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Unexpected Silhouettes, Mixed-Up Patterns, and a Killer Lady-Suit: Fashion Gets Fun Again

Show of hands — who’s had enough of minimalism? When it comes to getting done up to go out, we say it’s time to get […]

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City Life

Millennials Are Drowning in Student Debt

It was sticky and humid the day my sister Ellen graduated from West Chester University this spring, even by Pennsylvania-in-mid-May standards. As I sat in […]

City Life

One of Us: Michael Coard

I grew up in … North Philly, at 20th and York. I went to high school … at Masterman. Then Cheyney for undergrad and Ohio […]

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How Cookie Till Became the Queen of Margate

There are exactly three ways to get a summer-weekend dinner reservation at Steve & Cookie’s in Margate. Option 1: Go to the restaurant in person […]

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City Life

The Ridiculously Cute, Impossibly Adorable Love Story of Zach and Julie Ertz

Warning: If you’re allergic to stories about married couples who are ridiculously in love and blush or giggle when asked about each other, please contact […]

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City Life

How Millennials Killed Mayonnaise

I write this in the dead of summer, always a bittersweet season — why is it we got summers off from school for all those […]

City Life

Best of Philly 2018: Media, Politics, and People

Takers of the High Road Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson After their arrest — a textbook case of racial bias — at a Philly Starbucks […]

City Life

What Does Daryl Metcalfe Have Against Philadelphia?

December 5th, 2017, started out as just another low and mildly contemptible day in Harrisburg. But by midmorning, it had metastasized into one that would […]

City Life

One of Us: David L. Cohen

My name is … David L. Cohen. I always use the L, because former Philadelphia City Council member David Cohen would get mad when I’d […]

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The War on Drugs Is the Rock Band We Need Right Now

Adam Granduciel is shuffling around backstage at Late Night with Seth Meyers with a paper cup of coffee in his hands, not sure what to […]