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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The Sounds of Summer. Sort of.

Sure, this long stretch of enforced isolation has been hard. But you know what’s made it even harder? The dead silence in our backyard. For […]

City Life

Political Scientist Daniel Q. Gillion on What Makes Protest Movements Effective

How does a protest movement translate demands into political action? This is a relevant question for the millions of Americans who have spent the past […]

City Life

The Pandemic Canceled Michael Smerconish’s Tour, So He Recorded His One-Man Show in an Empty Bucks County Theater

Michael Smerconish, the Villanova-based political commentator with two eponymous programs — weekly on CNN and daily on SiriusXM — was all set to go on […]

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City Life

Philly Health Officials Shut Down Two Restaurants After Citing Them for COVID Violations

A roundup of Philly news. This article may be updated at any time as new information becomes available. Health Officials Shut Down Two Philly Restaurants […]

The crowd at the Philadelphia edition of Live Aid at JFK Stadium on July 13, 1985
City Life

Live Aid in Philly: An Oral History of that Crazy Day at JFK

It was July 13, 1985. Two months earlier, Philadelphia had made international news when it dropped a bomb on its own citizens. But on this […]

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Restaurants

Vernick’s Doing Pizza

Of course Vernick is getting into the pizza game. This is 2020 Philadelphia, baby! A pizza-loving, pandemic-ridden city filled with takeout and full-scale restaurant pivots. […]

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City Life

National Coin Crisis Comes to Your Neighborhood Wawa

A roundup of Philly news. National Coin Shortage Hits Wawa Of all of the consequences of COVID-19, I have to say that one I didn’t […]

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Philadelphia Wedding

This Horticulture Center Wedding Combined Indian and Chinese Traditions

  Summer temps are warming up here in Philly, and if you’re like us, you’re savoring every moment you can outdoors, savoring nature and even […]

Restaurants

Juno, an Open-Air Mexican Restaurant by the Morgan’s Pier Crew, Arrives in Spring Garden

It’s extraordinary to see any business open during a pandemic. The fact that Avram Hornik and his FCM Hospitality team (Morgan’s Pier, Harper’s Garden, Rosy’s […]

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Property

On the Market: Historic Shingle Style House in Wayne

Before there was Wayne, there was “Louella.” That was the name of the huge 293-acre estate and 80-room mansion banker J.H. Askin built for himself […]

NextHealth PHL

How Can the City Protect Residents From Extreme Heat Amid COVID? Philly Health Experts Have Ideas

Excessive heat exposure is a serious public health challenge. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), more people die from heat each year than […]

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City Life

Authors Cancel Appearances at the Free Library in Solidarity With Black Workers There

A roundup of Philly news. This post may be updated at any time as new information becomes available. The Philadelphia Free Library Has a Big […]

Restaurants

Another Parks on Tap, But on the Schuylkill

Parks on Tap is doing things a little differently this year. Instead of the traveling carnival model of pre-COVID yesteryear, FCM Hospitality’s Avram Hornik decided […]

Restaurants

Northern Liberties Is Closing Its Streets for Outdoor Dining

On Saturday, July 11th, from noon until 8 p.m., a half-mile of Northern Liberties’ North 2nd Street will be closed to traffic to allow neighborhood […]

City Life

West Philly’s Rick Krajewski on Running for Office, Defunding the PPD and the National Leftist Uprising

West Philly’s Rick Krajewski has never been much for the status quo. Raised by a working-class single mother in the South Bronx, he’s used his […]