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Just Listed: Contemporary Traditional House in Bryn Mawr

Take a good, long look at the photo above. Looks like you’re about to enter one of those striking contemporary houses that dot the Main […]

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Just Listed: Courtyard Trinity in Queen Village

As you walk the streets of a number of Greater Center City neighborhoods, you will notice openings between the townhouses. The narrower ones are usually […]

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Be Well Philly

Meet the Philly Start-Up That Will Recycle (Almost) All of Your Junk

Spring cleaning just got a lot greener thanks to a Philly-based company that promises to recycle almost anything in your home — from scrub brushes […]

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City Life

Dolly Parton Will Send Free Books to up to 2,000 Philly Kids Each Month

Dolly Parton is having a moment. A rather extended one, in fact. More than 54 years after she released her first album, the music icon […]

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NextHealth PHL

NextUp: The Philly Company Creating a Life-Saving Device for Adrenal Crisis

“NextUp” is a weekly NextHealth PHL feature that highlights the local leaders, organizations and research shaping the Greater Philadelphia region’s life sciences ecosystem. Email ccunningham@phillymag.com […]

City Life

Inspector General: City Failed to Properly Vet Philly Fighting COVID

In the aftermath of the Philly Fighting COVID vaccine-clinic scandal, there was one main question on everyone’s mind: How the hell did this happen? Health […]

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City Life

William Penn Only Spent Four Years In Pennsylvania, And Other Strange Founder Facts

This month marked the 340th anniversary of a rather momentous occasion for Philadelphia. March 4, 1681, was when King Charles II of England granted one […]

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Just Listed: Subdivided Frank Furness-Designed Mansion in Fitler Square

Want to live in a gorgeous Frank Furness-designed house, but don’t want to live in this one in Fishtown? The good news: You now have […]

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Philadelphia Wedding

We Got Vaccinated on Our 31st Wedding Anniversary

On February 24th, 1990, Suzanne, now 59, and Karl (a.k.a. Kip) Salus, 66, were married at St. John’s Catholic Church in Elkins Park. It was […]

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Just Listed in the Poconos: Rustic Reproduction in Canadensis

While you will find, and we have featured, some fabulous houses that have survived for decades, even a century or more, in the Pocono Mountains, […]

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NextHealth PHL

Excision BioTherapeutics Has Secured $60M to Proceed with HIV Clinical Trial

Forty years after the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States, approximately 1.2 million Americans live with diagnosed HIV — 19,000 of whom are […]

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On the QT: Frank Furness-Designed Townhouse in Fishtown

Who says that corruption produces no benefit? If it weren’t for an estate administrator who got elected to the Philadelphia Common Council, then got convicted […]

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Just Listed: Carson Wentz’s Rural Retreat in Woodstown

We’re sure you’ve already gotten rid of your collection of Carson Wentz jerseys. And we hope that before you got rid of them, you chipped […]

Restaurants

The Mushroom Cheesesteak, All Grown Up

First and foremost, I want to be clear about something: The cheesesteak needs no updating. No new renditions; no twists. It’s perfect the way it […]

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City Life

That Movie About an Upper Darby Bar Is Actually Getting Released This Month

When we first heard that a Main Line real estate developer was making a movie about life in Delco, we weren’t exactly holding our breath […]