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Philly Mag’s Hoagies Cover Story Wins Coveted National Magazine Award
Check phillymag.com each morning Monday through Thursday for the latest edition of Philly Today. And if you have a news tip for our hardworking Philly […]
A Night in the Life of the Night Mayor
It’s 12:30 a.m. on what’s just become a Friday in August, and I’m out and about with the Night Mayor. We’re on West Girard at […]
Dear Famous 4th Street Deli, Don’t Ever Change
One of the details I adore about Famous 4th Street deli is how far the dining room juts out into the sidewalk. It leaves just […]
Angelo Cataldi’s Long Farewell
It’s a friend of mine — let’s call him Billy from Broomall — who captures something important about the arc of Angelo Cataldi’s long run […]
At Asad’s, Stunning Hot Chicken Is Always Worth the Wait
At Asad’s Hot Chicken, everyone waits. There’s gonna be a line every time you go. Probably a long one, curling past the side of this […]
How Do We Teach History in America Today?
On a Tuesday in late June, we gathered six distinguished local educators (meet the panel) in our offices in the Curtis building, just off Independence […]
Can Ryan Boyer Change How Philly Unions Do Politics?
May 17th was supposed to be a political coronation for Ryan Boyer. Boyer is the business manager of Laborers’ District Council, the umbrella organization that […]
How COVID Warped Our Sense of Time
I’ve always had a good memory, at least in an autobiographical sense. In my little group of old-time friends, I’m the one everybody calls when […]
The Ugly Philly-Centric Feud at the Center of America’s 250th Birthday Celebration
Independence Hall. A glorious spring day. Enthused parents and less-enthused teenagers march around, gazing up at the bronze statue of Commodore John Barry, his outstretched […]
The Philadelphia Folk Festival Is Hanging On By a String
Pinch me. There was Judy Collins, love of my seriously folked-up teenage life, sitting alone under a willow tree on the Wilson Farm at the […]