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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 […]

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 […]

Foobooz

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 […]

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City Life

Charles Barkley’s Philadelphia Black History Month All-Stars: Part 4

Philadelphia’s Black history is vast, visionary … and too often reduced to a handful of familiar names. So, a few years ago, The Philadelphia Citizen […]

Property

Real Estate 2026: The State of the Market

There was a moment four years ago — April of 2022 — when the housing market took a nosedive, and then it proceeded to trend […]

City Life

How to Save Market East (For Real This Time)

The stretch of Market Street that runs from City Hall down through our nation’s historic founding blocks and ends at the Delaware River has been […]

Philadelphia Wedding

Just Wait Till You See the Gorgeous Floral Installation at This Bucks County Wedding

On the morning of their wedding, Danielle Toy and Scott Shields woke to the threat of rain. This was a problem, because they’d planned on […]

Foobooz

Can Sheetz Dethrone Wawa on Its Own Turf?

Listen to the audio edition here: The helicopters were out last Thursday morning, circling overhead, and on the ground news crews had assembled, clogging the […]

Life & Style

A Custom Chaise and Dramatic Colors Define This East Passyunk Home Office

Back in 2022, a couple hired Design Manifest to refresh the first floor of their 1920s brownstone in East Passyunk. Fast-forward a few years, and […]

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Foobooz

Why Philly’s Biggest Whiskey Collector Is Finally Pouring His Private Stash

Listen to the audio edition here: Lê calls me late on a Monday. Sometime around dinner. He just woke up. “So you know I’ve been […]