Longform
Provenance Is Philly’s Most Ambitious Restaurant — If It Can Survive
Editor’s note: This story was published in the December 2024/January 2025 issue. On November 18, 2025, Provenance earned a Michelin star. In the kitchen at […]
Can John Fry Revive Temple?
“I’m not a real estate person,” John Fry says 10 minutes into a winding tour of Drexel’s campus on an overcast afternoon in late September. […]
How One Philadelphia Prison Could Change Incarceration in America
Inside the imposing beige walls of the state correctional institution in Chester, there is a fish tank whose inhabitants are part of something bigger than […]
I’m Sending My Kid to CCD Because I’m Scared of My Mom
It’s a hot day in the middle of July, 100 degrees, the sort of heat that makes the air feel heavy, and I’m standing with […]
The New Face of New Hope: How a Small Bucks County Town Became a Playground for the Rich and Famous
One evening, as I drove down Main Street in New Hope, I passed three high-end restaurants, two boutique hotels, a Chelsea Market-style suite of trendy […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]