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Can You Run Pennsylvania the Way You Run a Garbage Company?

Scott Wagner is winning. It’s a Friday in August, and the York County businessman-turned-state-senator just sent out 600 paychecks to his employees. Penn Waste, his […]

Things to Do

Let Us Now Praise 20 Years of Preston and Steve

My wife has a dirty little secret. Every day, after she drops the kids off at their conservative Catholic school on the Main Line, she […]

City Life

Six Gloriously Warm Ways to Escape a Sub-Zero Philly Winter

1. Take a Direct Flight Step on the plane at PHL. Step off in … AUSTIN Flight time: 3 hours, 18 minutes Average January high […]

Restaurants

Philly’s Third Restaurant Renaissance Has Arrived

Food writers in Philadelphia go through what I like to call the “12 Steps of Stephen Starr.” Okay, there are more like four steps, but […]

Restaurants

Philly’s New Food Establishment

Greg Vernick and Nick Elmi The Torchbearers Vernick and Elmi are the ones setting the bar now, and they’re bringing everyone else up with them. […]

City Life

One of Us: Ron Jaworski

My full name is … Ronald Vincent Joseph Jaworski. I’m third-generation from Poland. I grew up in … Lackawanna, New York. I first came to […]

City Life

The Larry Krasner Experiment Starts Now

Larry Krasner unplugs his car from the wall of a parking garage and throws his suit jacket in back. It’s rush hour. Krasner is running […]

Business

Jack Bogle and Vanguard’s $5,000,000,000,000 Question

Rare is the man whose form and visage have been captured both in a larger-than-life-size bronze statue and a six-inch-tall plastic bobblehead doll. John Clifton […]

Restaurants

Get Ready for 2018 With Our Latest 50 Best Restaurants List

Right now, you can eat an entire meal at one of Philadelphia’s absolute-best restaurants for — no joke — $12. One of our top five […]

City Life

Why a Philly Whistle-Blower Is Launching a Journalism Start-Up

Even by the biblical standards of come-to-Jesus moments, the day Wendell Potter got woke was nothing short of miraculous, in the old-school, divine-intervention meaning of […]