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How Philly Learned to Love AI: Everything You Need to Know About Our Bot-Powered Future

Artificial intelligence is officially everywhere in Philly (including lots of places you’d never think to look). Here, everything you need to know about the brave […]

City Life

Five Really Smart Philadelphians Talk About What AI Can (and Can’t) Do

We ask five really smart local leaders about the capabilities of AI technology (and, for fun, their favorite work of science fiction). The Marketing Maven […]

City Life

Point/Counterpoint: Educators and Students Weigh in on ChatGPT

University-based instructors make the case for AI’s potential to level the educational playing field. Meanwhile, one Temple journalist argues that generative AI could defeat the […]

City Life

Meet the Bad Boy of Philly Antiquities

When I find W. Graham Arader III in his stunning 26-room pre-Revolutionary suburban mansion last summer, he’s eating from a clear plastic tub — the kind […]

Foobooz

This Pizza Prodigy Has Pie in the Sky Dreams for Ocean City

It was January at its dreariest, and Mike Fitzick, the 2004 college dropout and Mack & Manco delivery boy who would eventually become the Shore’s […]

Foobooz

Sweet Freedom: An Ode to the Margate Dairy Bar

I never learned to drive. Some combination of my anxiety and my overprotective mother made it feel like something that just wasn’t for me. That’s […]

Foobooz

The 2024 Guide to Dining Down the Shore

Whether it’s a soft-serve cone, a plate of lobster gnocchi, or any of the million bites in between, we can all agree: Everything tastes better […]

Foobooz

30 Essential Eats Down the Shore

For those of us who make an annual pilgrimage down the Shore, the first hot day of summer triggers a Pavlovian response: We salivate for […]

City Life

Horseshoe Crabs Are About to Have an Orgy on Delaware Bay Beaches. Here’s Why — and What’s Threatening It

When the tide comes under May’s full moon, an extraordinary, almost magical event occurs on Delaware Bay beaches: Like an invasion of small prehistoric tanks, […]

Be Well Philly

Why Seeing a Doctor Takes So Long — and How to Get Health Care When You Need It

If Philly is one of the greatest medical cities in America, why does it take so long to get a doctor’s appointment here — and […]