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City Life

The 10 Commandments of Solo Travel

Heading out into the world on your own for the first time? Here, the laws that will make an on-your-own excursion a success: 1. Be […]

Property

Six Philly-Area Rail Proposals That Never Came to Be (But Still Could)

Schuylkill Valley Metro Proposed: Early 1990s. Goal: Light metro from Center City to Reading. Proponents: Montco officials hoping to stimulate economic development. Opponents: The city […]

Restaurants

Drexel Is Making Culinary School Mean Something Again

The initial Philly Chef Conference, back in 2014, was a pretty big deal. It was the first of its kind: a two-day event put together […]

City Life

Grandparent Names: Nana Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

“She can call me Ellen.” That’s what my mother told my brother when his daughter — the first grandchild in our family — was born […]

Restaurants

Ugly On the Inside: Danlu Reviewed

You know what I hate about this place? That it has a roof. I hate that it has four walls and a floor that doesn’t […]

City Life

Campus Life 101: What It’s Like to Be a Philly College Student Right Now

Haverford College Students:* 1,318 Location: Haverford Students routinely describe the liberal arts school as an intimate (“really small”) school where everybody knows everybody. The school’s […]

City Life

Remember When College Was Fun?

Cami Potter first spotted a professional party pooper in September. She’d just finished another excruciatingly long week at the University of Pennsylvania. The 21-year-old senior, […]

Things to Do

The 10 Best Shows in Philly in March

1. “Leonard Bernstein: The Power of Music” The very first large-scale exhibition celebrating the life and work of the famed composer, it includes some 100 […]

City Life

How Alexa Ruined My Marriage

My husband Doug and I were watching the halftime show of a nationally televised Sixers game when he squinted at the screen. “Who’s that on […]

City Life

Inside Philly’s New Day Care and Preschool Boom

The country’s birth rate is at an all-time low, but you’d never know it from walking around Philly. (Forget bike lanes; we need stroller lanes.) […]