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City Life

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 […]

Foobooz

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 […]

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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 […]

Foobooz

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 […]

City Life

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 […]

City Life

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 […]

City Life

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

Foobooz

A Second-Generation Twist on Georgian Classics Joins Reading Terminal Market this Summer

If you want to eat Georgian food — without having grown up with someone who regularly made doughy-thick knots of khinkali in your own home […]