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City Life

How Will the War Hit Your Wallet?

With any geopolitical crisis come questions of if and how activities in far-off lands could hit us financially back here in Philadelphia. The long answer […]

City Life

The Redevelopment of the Old Family Court Building Is Dead

Listen to the audio edition here: “What’s happening with the old Family Court building?” It seemed like a simple enough question when a friend posed […]

Philadelphia Wedding

You Can (Finally!) Hold Your Wedding Reception at Longwood Gardens

With the showstopping makeover of Longwood Gardens — a $250 million expansion and renovation that debuted in November of 2024 — comes good news for […]

Philadelphia Wedding

Every Vendor You Can Meet at Philadelphia Wedding’s Bubbly Ball

If you’ve been looking for a way to kick off your wedding planning journey, this is it. Philadelphia Wedding’s Bubbly Ball event is set for […]

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Foobooz

Philly’s Next Big Export Is Itself

Listen to the audio edition here: Philly’s restaurant scene has never been hotter than it is right now. It has never been more marketable than […]

Foobooz

Delco Getting Wild North Philly All-Day Breakfast Joint in Wilson’s Secret Sauce Space

The talk of the town in Delco of late has not been the geopolitical mess we find ourselves in or AI taking over the world […]

Life & Style

Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner Just Released a Jewelry Collab With Catbird, and We’re Obsessed

Michelle Zauner — the Best of Philly-winning lead singer of Japanese Breakfast and author of Crying in H Mart — has added another creative outlet: […]

The Philadelphia Citizen

Ideas We Should Steal: Make Restaurant Reuse Easy

A Seattle program has encouraged both mom-and-pop eateries and behemoths like Starbucks to pare down their customer-facing waste. Could litter-burdened Philly do the same? Read […]

City Life

The Great Philly Mag Semiquincentennial Quiz: Part 2

Welcome to the second round of Philly Mag’s “America 250” celebration quiz! This month, we’re dialing in on the semi-obscure, somewhat murky, utterly unbidden earliest […]

Be Well Philly

Could These New Tiny Robots Cure Cancer?

Listen to the audio edition here: Inside a lab in the University of Pennsylvania’s Levine Hall are robots so tiny they can balance on a […]

City Life

The Most Quintessentially Philadelphia Sports Moments

When we were working on our list of the 25 Most Philly Athletes of All Time, we couldn’t help but get a little nostalgic for […]

City Life

The Best of the Rest: The Athletes Who Just Missed Our “Most Philly” List

By now you’ve hopefully checked out our 25 Most Philly Athletes of All Time list, which ran the gamut from Vince Papale to Smarty Jones […]

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City Life

Philadelphia Magazine Nominated for Two 2026 National Magazine Awards

Yesterday — for the sixth time in eight years! — Philadelphia was been named a finalist for the American Society of Magazine Editors’ National Magazine […]

City Life

There Was Only One Choice for Most Philly Athlete of All Time: Allen Iverson

Thug. Drug dealer. Ex-con. That’s what you heard, nearly three decades ago. Columnists and sports-talk yakkers let it be known that a bad actor had […]

City Life

The Philadelphia Flower Show, By the Numbers

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s annual event — the longest-running and largest of its kind in the country — runs February 28th through March 8th at […]