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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 […]

Restaurants

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 […]

Philadelphia magazine long reads
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 […]

Philadelphia Wedding

Fishtown Bridal Designer Madison Chamberlain’s Wedding Reception Was a Hot Pink Fever Dream

For many, the idea of popping out of a six-foot-tall wedding cake at your reception wearing a hot-pink veil covered in tiny Barbie shoes would […]

Restaurants

Philip Korshak on the Revolutionary Act of Picnicking

Listen to the audio edition here: “It took me until, I dunno, May to get out of Philly …” On the phone, Philip Korshak — […]

City Life

Mahjong Mania: Why the Age-Old Game Has Taken Over Philly

Listen to the audio edition: Around a small, square table, four sets of hands move quickly — sorting, swiping, racking, and discarding the stylized game […]

City Life

Why Mo’ne Davis Is One of the Most Philly Athletes of All Time

Mo’ne Davis celebrated her 13th birthday six weeks before the 2014 Little League World Series, in which she became the first girl in series history […]