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Why These Drexel Docs Want All the Dead Mice You Trap in Your House

Listen to the audio edition here: Most right-thinking human beings hate mice. They leave their little turds all over the kitchen counter. They gnaw open […]

Restaurants

This Philly Pop-Up Is Turning Kitchen Scraps Into Climate Action

Every year, Philadelphia throws away 206 million pounds of food, more than a quarter of which comes from the restaurant industry. Whether you’re looking at […]

Life & Style

What We’re Loving Right Now: Cozy Cardigans From Mount Airy–Based Wol Hide

This week’s return to winter is destroying my soul. All I want to do is huddle under a pile of warm blankets and wait for […]

Life & Style

East Passyunk’s YUNS Hardware Is a One-Stop Shop for DIY Home Projects

I am the least handy person I know. I have a long list of home projects that I need to tackle, but they sit untouched, […]

City Life

How Will the War Hit Your Wallet?

With any geopolitical crisis come questions of if and how activities in far-off lands could hit us financially back here in Philadelphia. The long answer […]

City Life

The Redevelopment of the Old Family Court Building Is Dead

Listen to the audio edition here: “What’s happening with the old Family Court building?” It seemed like a simple enough question when a friend posed […]

Philadelphia Wedding

You Can (Finally!) Hold Your Wedding Reception at Longwood Gardens

With the showstopping makeover of Longwood Gardens — a $250 million expansion and renovation that debuted in November of 2024 — comes good news for […]

Philadelphia Wedding

Every Vendor You Can Meet at Philadelphia Wedding’s Bubbly Ball

If you’ve been looking for a way to kick off your wedding planning journey, this is it. Philadelphia Wedding’s Bubbly Ball event is set for […]

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Restaurants

Philly’s Next Big Export Is Itself

Listen to the audio edition here: Philly’s restaurant scene has never been hotter than it is right now. It has never been more marketable than […]

Restaurants

Delco Getting Wild North Philly All-Day Breakfast Joint in Wilson’s Secret Sauce Space

The talk of the town in Delco of late has not been the geopolitical mess we find ourselves in or AI taking over the world […]

Life & Style

Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner Just Released a Jewelry Collab With Catbird, and We’re Obsessed

Michelle Zauner — the Best of Philly-winning lead singer of Japanese Breakfast and author of Crying in H Mart — has added another creative outlet: […]

The Philadelphia Citizen

Ideas We Should Steal: Make Restaurant Reuse Easy

A Seattle program has encouraged both mom-and-pop eateries and behemoths like Starbucks to pare down their customer-facing waste. Could litter-burdened Philly do the same? Read […]

City Life

The Great Philly Mag Semiquincentennial Quiz: Part 2

Welcome to the second round of Philly Mag’s “America 250” celebration quiz! This month, we’re dialing in on the semi-obscure, somewhat murky, utterly unbidden earliest […]

Be Well Philly

Could These New Tiny Robots Cure Cancer?

Listen to the audio edition here: Inside a lab in the University of Pennsylvania’s Levine Hall are robots so tiny they can balance on a […]

City Life

The Most Quintessentially Philadelphia Sports Moments

When we were working on our list of the 25 Most Philly Athletes of All Time, we couldn’t help but get a little nostalgic for […]