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House Hunting in Philadelphia: How These Suburban Empty Nesters Downsized in Style

Who: Bill Ware, 60, primary-care physician; Jennifer Ware, 57, social worker. Their target: A smaller, lower-maintenance house now that the kids have established themselves. Their […]

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House Hunting in Philadelphia: How This Young Family Landed on Their New South Philly Rowhouse

Who: Jonathan Moody, 35, project consultant; Jennifer Moody, 37, information services applications manager. Their target: A house big enough for a growing family in an […]

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House Hunting in Philadelphia: How This Family Found a Roomy Home in the City

Who: Bernard Greene, 42, senior director at Comcast; Rita Johnson-Greene, 42, head of commercial operations for a biomedical firm. Their target: A big colonial closer […]

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Can the New Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics Unlock the Science of Beauty?

Late last year in New York, Christie’s auctioned off Edmond de Belamy, an artwork generated by a computer that had been fed 15,000 portraits painted […]

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A Philadelphian’s Guide to 4 Sunny Mexico Getaways

There’s a reason everyone from your book-club crew to the La Colombe barista can’t stop raving about recent trips to Mexico: With high-design hotels on […]

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City Life

John McNesby’s Massive Influence on Philadelphia Policing

The meeting hall was packed when John McNesby took the podium that day in August 2017. McNesby, the president of Philadelphia’s police union, read from […]

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People Laughed When This Philly Lawyer Sued Led Zeppelin. Nobody’s Laughing Now.

The fact that Philadelphia barrister Francis Alexander Malofiy, Esquire, is suing Led Zeppelin over the authorship of “Stairway to Heaven” is, by any objective measure, […]

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Teenagers Are More Stressed Than Ever. Who’s to Blame?

One morning last fall, I was sitting at Green Engine Coffee in Haverford when I felt my phone buzz in my pocket. One buzz at […]

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How Rescue Spa’s Danuta Mieloch Became the Queen of Skincare

It’s a Tuesday morning, and I’m walking out of the best bathroom in the city — a bathroom where the air smells faintly of sandalwood […]

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Asa Khalif Is Running for Philadelphia City Council. Is City Council Ready for Him?

One November morning a little over a year ago, Asa Khalif and Ikey Raw paid a visit to the Philadelphia office of Josh Shapiro, the […]