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I Wasn’t Ready For My Parent’s Dating Drama

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 […]

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50 Years of Best of Philly: City Life

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, […]

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I Don’t Know Who Anybody Is Anymore. And I Don’t Care

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 […]

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Inside the Epic Search for Philly’s Next Tuba Master

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 […]

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It’s 2024, and Michael Smerconish Still, Somehow, Refuses to Take Sides

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 […]

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Four Years After the Pandemic Began, Are We All Just Awkward Now?

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 […]

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Can This Woman Convince People to Return to Center City in Droves?

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 […]

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The Great Name Awakening: Inside the Audacious, Lucrative World of Baby Naming

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 […]

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The Brewers Building a Better — and Less Toxic — Philly Beer Scene

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 […]

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Ben Kirshner’s Plan to Transform How Pennsylvania Does Business

In February of 2022, Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel broke ground on one of the most advanced steelmaking facilities ever built in North America. When it begins […]