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City Life

Made In America 2019: Your Guide to Road Closures, Parking, and Public Transit

You’ve just made it past the public-space-encroaching party that is Dîner en Blanc, and guess what? Now there are more crowds on the way! Jay […]

City Life

Nothing Compares 2 U: The I. Goldberg I Remember

It may be hard to imagine in an era when you can, y’know, subscribe to your clothes, but way back in my college days — […]

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City Life

Philly Launches “Unsolved Murders” Website to Help Police Solve Thousands of Open Homicides

Barely a day goes by in Philadelphia without a deadly shooting. The circumstances, victim names, and grainy surveillance videos are regularly splashed on the 11 […]

City Life

This 26-Pound Adoptable Chonk Sure Looks Like a Bobcat

I hope each and every Philadelphian is blessed enough to gaze their eyes upon these exquisite photos of Mr. B, a very large Philly feline who is, with no need […]

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Restaurants

Fergie Is Out at Monk’s, Will Take Over Oh! Shea’s on Sansom Street

Thursday turned out to be a rather pivotal day in the life of Philly bon vivant Fergus Carey, known to most simply as Fergie. In […]

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City Life

Retaliation, Unwanted Groping, and “Stolen” Breast Milk: The Philly Police Lawsuit, Broken Down

Virtually no one saw it coming. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross shocked the city on Tuesday when he announced his resignation amid a sexual harassment […]

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City Life

Let There Be Light (Emitting Diodes): Philly to Retrofit All 100,000 City Streetlights

The city of Philadelphia has a great many plans to reduce its municipal energy consumption in the name of staving off climate change. These include ambitious […]

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City Life

Here’s How to Watch the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Practice at the Linc

Guess what, Philly? You’ve got not just one, but two chances to see the U.S. women’s soccer team at the Linc this month. In July, we […]

NextHealth PHL

This STEAM Program Is Challenging Students to See Food Through a Scientific Lens

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that by 2027 the number of jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) will grow 13 percent, compared […]

City Life

The Philly Shops Where You Can Break In Your New (Digital) Apple Credit Card

Congratulations: Because there is no end to the manifest destiny of tech companies, you can now get a credit card from Apple. With this new product […]

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Restaurants

Eat Ice Cream Like a Kid Again at Port Richmond’s Somerset Splits

For all the buzz of its neighbors Fishtown and Kensington, Port Richmond’s dining scene is just starting to emerge as a new food and drink destination […]

NextHealth PHL

A New Alzheimer’s Drug Is Being Tested in the Philadelphia Region

Keystone Clinical Studies, a clinical research site in Norristown, has screened its first participants in a first-of-its-kind clinical trial. Known as T2 Protect AD, the trial aims to test […]

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City Life

At Philly Court Hearing, a Wrenching Preview of Fight Over Safe Injection Sites

Jose Benitez was rattling off statistics from memory under cross-examination from U.S. Attorney Bill McSwain. 15,000 people served last year at Prevention Point, the city-sanctioned nonprofit […]

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City Life

Here’s How to Get $10 Tickets to “Hamilton” in Philly

Hamilton frenzy went into full effect earlier this summer when ticket sales were announced for the Broadway smash, which opens at the Forrest Theater on […]

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City Life

Eastern State Showcases Work of Incarcerated Filmmakers in “Hidden Lives Illuminated”

When Sean Kelley, director of interpretation at Eastern State Penitentiary, stood before inmates at the Chester State Correctional Institution a year ago to ask if they wanted to […]