Philadelphia Magazine

Featured

City Life

How Michael Rubin, Meek Mill’s Billionaire Bestie, Got Woke

“Did you see what’s on his phone? That’s the most pathetic thing I’ve ever seen.” Michael Rubin is wrestling with Joel Embiid in a losing […]

vetri marc jeff benjamin philadelphia
Restaurants

The Birth of Vetri

At the end of 1993, I was 23 years old, working for Aramark as a corporate food service director, and living on Long Island. Fortunately, […]

philadelphia fitness instructors t
Be Well Philly

Daydreaming About Quitting Your Job to Become a Spin Instructor? Read This First.

I can hear Shoshana Katz shouting from the lobby of the gym. She screams a couple of words I can’t repeat here, and I eventually […]

drop plan deferred retirement option philadelphia t
City Life

The Looming DROP Apocalypse

He was the only son of the Big Bambino, but even that couldn’t save him from the political firestorm over DROP. Seven years ago, Frank […]

animal ethics vegetarianism eating meat t
City Life

I Used to Love Steak — Then I Met a Cow

When I was in my 20s, I started working at an alternative weekly, which I should explain to younger readers was a free tabloid-format newspaper […]

saugerties new york kingston things to do t
Things to Do

Kingston and Saugerties: Fall More Deeply In Love

So you’re already a regular in Hudson, and your first visit to Storm King happened in college. Ready to deepen your love affair with HV? […]

hudson new york things to do t
Things to Do

Hudson: The Perfect Maiden Voyage Upstate

If you’re skeptical about this whole New-York-beyond-the-five-boroughs thing, the city of Hudson is the place to start. Getting there is easy — you can Amtrak […]

rhinebeck new york things to do t
Things to Do

Rhinebeck: Go to Indulge Your Inner Gwyneth

With its multiple yoga and Pilates studios and an across-the-board emphasis on locally sourced foods, it’s easy to turn Rhinebeck — a quaint town on […]

beacon new york things to do
Things to Do

Beacon: Art, Hiking and, Oh, the Views

You know this story: A busy Northeast town loses its factories in the 1960s and ’70s, shriveling to a shell of its former self. Artists, […]

fall travel ideas weekend getaways philadelphia
Things to Do

2018 Fall Travel Guide: Your Hudson Valley Escape Awaits

If you still think of New York’s Hudson Valley as a sleepy riverbed best known for landscape paintings, think again — these days, the small […]