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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 […]

City Life

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 […]

City Life

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 […]

City Life

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 […]

Business

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 […]

Business

I Love My Job

We’ve all heard the saying: “If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.” Honestly, that’s a load of crap. […]

City Life

Has Temple University Lost Its Way?

The soft-spoken president of Temple University, Dick Englert, talks to Patrick O’Connor, the school’s chairman of the board of trustees, every day. The two men […]

Restaurants

A Philly-Themed Bar Called Passyunk Avenue Has Won Londoners’ Cold, Cold Hearts

Three isn’t quite enough. Eight is far too many. But that sweet spot between your fourth and seventh beers? That’s when the best bar arguments […]

City Life

The Stealth Revolution in Male Hair

Earlier this year, my husband came home from the barbershop with a quarter-inch-wide strip of white scalp along the line where he customarily divides his […]

City Life

Can a Radical New High School Disrupt Education in Philadelphia?

Gina Moore draws a sip of grapefruit-tequila cocktail, a small black notebook cradled in her lap. A financial professional and mother of two in her […]