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35 Concerts You Can’t Miss This Fall in Philly
Hall & Oates, Ringo, Fetty, Kraftwerk and more.
More Philly Hospitals Are Becoming “Baby-Friendly.” Maybe That’s Not a Good Thing.
The rigid, confounding, densely bureaucratic Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative has morphed into a system that diminishes a mother’s ability to make the best choices for her child.
They don’t have jobs. They’re dropping out of college. They play video games all day and watch porn all night. Even their sperm counts are low. Why won’t guys grow up?
THE WOMEN ARE IRATE. The women are talking about men, young men, the men they’d like to date and marry, and are they ever […]
After doubling in the past decade, local real estate prices are finally — finally! — cooling down. But just how much?
NOTHING HAUNTS HOMEOWNERS like these two words: “housing bubble.” We’ve been hearing about it, everywhere and incessantly, for at least a year now. Most people […]
The Marcellus Shale controversy may feel worlds away, but it could change everything from our economy to the water we drink. Our man travels through Gasland and brings back tales of boom towns, big business, angry nuns, Hollywood stars and the fight that’s going to transform our state forever
Two Oscar nominees appearing on the same day. Probably a first for Honesdale High School. They’re here in the 5,000-resident seat of Wayne County at […]
For nearly 30 years, you've invited him into your living room. But you don't know the real Jim Gardner at all
If this story was about Cecily Tynan, weather-hottie extraordinaire, we'd discuss the marathon she runs every morning before checking her Doppler, and probably try to […]
Remember laughing till it hurt? Here are 49 ways to get back to that place
1. Ride a zipline. Soar through the foliage from 40 feet up — and try not to close your eyes, ya big chicken. Spring Mountain, […]
Thanks to celebrity anti-vaccine crusaders like Jenny McCarthy and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Children’s Hospital doctor and vaccine inventor Paul Offit gets death threats from parents frantic about autism — and worse. He’s had enough. He’s taking his critics on
A few years ago, Paul Offit found himself in a small room with a bob-haired American mother of three who was so mad at him […]
The Undercover Cowboys Fan
Are Philly fans really as ugly as everybody says?
A tale of influence, money, accusations of betrayal — and the impact Dick Sprague and Vince Fumo’s shattered relationship is having on the rest of us.
THEY WATCHED EACH other, for a long time, from a distance. Eighteen years separate them in age, a gap as wide as a father and […]
As the Archdiocese reels from a second grand jury report detailing its cover-up of sexual abuse by priests, the local church faces the biggest crisis in its history. How could a spiritual institution turn a blind eye to evil not just once, but twice? The answer lies in the story of the two men who’ve led the Catholic Church in Philadelphia for the past 25 years
"Is this true?" In February, at a hastily convened meeting of Catholic Church lawyers and administrators in Center City, that was the first question Cardinal […]
Bill Cosby On Trial
How, if his scores of accusers are to be believed, did one of America’s most iconic entertainers hide his dark side for five decades?
Chewing the Fat with Former Phillies Manager Jim Fregosi
On a cold winter weekend, Jim Fregosi and the Phillies brain trust prepare for the ’96 baseball season
How Much Turmoil Can Temple University Take?
Low enrollment, crime on campus, a president who didn’t even last two years. The city’s only four-year public university has spent the past decade stumbling from one crisis to the next. Why getting Temple on the right path is crucial to the city’s future.
For 40 Years, Philly Mayors Have Promised to End Poverty. For 40 Years, I’ve Watched Them Fail.
Administration after administration, their plans have solved nothing. This is what having a front-row seat to decades of political futility looks like.