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Jersey Shore Town Reaches “Capacity,” Mayor Says No More People

It has been a busy summer in Belmar, New Jersey, already, and it’s not even summer yet. Late in May, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie […]

Property

32-Story Tower on Chestnut Street Inches Forward, Mural “Won’t Be Touched”

It looks as though the 700 block of Chestnut Street is about to swap a longtime surface parking lot owned by the Parkway Corporation for a […]

City Life

Sixers Draftland: Does Joel Embiid’s Setback Change Sixers’ Draft Plans?

Basketball writer Derek Bodner is covering the NBA draft for Philadelphia magazine at Sixers Draftland.  Saturday night’s news, which was first reported by Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo […]

City Life

Welcome to Sixers Draftland

The NBA draft has the chance to be a franchise-altering moment for any team. Never is this truth driven home more than during the NBA […]

Restaurants

Vendy and Burger Brawl Winners

This week saw two big food competitions go down in Philadelphia. On Saturday, Philadelphia’s food truck scene was saluted with the Vendy Awards. The “Oscars […]

Restaurants

Happier Hour(s) At Abe Fisher This Summer

Starting today, happy hour at Abe Fisher is getting even happier. How, you ask? First, by extending an extra hour and running from 5pm ’til […]

City Life

Archdiocese Announces Three Churches to Close

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia over the weekend announced the closure of three churches in the area:

Citified

The Brief: 130-Year-Old Water Main Bursts in West Philly, Eats Cars

1. A water main ruptured in West Philly, wrecking homes and swallowing up cars. The gist: As you can imagine, the water main break on Sunday in West Philadelphia […]

Business

BizFeed: Whole Foods Battling Organic Farmers

Whole Foods in Organic Food Fight The News: The farmers that supply Whole Foods have some serious issues with the supermarket chain’s new produce rating system. It […]

City Life

Why The Latest Liquor Privatization Bill Might Actually Pass

Yes, we’ve heard a million times before that the Pennsylvania Legislature is mulling a liquor privatization bill. A million times before, it’s gone nowhere. So […]

Property

Headlines: City Snags Nearly $2 Million from Property Auction

Well, they didn’t sell all of the 157 blighted properties at the last week’s auction organized by Councilman Mark Squilla, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a success. […]

City Life

Chickens! Chickens Everywhere!

Robert Drake is not usually one to complain. The affable WXPN producer and on-air personality — and part-time weather forecaster — is generally a pretty happy guy and […]

City Life

Relax, Everyone: Millennials Are Getting Laid Plenty

Two studies came out recently showing that — surprise! — millennials get laid less than their parents did. My Baby Boomer colleague Sandy Hingston wrote that as soon as […]

Restaurants

Of Vinyl, Ramps and Stinging Nettle: Helm Reviewed

You knew this was coming. In Philadelphia, where chefs are constantly popping up in one another’s kitchens or dueling each other at Cook, it was […]

City Life

The Best Thing That Happened This Week