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Crankcase: Happily Never After

There was something oddly familiar about David Sills’s story. Oh, in many ways, his life is one-of-a-kind. Maybe you remember how he soared to fame […]

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The Curious Case of Rittenhouse’s “No Gay Cruising” Sign

In the ’80s, in my first apartment at 20th and Spruce, I remember lying awake as the same bad muffler circled the block all night. […]

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The 100 Most Influential People in Philadelphia

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Is Philly Really Less Corrupt Than It Used to Be?

Need a belly laugh? This fall, the Washington, D.C.-based mag Governing praised Philadelphia for virtually stamping out political corruption. I wish I were exaggerating. The […]

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One of Us: Nick Elmi

The Top Chef winner, 37, has one of the hardest tables to get in Philly (Laurel) and is behind the eagerly anticipated Royal Boucherie in […]

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Jennifer Weiner: The Literary Lioness

This is what the world knows about Jennifer Weiner: She writes funny and emotionally gripping novels about plucky plus-size heroines. She writes insightful and pithy […]

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Nicole Cashman: Maven of Messaging

Over nearly two decades, Nicole Cashman has grown her single-employee start-up shop into one of the most formidable public relations powers in the region. Cashman […]

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Stephen Klasko: Health-Care Disrupter

What difference can one man make? How Jefferson has grown during Klasko’s time as president and CEO. Originally published as part of “The 100 Most […]

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Carl June: The Cancer Slayer

Take a giant leap toward a cure for cancer, and everybody wants a piece of you. On an afternoon in late August, two days before […]

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Adam Grant: The Thinker

Over the six years Adam Grant has spent as a professor of management at Wharton — the youngest tenured prof at the school and the […]