Life

Meet the Man Who’s Making Philly’s Waterfront … Cool?

For the past 60 years, Penn’s Landing has been a place where big plans go to die. In the early 1960s, the City of Philadelphia […]

City Life

Is Philly Going to Decide the 2024 Election?

“There are only four or five days in my life that I can remember where I was when something happened,” says political operative Kellan White. […]

Foobooz

How Philadelphia Became Obsessed With Twisted Tea

Andrew Payne knew his first leg tattoo would need to be special. His left arm and shoulder were already filled by the city skyline, with […]

City Life

Philadelphia Lost More Than 50,000 Residents During the Pandemic. Now What?

Since the dawn of the current millennium, city boosters have celebrated the reversal of Philadelphia’s five-decade-long population slide. The 2010 census showed the city had […]

City Life

I Wasn’t Ready For My Parent’s Dating Drama

I knew what was going on months before anyone else did. My father-in-law had been acting shifty, shooting up to New York for days at […]