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Top-Performing Public High Schools Methodolgy

To come up with a ranking of the top-performing city and suburban public high schools in the eight-county Philadelphia region, we first collected the latest […]

NextHealth PHL

Q&A: NeuroFlow and Genomind Team Up to Advance Mental Health Care

Genomind, a King of Prussia-based mental health company, and NeuroFlow, a Philadelphia-based health care analytics and technology company, recently announced an agreement to partner their […]

City Life

Wonder What the Eagles Offensive Line Looks Like Nude? It’s Your Lucky Day.

The offensive line of the Philadelphia Eagles is generally understood to be one of the team’s best assets. A bunch of algorithms and analytics could probably prove that […]

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City Life

Inside Candace Owens’ Misinformation Campaign

To understand what Candace Owens has become, consider the scene at the University of Pennsylvania one evening in April. The school’s College Republicans and conservative […]

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City Life

South Philly’s Ridiculously Out of Place Asterix Mural Is Being Demolished This Week

There are a lot of murals in Philadelphia. The city’s Mural Arts program has put up some 4,000 murals throughout the city during its 33-year […]

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Restaurants

Sneak Preview: October Classes at COOK

I don’t know what you guys are doing in October. Me? I’m hoping to go hang out with Nick Elmi and Aaron Gottesman at COOK. […]

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Restaurants

Beyoncé Ordered Another Philly Birthday Cake at Made in America

If you were anywhere near Instagram or the Parkway over Labor Day Weekend, you know that Beyoncé and her husband stopped by Made in America to show off […]

City Life

Women Ruled at This Year’s Made in America Festival

When Jay Z‘s Made in America festival floods the Benjamin Franklin Parkway every year, the city collectively wonders: Will Beyoncé make an appearance? This year, like […]

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Restaurants

Millennial-Owned Restaurants Are Changing the Way We Dine

In Philly, restaurant trends have their time and place. Take 2013, when every local bakery started serving its own version of the New York cronut. […]

Restaurants

Zagafen Opens With Kosher Pizza and Italian-Inspired Fare in Bala Cynwyd

Last winter, Foobooz reported a shakeup in Bala Cynwyd’s restaurant scene: Finance guy turned restaurateur David Magerman would be closing kosher restaurant Dairy Cafe and replacing […]

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City Life

Jump Into a Giant Marshmallow Pit at This Candy Pop-Up Exhibit

When Sir Thomas More published his book Utopia in 1516, outlining his vision of a — wait for it — utopia, it’s safe to say he didn’t […]

City Life

What We Know (So Far) About the Future of the PES Refinery

Before this summer, the average Philadelphian likely rarely considered Philadelphia Energy Solutions, the massive oil refinery complex located northeast of the airport. Maybe you, like me, occasionally passed the […]

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Restaurants

A Comcast Exec Left This Philly Bartender a $1,000 Tip on a $47 Check

When an NFL star left a 20-cent (as opposed to 20 percent) tip at P.Y.T. in 2014, I exposed his utter rudeness. And when a […]

NextHealth PHL

Biotech Tour: Inside the New Jefferson Institute for Bioprocessing

In May, Thomas Jefferson University opened the doors to a Philadelphia first — the Jefferson Institute for Bioprocessing (JIB). With the potential to help fill the local workforce […]

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City Life

Penn Book Center’s New Owners on Kindles, Coffee, and Why They’re Still Not Sure About the Name

When the Penn Book Center’s owners announced in April that they were planning to shutter the 57-year-old store, professors and students protested, unwilling to pledge fealty to […]