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Celebrating the Most Talented Curtis Institute of Music Graduates

Plus, a look at the prestigious Rittenhouse school’s rising stars, including a 14-year-old who insists on remaining mononymous.


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Paul Offit vs. RFK Jr. Is the Battle of Our Times

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Candidate Crib Sheet: The Race to Replace Dwight Evans

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Why Philly Needs an Ona Judge Day

Latest Stories

Real Estate 2005: Where to Buy Now

As the frenzy abates (a bit) and the interest rates stay low (for now), buyers are facing friendly conditions indeed. But while the end of […]

Pulse: Power: They’re Building It. Will Anybody Come?

It was, to say the least, a sweet deal: The state would designate the plot of land at 17th and JFK Boulevard as a Keystone […]

Best of Philly 2005: Style

Women’s Style Bathing suits: Cameo Water Wear Forget the long lines and sloppy inventory of the department store. Single-focus Cameo simplifies this dreaded search with […]

Features: Best of Philly 2005: Beauty & Spa

Spa brand: Bluemercury                                                                           With its recent opening at the Tropicana in Atlantic City, Bluemercury is expanding its specialty apothecary-plus-spa approach. But it hasn’t lost its […]

The Best Philadelphians 2005

Liz and Jay Scott needed to raise $5 million. They didn’t have to do it. And no one would have blamed them if they decided […]

Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

Island Hopping: Kid Luxe


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.


Lowdown: Picture Perfect

Ursula Hobson Fine Art Framing, Inc.1600 Spruce Street, 215-546-7889; ursulahobson.com For almost two decades, Center City’s cognoscenti have headed to Ursula Hobson to frame everything […]

Personal Best: Lewis Wexler

When I first heard “Lewis Wexler, owner of the Wexler Gallery in Old City, former assistant vice president at Christie’s, ­expert on 20th-century decorative arts,” […]

Ragas Report: Shop Talk: Stich

Eric Fisher could be the boy next door — were it not for his $250 Terra Plana slip-ons and his black polo with the collar […]

Ragas Report: Trendspotting

Gauchos do not call their gauchos “gauchos.” That might be reason enough to avoid these pants — that they reduce an entire proud-if-impoverished people to […]

Pulse : Getaway: Where the du Ponts Sleep

Wilmington is a weekday town. That’s when business types fill its hotel rooms and happy hours, and the fluorescent lights of its bank-building skyline burn […]

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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.


Pulse: Health: A Coronary Close-Up

Perry Weinstock wasn’t sure why his patient, a 55-year-old Cherry Hill resident, was suffering chest pains severe enough to send her to the ER. She’d […]

Pulse: City Life: Feel Free to Squeeze the Melons

Thump that watermelon all you want; you’ll never know whether it’s ripe until you bring it home. Unless you buy from Mark Levin, a vendor […]

Pulse: Controversies: More, Michael?

Outside City Hall, Michael Marcavage stands behind a tarp that reads “SODOMY SEPARATES FROM HOLY GOD,” singing “Victory in Jesus” along with a crowd of […]

Best of Philly 2005: Cheesesteak Nation

It wasn’t a very tough job, and nobody had to do it. It’s the evening of Thursday, June 16th, and I’m sitting in the last […]

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