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One Day in the Life of Philly: This Is Us

This city — any city — is an accident of geography. At some point, someone stood here, looked around, took in the conjoining rivers and […]

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One Day in Philly: Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sánchez

It’s hard to imagine there’s anyone in the City of Philadelphia who utters the phrase “opioid crisis” more often than Maria Quiñones-Sánchez. “I never thought […]

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One Day in Philly: Stephen Klasko, Jefferson CEO

It’s 9:40 a.m. on this, yet another day in Steve Klasko’s quest to remake the world, and the president of Thomas Jefferson University and CEO […]

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One Day in Philly: Carol Serena, Parc GM

Not much in life is certain, but Carol Serena, the general manager of Parc, knows three things. She knows that at some point today, the […]

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One Day in Philly: Judge Mia Roberts-Perez

It hasn’t even been a week since Mia Roberts-Perez’s 37th birthday, and she’s presiding over a man’s fate. In her Common Pleas courtroom on the […]

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One Day in Philly: Eighth-Grader Amanda Green

If you’ve felt pummeled by this world lately, your belief in innocence and joy and a life-affirming future wounded by everything that is 2018, perhaps […]

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One Day in Philly: HughE Dillon, Society Photographer

“I always take three photos, because Penny is a blinker.” The Penny in question is Penny Fox, wife of Robert A. Fox, the chairman and […]

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How the National Dog Show Won Thanksgiving

He was alone except for the man selling popcorn and Milk Duds in the movie-theater lobby. While everyone else was nestled in their seats, watching […]

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Meet the New Northeast Philadelphia

One recent Saturday morning, on a well-trafficked strip of Castor Avenue in Oxford Circle, a Chinese Buddhist, a Hindu of Guyanese descent, a Muslim from […]

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Adam Grant Is (Not) Superman

Adam Grant is impatient. I can see it in the way that he’s sitting, perched forward, eager and anticipatory, as though he might leap up at […]