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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 […]

Shoppist

Can a Style-Conscious 30-Something Like Me Ever Become a Fan of QVC?

Item H-214501: Serta Pillowtop Mattress I’ve been watching QVC for four hours and 19 minutes when I call out to my husband: “Hey, babe? I […]

City Life

What’s It Like to Wear the Big Red Suit?

Santa Bernard How do you deal with skeptical kids? If a child asks me if I’m the real Santa, I usually ask, “What do you […]

City Life

Vince Fumo Would Like to Be Vince Fumo Again

The host wore his tux, and the bar was open, but anyone with eyes could see the empire eroding. State Senator Vince Fumo stood there, […]

City Life

Only You Can Fix Philly’s Philanthropy Crisis

On a Monday morning in October, in the soft-hued glow of a public-radio-station studio, a former private equity investor is making a convincing case for […]

City Life

Philanthropy in Philly: The Decade’s 10 Largest Gifts

1. $225 million Mega-philanthropists Raymond G. and Ruth C. Perelman’s 2011 naming gift created a permanent endowment for the University of Pennsylvania’s med school, known […]