Since the dawn of the current millennium, city boosters have celebrated the reversal of Philadelphia’s five-decade-long population slide. The 2010 census showed the city had […]
I knew what was going on months before anyone else did. My father-in-law had been acting shifty, shooting up to New York for days at […]
When you think of Philadelphia, what’s the first image that comes to mind? The Art Museum? Independence Hall? For many of us, it’s Boathouse Row, […]
I think it was this year’s Emmys that finally broke me. I didn’t watch them, of course, because they were opposite that dreadful Eagles wild-card […]
A young man sits alone in a room, a tuba on his lap, and blows it hard, huffing and puffing to play Snedecor’s Low Étude […]
He was a Reagan/Bush guy all the way. Pals with Rizzo. But by the mid-aughts, Main Line journalist Michael Smerconish found himself throwing all his […]
My mom is a retired therapist. When I was growing up, one of my favorites of her mantras about her profession was this: “Most people’s […]
Paul Levy started the Center City District in 1991 with a mission to keep the area clean and safe. He ran the organization until the […]
It’s a random Tuesday night, and my husband, Christian, and I are doing what we typically do: bingeing a TV series du jour as we […]
In May of 2021, it was like a rapture took place in the City of Philadelphia. The buildings remained in place, and so did the […]
