Metropolis
A Millennial Mayor Rises in Delco
When Media mayor Bob McMahon announced last year that he’d be stepping down from the seat after 33 years, one big question immediately followed: Who […]
The Cure For Loneliness? Dining Out Alone
Listen to the audio version here: Few daily rituals are as meaningful to me — and yet as mundane — as breaking bread. In the […]
Philly’s Top Cop Talks Plummeting Homicides, Horrible Drivers, and ICE Raids
He started as a beat cop in 1986 after dropping out of Temple. Nearly 40 years later, he’s at the helm of the force at […]
Meet the Man Who Beat SEPTA and Saved the Columbus and Rizzo Statues
He came from quite literally nothing to become one of Philadelphia’s wealthiest lawyers and most prominent local Donald Trump supporters. And before jetting off to […]
Meet the Philly-Born Director Changing the Predator Universe
Dan Trachtenberg believed he’d made his very own Star Wars. It was 1984, and the three-year-old auteur had recruited his mother to hold the family […]
How Questlove Became the Defining Drummer of His Generation
The following is an excerpt from the book Backbeats: A History of Rock and Roll in Fifteen Drummers, released on November 11th. The 41st Grammy […]
Henri David Sets the Record Straight on Frank Rizzo and Gender Pronouns
He’s created jewelry for the stars at his Pine Street shop, Halloween. He’s run the same Halloween ball since LBJ was in the Oval. Here, […]
How One Store Became Ground Zero for West Philly’s Gentrification War
The song of the summer on Baltimore Avenue this year was a lament, a Greek chorus that started as a whisper and just kept getting […]
When Did Everything Become So … Disneyfied?
Listen to the audio edition here: This past year, as part of my long, self-imposed quest to check off as many boxes on the list […]
Can Mussels Save Philadelphia’s Waterways?
“Feeding time,” says Shannon Boyle, pushing back her chair and pulling her attention away from the microscope she’s been bent over for the better part […]