Philadelphia Magazine

Opinion

City Life

The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz for the Week Ending May 23rd

City Life

Confessions of a Beach Hater: 7 Reasons Memorial Day in the City is Amazing

If you want everyone in the room to leer at you like you’re a gnarled-face, infant-eating freak, simply utter the following four words: “I hate […]

City Life

6 Ways Philly Really Is a World-Class City

“After walking about it for an hour or two, I felt I would have given the world for a crooked street,” Charles Dickens wrote of […]

City Life

A Time to Mourn — Not to Score Points

Let me first admit: I’m part of the problem. Many times in my journalism career, something big, important, and tragic has happened, and my job […]

City Life

Uber, UberX Want to Be Jersey Shore’s Designated Driver

Uber is continuing its march across New Jersey by adding services for the South Jersey Shore, just in time for Memorial Day Weekend. Today the […]

City Life

9 Golden Rules of Amtrak Etiquette

Darn! I missed National Train Day on May 10th. But in reality I have a lot of train days. That’s because I’ve been using Amtrak […]

City Life

Is Pa. Not Ready for a Female Governor? Or Just Not Ready for Allyson Schwartz?

Is Montgomery County Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz bitter after getting trounced in the Democratic gubernatorial primary? NBC Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd thinks so. On […]

City Life

Sixers Get No. 3 and No. 10 Picks; Dr. J Is Confused and Sad

All that tanking — the trades of Jrue Holiday on draft day 2013 and in-season trades of the rest of the team, the loss by […]

City Life

In Pennsylvania Same-Sex Marriage Ruling, Straight People Win, Too

Let me tell you about Don and Ken. I can’t remember if those are their real names, precisely. What I can tell you is that […]

City Life

Have a Moral Dilemma? There’s an App for That.

The parking garage I use downtown has a coupon online that makes for a hefty discount. So every day, I make sure I’ve printed out […]

City Life

7 Ridiculous Political Ads From the Pennsylvania Governor’s Race

Election Day is almost here! Tuesday is Pennsylvania primary day, so politicians will be ceding television commercial breaks back to their usual occupants (ads for […]

City Life

QUIZ: The Ultimate Guide to Tipping

To tip or not to tip?  That is the question. The answer wasn’t a difficult one for one wealthy patron of Rouge in Rittenhouse Square.  […]

City Life

The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz for the Week Ending May 16th

The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz: Seven simple questions about the week that was. Are you a newser … or a loser?

City Life

13 More Bizarre Philadelphia International Airport Moments: A Timeline

This past Tuesday night, the pilots of a US Airways flight heading from Philadelphia International Airport to London were forced to make good on their […]

City Life

The Five Jersey Shore Stories of the Summer

Memorial Day is just around the corner, which means the start of what will hopefully be another sunny summer at the Jersey Shore. For the […]