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Michael Solomonov Opens Vegan Falafel Shop (With Vegan Shakes!)

Michael Solomonov is making moves in 2017. He and his partner Steve Cook just opened an impressively charitable luncheonette in Center City called Rooster Soup Co., last night was Solo’s documentary debut at […]

Things to Do

Comedy: Let’s Have a Todd Barry Film Fest

Todd Barry is low-key one of the funniest people in comedy — and it’s most because he’s so low-key. He doesn’t move around, he doesn’t […]

Property

Main Line Monday: Contemporary Cool in Haverford for $998.5K

This is certainly not your average home, folks. We’re starting to think that’s why we like it so much. This contemporary-style residence presents typical household amenities in […]

Be Well Philly

The Checkup: This Will Convince You to Never Charge Your Phone in Bed Again

• I am basically attachment parenting my phone: It goes everywhere I go and it sleeps in my bed. I am not proud. But that […]

Shoppist

Connoisseur: Amy Sadao

Since becoming director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in 2012, Sadao, a Rittenhouse resident, has used her keen eye and business acumen to help […]

City Life

The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Brock Stassi Made the Big Leagues

We live in a world of insta-success these days. A single tweet, a viral video, and you (or you, or I) can be the Next […]

City Life

Is Real Equality Finally Coming to the Gayborhood?

“Anti-blackness anywhere is anti-blackness everywhere!” The chant roared through a bullhorn on September 23, 2016, as a group of 15 mostly black and Latinx LGBTQ […]

City Life

What It’s Like to Live in Philly on $18,000

As an adult, it’s interesting to look back on my family’s financial situation growing up. If there were money concerns, my father and mother, a […]

City Life

What It’s Like to Live in Philly on $50,000

Growing up in Montgomery County, I remember my parents telling me, “You need to pay your bills, and you need to pay them on time, […]

City Life

What It’s Like to Live in Philly on $130,000

My mother didn’t come from money. Her father was a taxicab driver. Back then, in the ’50s, there were sororities in high school. My mother […]

City Life

What It’s Like to Live in Philly on $1,000,000+

My husband and I come from very different backgrounds, money-wise. Both of my parents came from large farming families. Where I grew up, hard work […]

City Life

Now and Then: A Snapshot of Philly Finances

  » See more from our Money in Philadelphia package First published as “Now and Then” in the April 2017 issue of Philadelphia magazine.  

City Life

From Jim Kenney to Brian Roberts: What Philly’s Biggest Names Make Each Year

Brian Roberts, CEO, Comcast, $36.2 million Bill Marrazzo, CEO, WHYY, $703,718 Marrazzo is among the highest-paid public broadcasting CEOs in the entire country. Jeremy Hellickson, […]

City Life

Boomers vs. Millennials: How Differently Do They View Money?

You know the rap on boomers — those greedy oldsters who elected Donald Trump. And you know millennials — those special snowflakes who spend all […]

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6 Philly Finance Experts Share Their Best Money Advice

For the family on a budget “Insurance tends to creep up with inflationary adjustment. Every two years, you owe it to yourself to get additional […]