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Pulse: 60-Second Critic: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

It’s Always Sunny in PhiladelphiaFX, Thursdays at 10 p.m. If Seinfeld and Arrested Development gave birth to a love child, it would be It’s Always […]

Pulse: 60-Second Critic: The Suzanne Roberts Theatre

The Philadelphia Theatre Company last month graduated from its cramped home at Plays and Players to the brand-new $25 million Suzanne Roberts Theatre, a 370-seat […]

In a new Philly Mag column, Sam Katz goes inside the world of our ­business movers and shakers. First up: A sit-down over Pat’s cheesesteaks with Charlie Pizzi, the CEO charged with saving Tastykake

For 93 years, Tasty Baking — known colloquially around town as Tastykake — has baked the cupcakes and pies that generations of Philadelphians have claimed […]

We know — it seems like you work all the time. But fear not: We found some local companies that make the office feel a little more like home, and that may point the way to the future

We know — it seems like you work all the time. But fear not: We found some local companies that make the office feel a […]

Good Life: Prime Finds: Totally Clutch

This glam fold-over clutch, made from buttery-soft, new-car-smelling leathers and suedes, is totally me — and the brainchild of Willingboro resident Terina McKinney, who’s added […]

Good Life: Prime Finds: Sweet Treat

I can’t bake. But I can trick Thanksgiving guests into thinking I can by making my home smell fresh-out-of-the-oven apple-pie delish with this cutie candle. […]

Best of Philly 2025: City Life

Best of Philly 2025: City Life

Our world-champion Eagles, a messy traffic stop, an unexpected councilperson, and the Delco pope

Inside Pennsbury High’s Legendary Prom: The Most Epic School Dance in America

Inside Pennsbury High’s Legendary Prom: The Most Epic School Dance in America

A six-figure budget. Hundreds of helpers. Giant art installations. A tentacled kraken. This prom is like no other.

Is your go-to breakfast as good for you as you think?

Is your go-to breakfast as good for you as you think? It’s getting to be that time of year when the temps finally start to […]

Can thousands of gritty New­ Yorkers, some displaced street gangs, a few ­terrorists, and a multimillionaire junk man with a new ­casino learn to love each other and revive the Poconos?

WITH SYMBOLISM THAT WAS RIPE AND THICK AS THE MOUNTAIN LAUREL IN JUNE, THE OLD POCONOS DIED NEAR THE END OF LAST CENTURY WITH A […]

The owner of Geno’s Steaks in South Philly, Joey Vento, started a big brouhaha by demanding that his customers order in English. But the reason why he did runs deeper than you might think

Joey Vento started a big brouhaha by demanding that his customers order in English. But the reason why he did runs deeper than you might […]

Four decades ago, one of Philadelphia’s most powerful and iconic companies looked the other way while more than 60 of its employees died of lung cancer. Now, with at least a dozen workers dead from a rare form of brain cancer, could history be repeating itself?

There is good science, and there is bad science. The distance between the two is an infinitesimal divide. THERE IS GOOD science, and there is […]

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New high-rise condos are popping up all over Center City. But when it comes to crazy days and wild nights, none will ever compare to the Dorchester

‘‘It’s the true walk of shame,” says a guy-about-town we’ll call Mr. Horndog. He’s harking back to his single days in the early ’90s, when […]

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How Two Philadelphia Tortoises Stole Our Hearts

How Two Philadelphia Tortoises Stole Our Hearts

Beloved Galapagos tortoises Mommy and Abrazzo became first-time parents — and gave their species a ray of hope.

An Oral History of the Sound of Philadelphia

An Oral History of the Sound of Philadelphia

Fifty years after founding their legendary Philadelphia International Records, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, with friends and collaborators from Thom Bell to John Oates to Patti LaBelle, look back on the musical partnership that came to define the city.

Philly is facing a murder crisis, a poverty crisis and an education crisis. Unfortunately for our new mayor, that’s not the bad news

The biggest problem facing Philadelphia wasn’t much talked about during the recent mayoral primaries. And when it did come up, the enormity of the problem […]

With smut available at the click of a mouse, how does Philly’s most storied adult theater stay in business? You might not want to know

AUGUST 3, 1984. Disco is finally and officially dead. Hair metal is in, in a big way. And the feminist movement just saw its first […]

What really scares me about putting my daughter behind the wheel

I’m sitting in my own car, in my own hometown, going less than 10 miles an hour — and I’m rigid with terror. My back […]

Good Life: Homegrown: Wrap Artists

We’ve found some of the most beautiful scarves — right here in Philadelphia Some of the most beautiful, changeable wool, satin and textured scarves come […]

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