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City Life

Q&A: The Creative CEO Behind This Year’s Massive Fringe Festival

     Listen to the interview edition here: Nearly two years into her job as CEO and director of FringeArts, the nonprofit organization behind Philadelphia’s […]

City Life

Coatesville’s Hiller Brothers Are Two of the Best High School Athletes in America

Colton Hiller can’t believe it. His older brother, Max, just told a visiting reporter that Colton started beating Max in basketball when Colton was in […]

City Life

The Great Philly Mag Semiquincentennial Quiz: Part 8

Welcome to this, the eighth installment of the Great Philly Mag Semiquincentennial Quiz. We’re going straight from one cosmic conflagration — the Civil War — […]

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City Life

Game On: Why Now Is the Moment for Women’s Sports in Philly

To understand why so many Philadelphians are convinced the city is about to become America’s epicenter of professional women’s sports, you need to go back […]

City Life

Share the Trail. Seriously.

     Listen to the audio edition here: It’s 8 a.m. on a sunny day, and I’m pedaling my way to work. I’m on my […]

Things to Do

10 Can’t-Miss Works at “A Nation of Artists”

There’s a time each August — somewhere between the 10th consecutive day of stultifying heat and the moment you realize you’re now sick of water […]

City Life

Philly’s Neighborhood Pharmacies Might Just Save Us. Can We Save Them?

When Brenda Dixon-Gottschild and her husband moved last year from a Chestnut Hill house to a condo in The Philadelphian near the Art Museum, she […]

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Restaurants

Philly’s Favorite Bar Owner Talks the Perfect Pour and Hating Bar TVs

Fergus “Fergie” Carey moved to Philadelphia from Dublin way back when Wilson Goode was in office in the ’80s; he opened Fergie’s Pub on the […]

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City Life

How Hoagie Heir Joey Sacco Became an OnlyFans Millionaire

So the story goes like this: Joey Sacco, now 26, was 19 and bored. He opened his phone, made a sexually explicit solo video, sent […]

City Life

Delco Export Kurt Vile Has Found His Muse — and It’s Us

Singer-songwriter, producer, and guitarist Kurt Vile, who has an official city of Philadelphia day named in his honor, is one of the chillest rock stars […]