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Jim Fregosi Phillies manager

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

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10 Years Later, an Oral History of Superstorm Sandy

A decade after Sandy made furious landfall at the Jersey Shore, the region is still feeling her effects. The story, and the legacy, in the words of the people who lived through it.

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Freeman, a.k.a. The Buddha, was supposedly rebuilding Germantown. And even though project after project failed, political heavyweights—from Ed Rendell to Bob Brady to Michael Nutter—kept giving him our money. Lots and lots of our money.

“Miss Rogers, there’s flies, there’s flies.” “What? What are you talking about?” Sherri Rogers (not her real name) figured the girl in the back of […]

The Last Mouthpiece

YOUR EYE LEAPS to it the instant you enter the room. You’re tempted to blink hard, just to be sure it’s really there. But it […]

Even before his arrest on child pornography charges last summer, former Wharton faculty member Scott Ward had a history of questionable contact with teenage boys. So why was he still a free man? And why was he still teaching at Penn? It's a feat only

The Brilliant Professor Ward

Is This the New Johnny Doc?

John Dougherty says he’s changed. But what’s ever that simple with him?

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Charles Ramsey’s Endless, Frustrating War Against Bad Cops

The soon-to-retire police commissioner cleaned up city streets, but he couldn’t clear out the bad cops in his own department.

This Philly-Area Run Coach Has Spent Quarantine — You Guessed It — Logging Miles

A week in the socially distanced life of Vanessa Peralta-Mitchell, run coach and liaison for Girls on the Run.

Features: The Warren Commission, The Truth, and Arlen Specter: Part 1

IT IS DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE the Warren Commission Report is the truth. Arlen Specter knows it. It is difficult to believe that "all the shots […]

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50 Best Restaurants in Philadelphia

All the best places to eat, ranked.

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Where to Eat at the Jersey Shore: The Ultimate Guide

From LBI to Cape May, we’ve got you covered with this list of all the best Shore eats, from breakfast and brunch to pizza and ice cream.

From white-tablecloth affairs to strip-mall secrets, we've got even you hardest of hard-core foodies covered. (Psst: Make those reservations pronto!)

Restaurant trend Small plates Tapas, meze, dim sum, “bites” … call it what you will. We call small plates the biggest trend in Philadelphia dining, […]

House of Heidnick murder

Two decades ago, Philadelphia was introduced to its most notorious criminal — an eccentric who gruesomely tortured six women in his basement. On the 20th anniversary, the question still lingers: Was Gary Heidnik insane … or just evil?

Inside the House of Heidnik

Two summers ago, Ed Rendell and Vince Fumo pushed through a bill virtually ensuring that the favorite slots parlors of the usual Philadelphia insiders would come to town. Never mind whether we wanted them — or what gambling might do to the city

Gaming the System

In North Philadelphia, where 10-year-old Faheem Childs was murdered two years ago, the cost of speaking out against violence might be your life. But keeping quiet has a steep price, too. The heartbreaking story of one neighborhood

The Raging Silence