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Eight months after four West Philadelphia boys drown, the city and the police are still battling over the truth
FOUR BOYS ON bikes journey down to the river on a sunny fall day. There is a factory. a weed patch, a rock. The waters […]
Features: The Warren Commission, The Truth, and Arlen Specter: Part 2
THE AUTOPSY REPORT was sent to the Commission, through the Secret Service, on December 20th. The Commission based its conclusions about the characteristics of Kennedy’s […]
The 100 Most Influential People in Philadelphia
[rev_slider alias=”influentialphiladelphias”] What’s fascinating about compiling a list of the most influential people in Philadelphia is that there’s really no way to quantify influence. Influence […]
TEST 100 People
[rev_slider alias=”influentialphiladelphias”] What’s fascinating about compiling a list of the most influential people in Philadelphia is that there’s really no way to quantify influence. Influence […]
Press Lord 2.0
THEY HAD LET the place go to hell. Tierney could see it the first day he walked in the door. In the lobby alone, the […]
Best of the Shore
Ocean City The perfect place for young couples with young children, the town that was founded as a Christian retreat in 1879 has all the […]
Summer after summer, we can’t wait to …
The Essential Shore
The 76 Most Influential People in Philadelphia Right Now
Clout is something you feel, not something you measure. It’s highly subjective. And yet by any gauge, our idea of power players — and what […]
Twenty-five years after leaving town, our writer, who grew up in Logan, came back to walk all 13 miles of our grandest boulevard. The landmarks he remembered are largely gone, but it's still a street overflowing with stories, dreams and danger.
The Big B was at least five stories high, ruby by day, aglow at night, so you could see it from miles away, bright and […]
Cradle to Grave
In the 1960s, a local couple became the most famous bereaved parents in America as their ten babies died mysteriously, one after another. In April 1998, a Philadelphia magazine investigation revealed the deaths were indeed tragic, but perhaps not unexplainable.
One quarter of the way into his term, Frank Rizzo meets the press. Head on.
In the beginning, this was supposed to be Maury Levy’s story. Or, at least the idea of his doing a story on Frank Rizzo’s first […]