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City Life

A Night in the Life of the Night Mayor

It’s 12:30 a.m. on what’s just become a Friday in August, and I’m out and about with the Night Mayor. We’re on West Girard at […]

Foobooz

Secrets to the Perfect Hoagie Roll

As I’ve come to understand it, the English language has few redeemable qualities. It’s difficult to learn, and it’s full of stupid rules and punctuation […]

Be Well Philly

Life Unfiltered: Why I Opened Up About My Cancer Scare on Social Media

“I’m tired of hiding,” I say aloud to nobody. I’m alone on a travel assignment, scrolling Instagram in my room and thinking about how frustrating […]

City Life

After Last Year’s Labor Battle, Will the Art Museum Come Back Stronger?

It was time to say goodbye to another departing Philadelphia Museum of Art colleague. A small group had gathered for happy-hour drinks at the Bishop’s […]

City Life

What It’s Like to Send Your Kid to Main Line Etiquette Class

It was a gorgeous fall day in Philadelphia — crisp and clear, the sort of day that puts you in a great mood. Only I […]

City Life

Why I Left My City Life to Try Remote Work in the Wilds of Pennsylvania

It’s only late September, but it’s the kind of night that belongs more to early winter than to fall. I wasn’t prepared for it, and […]

City Life

New Superintendent Tony Watlington Is Here to Transform Philly Schools

Tony Watlington wasn’t naive. He knew about the challenges. “The issues with facilities, asbestos, clean water — none of those surprised me,” he says. These […]

Foobooz

Meet the Philly Food Scientists Who Can Make a Potato Chip Taste Like a Cheesesteak

Another autumn, another snack-time promotion: In November, venerable Herr’s, headquartered in Chester County’s Nottingham, announced a new potato-chip flavor contest, with $15,000 in prizes at […]

Be Well Philly

This Body-Image Approach Can Help Reframe the Way You Talk and Think About Yourself

This past July, pop singer Jax orchestrated a flash mob in front of a Los Angeles Victoria’s Secret store, set to her body-liberation anthem “Victoria’s […]

City Life

The Acute Grief of a Friend Breakup

If I remember correctly, my first breakup was with a kid named Anthony sometime in the seventh grade. I’ve forgotten the specifics, but I think […]

City Life

The Drama Around Turning the John Coltrane House Into a Philly Jazz Monument

Sixty-four years ago, in a charming 19th- century rowhome in the southernmost corner of Strawberry Mansion, there lived a giant. John Coltrane was a few […]

City Life

Inside David Adelman’s Controversial Plan to Bring the Sixers to Center City

On a Monday afternoon in October, David Adelman stands at the corner of 11th and Market streets, imagining an alternate universe. He points across the […]

City Life

Angelo Cataldi’s Long Farewell

It’s a friend of mine — let’s call him Billy from Broomall — who captures something important about the arc of Angelo Cataldi’s long run […]

City Life

When the Ocean Met the Bay: 10 Years Later, an Oral History of Superstorm Sandy

Two weeks before it became the costliest, most destructive storm ever to hit the northeastern coast of the United States, Sandy was just a nameless […]

City Life

How the Always-Smiling, Always-Practicing Tyrese Maxey Became the “Absolute Key” for the Sixers

Tyrese Maxey has just thrown a basketball at Spencer Rivers. It’s a playful throw, but a throw all the same, and the ball caroms off […]